Running into things
Hi Lisa:
I also was running into things on a daily basis...doors, walls, furniture, and when I walked outside I was falling against building walls! Finally got myself a walker last November to use outdoors...and inside I walk hanging onto furniture. I've also found if I walk with my feet pointed outwards...I don't fall against stuff! he he
We really think its from the muscles on the outsides of the legs not working to hold me upright.
I have fasciculations mostly in my legs, although the neuro did witness them also in my arms and tongue after my nerve testing and EMG, which by the way, were normal.
I have major leg pains at night, from the spasms and cramps...and have just been started on baclofen, on the advice of people here. I'm also on gabapentin....and will gradually increase the dosage of that from 900 mg/day to 1800 mg....depending on how the baclofen does. I have been having muscle weakness in my upper legs for a year now, trouble doing stairs, getting off toilet, out of chair etc.
I go to my neuro on the 22nd of this month in Toronto, ON (I also have frontotemporal dementia), and hopefully she will order some further tests to see if we can get some sort of diagnosis before too long.
I've learned to just take each day as it comes....and enjoy what we can!