brendon
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Hello,
I've been trying to put off posting here. Like many here, i've read and read and read. Medical sites, aboutbfs, and of course this site. I've gotten to the point where my previously diagnosed anxiety is making me lose sleep and worry uncontrollably throughout the day.
I am a 24 year old male. I am overweight, and drink a lot of diet coke. I abuse alcohol.
With that out of the way, I first noticed a few twitches sometime in May. They quickly spread across my body, head to toe, even my tongue and scalp.
I went to my doctor and he did an exam, and told me everything was normal. He did the usual strength pushing tests and stuff, looked at my tongue and stuff. Only problem was that this was early in the morning, and I wasn't twitching at all. Told me to come back if I still had them and they were bothering me in a few weeks.
They kept spreading, mostly in my calves which twitch almost constantly all over them. I went back, he did more tests and said he thought I was fine but that I could go to the neuro if I wanted to get full closure.
I went a month later (the 13th of this month), and he did a bunch more strength tests and asked questions and stuff. But the appointment was at 8 am, and of course I had no twitches. Told me I was fine.
Went back to my gp for a follow up, and he gave me some anxiety meds.
A couple days ago, I noticed some significant muscle differences in my left hand. Right below the thumb there is a deep indentation that is not present on the right hand. At the base of the thumb there is a lot of baggy skin where on my right, there is only muscle.
Examining my hands from the back, the valley between my left thumb and forefinger is much deeper than my right, and there is a small muscle twitch that is literally in rhythm with my heartbeat. There are several dents in the muscle of the fat part of your palm below the thumb that aren't there on my right hand.
My fingers on my left hand tremble when I extend them. It isn't as easy to extend them as my right hand. My ring finger and thumb particularly.
Most of the time when at rest, there are feelings like buzzing or very faint twitches at the base of my thumb and between the thumb and forefinger. They are not visible.
My anxiety is through the roof. I know the statistics. I've read the posts. I think the only thing that may ease my mind is an emg, but both my doctor and neuro have said that I'm fine, they never even saw any of my twitches.
One other interesting thing to note is that when flexed, there's a muscle on the outside of my right thigh that just goes like crazy, it's like a twitch that only activates when i flex.
It's affecting me profoundly. I woke up at 4:30am this morning and just laid there hyperventilating, sweating, and having bad thoughts.
i don't know what to do. Thank you for your time reading this. I do not mean to be disrespectful of you at all and hope I did not offend.
here are a couple pictures of my hands for reference:
right
http://imgur.com/QagazHg
left
http://imgur.com/5h5cB4e
right
http://imgur.com/JnuD6zS
left
http://imgur.com/DUUtUZG
I've been trying to put off posting here. Like many here, i've read and read and read. Medical sites, aboutbfs, and of course this site. I've gotten to the point where my previously diagnosed anxiety is making me lose sleep and worry uncontrollably throughout the day.
I am a 24 year old male. I am overweight, and drink a lot of diet coke. I abuse alcohol.
With that out of the way, I first noticed a few twitches sometime in May. They quickly spread across my body, head to toe, even my tongue and scalp.
I went to my doctor and he did an exam, and told me everything was normal. He did the usual strength pushing tests and stuff, looked at my tongue and stuff. Only problem was that this was early in the morning, and I wasn't twitching at all. Told me to come back if I still had them and they were bothering me in a few weeks.
They kept spreading, mostly in my calves which twitch almost constantly all over them. I went back, he did more tests and said he thought I was fine but that I could go to the neuro if I wanted to get full closure.
I went a month later (the 13th of this month), and he did a bunch more strength tests and asked questions and stuff. But the appointment was at 8 am, and of course I had no twitches. Told me I was fine.
Went back to my gp for a follow up, and he gave me some anxiety meds.
A couple days ago, I noticed some significant muscle differences in my left hand. Right below the thumb there is a deep indentation that is not present on the right hand. At the base of the thumb there is a lot of baggy skin where on my right, there is only muscle.
Examining my hands from the back, the valley between my left thumb and forefinger is much deeper than my right, and there is a small muscle twitch that is literally in rhythm with my heartbeat. There are several dents in the muscle of the fat part of your palm below the thumb that aren't there on my right hand.
My fingers on my left hand tremble when I extend them. It isn't as easy to extend them as my right hand. My ring finger and thumb particularly.
Most of the time when at rest, there are feelings like buzzing or very faint twitches at the base of my thumb and between the thumb and forefinger. They are not visible.
My anxiety is through the roof. I know the statistics. I've read the posts. I think the only thing that may ease my mind is an emg, but both my doctor and neuro have said that I'm fine, they never even saw any of my twitches.
One other interesting thing to note is that when flexed, there's a muscle on the outside of my right thigh that just goes like crazy, it's like a twitch that only activates when i flex.
It's affecting me profoundly. I woke up at 4:30am this morning and just laid there hyperventilating, sweating, and having bad thoughts.
i don't know what to do. Thank you for your time reading this. I do not mean to be disrespectful of you at all and hope I did not offend.
here are a couple pictures of my hands for reference:
right
http://imgur.com/QagazHg
left
http://imgur.com/5h5cB4e
right
http://imgur.com/JnuD6zS
left
http://imgur.com/DUUtUZG
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