Miggy87
Member
- Joined
- Nov 29, 2020
- Messages
- 19
- Reason
- Learn about ALS
- Diagnosis
- 00/0000
- Country
- US
- State
- CA
- City
- San Francisco
It was pure hell for the last year and a half . The twitches made me go into an anxiety frenzy that made things even worse then they probably should have . At one point I twitched 24/7 specially in my calves . Muscle pain and all sort of weird paresthesias .
COVID only made things worse .
Well aside from having very low vitamin d
It turns out my testosterone levels were super crazy low . Which affected my muscles on the form of slowly losing muscle mass but not strength .
Since December was prescribed vitamin D supplements and medication to boost testosterone, not only do I feel good now but twitches basically are coming to a halt . Went to the gym first time in a very long time and I seem to be doing ok felt good to exercise .
I had neck issues and pain but it was confirmed by an oral surgeon dentist last month that I had TMJ and that’s a whole separate issue but someone I managed to link that to my twitches a while back and fueled my fears .
Things I thought I had over the last year , ALS , Parkinson’s , brain cancer. Turned out it was something so simple hell even my sex drive seems to be high right now I guess low testosterone really made my life misearable .
My phone has this website as top most visited website because I spent a lot of time hours a day reading posts that dated back to 2008 . What a waste of time but at the same it’s nearly imposible to control a fear /anxiety . Today was my first day back at work full time in over a year because I was too scared to work because I thought my ALS would progress faster . Now I’m stuck with 7 life insurances I had taken out I’ve the last year but life is good
COVID only made things worse .
Well aside from having very low vitamin d
It turns out my testosterone levels were super crazy low . Which affected my muscles on the form of slowly losing muscle mass but not strength .
Since December was prescribed vitamin D supplements and medication to boost testosterone, not only do I feel good now but twitches basically are coming to a halt . Went to the gym first time in a very long time and I seem to be doing ok felt good to exercise .
I had neck issues and pain but it was confirmed by an oral surgeon dentist last month that I had TMJ and that’s a whole separate issue but someone I managed to link that to my twitches a while back and fueled my fears .
Things I thought I had over the last year , ALS , Parkinson’s , brain cancer. Turned out it was something so simple hell even my sex drive seems to be high right now I guess low testosterone really made my life misearable .
My phone has this website as top most visited website because I spent a lot of time hours a day reading posts that dated back to 2008 . What a waste of time but at the same it’s nearly imposible to control a fear /anxiety . Today was my first day back at work full time in over a year because I was too scared to work because I thought my ALS would progress faster . Now I’m stuck with 7 life insurances I had taken out I’ve the last year but life is good