jmendozd90
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Hello!! I’m really concerned I hope you can help me with your thoughts. I’m 28 years old. I started to have dysphagia in 2016; it hasn’t progressed … I just feel that when I eat solid food, some pieces get stuck in the throat, so I have to swallow twice in order to get things down. I don’t choke. I don’t have problems with liquids. I don’t have problems with saliva; but I have to clear my throat several times during certain times (Not all day). Sometimes I have hoarseness in my voice.
I had a nose job on May 2018. I noticed that I couldn’t make a facial expression like if I were smelling something without having tremors on that zone. I thought that It was because of the surgery. On July I had a chin surgery (aesthetic) But this month, I noticed something else. When I try to fill my cheeks with air, my lips won’t stop to have tremors. My upper lip seems to be having an earthquake. Nevertheless, I can keep the air inside; my cheeks are strong; no air escaping from the nose. Just that worrying tremor that makes me think my lips are getting weak or cranial nerve damage.
I also have tongue twitches sometimes; I can feel them, and when I open my mouth I can see them in the mirror, but they disappear after 3 o 4 twitches. I have widespread fasciculations in my body, but I always have had them since child; so that doesn’t scare me. I don’t have weakness nor atrophy. I’m scared I have bulbar onset. What do you think? My ALS fears came back because last Friday I felt a different dysphagia, a little more severe and since then, I can’t stop thinking on ALS, I don’t want to eat because I don’t want to feel the dysphagia.
Thank you so much!!
I had a nose job on May 2018. I noticed that I couldn’t make a facial expression like if I were smelling something without having tremors on that zone. I thought that It was because of the surgery. On July I had a chin surgery (aesthetic) But this month, I noticed something else. When I try to fill my cheeks with air, my lips won’t stop to have tremors. My upper lip seems to be having an earthquake. Nevertheless, I can keep the air inside; my cheeks are strong; no air escaping from the nose. Just that worrying tremor that makes me think my lips are getting weak or cranial nerve damage.
I also have tongue twitches sometimes; I can feel them, and when I open my mouth I can see them in the mirror, but they disappear after 3 o 4 twitches. I have widespread fasciculations in my body, but I always have had them since child; so that doesn’t scare me. I don’t have weakness nor atrophy. I’m scared I have bulbar onset. What do you think? My ALS fears came back because last Friday I felt a different dysphagia, a little more severe and since then, I can’t stop thinking on ALS, I don’t want to eat because I don’t want to feel the dysphagia.
Thank you so much!!