Rechellef
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I am new here and am FINALLY seeing a neurologist, but wanted to get a feel for the experience of others.
After [failed] surgery to repair my left ankle joint, I knew they had damaged the nerves in my foot and ankle, so any problems in that leg was always seen as a result of the surgical damage, which included mild but chronic fasiculations .
However, over the past 2-3 months I started experiencing horrific muscle spasms in the left leg including the outer calf muscle which would turn my foot inward and my toes down.
I am not magnesium, potassium, or calcium deficient and keep myself well hydrated. This has progressed in addition to vastly increased fasiculations in duration as well as strength (we are talking hundreds a minute every day, all day).
With that said, I just started experiencing weakness in that same leg (I have a hard time pressing down or standing on my tip toes) and my leg gave out on me this past Sunday. At the same time, I started having occasional spasms in my right leg as well as mild fasiculations with no weakness yet were as I never had these symptoms in the right leg before.
My reflexes are non-existent in both ankles although I have no idea why my non-injured ankle has no reflexes.
I am scheduled for an EMG at the end of the month to get some sort of answer. I am a gymnastics coach and active 50 year old woman, so this is very unlike me and apart from post surgical weakness (which was 3 years ago), I have never experienced this sort of weakness in this leg before. I should also mention that although the spasms and fasiculations occur around the clock, they are particularly bad at night and I can barely sleep most nights.
I am not scared of whether or not I have ALS because until I knew I can't let it worry me and I am certainly not going to self diagnose. However, I just wanted to see if others have had the same symptoms before being diagnosed.
Thank you in advance for your help!!
After [failed] surgery to repair my left ankle joint, I knew they had damaged the nerves in my foot and ankle, so any problems in that leg was always seen as a result of the surgical damage, which included mild but chronic fasiculations .
However, over the past 2-3 months I started experiencing horrific muscle spasms in the left leg including the outer calf muscle which would turn my foot inward and my toes down.
I am not magnesium, potassium, or calcium deficient and keep myself well hydrated. This has progressed in addition to vastly increased fasiculations in duration as well as strength (we are talking hundreds a minute every day, all day).
With that said, I just started experiencing weakness in that same leg (I have a hard time pressing down or standing on my tip toes) and my leg gave out on me this past Sunday. At the same time, I started having occasional spasms in my right leg as well as mild fasiculations with no weakness yet were as I never had these symptoms in the right leg before.
My reflexes are non-existent in both ankles although I have no idea why my non-injured ankle has no reflexes.
I am scheduled for an EMG at the end of the month to get some sort of answer. I am a gymnastics coach and active 50 year old woman, so this is very unlike me and apart from post surgical weakness (which was 3 years ago), I have never experienced this sort of weakness in this leg before. I should also mention that although the spasms and fasiculations occur around the clock, they are particularly bad at night and I can barely sleep most nights.
I am not scared of whether or not I have ALS because until I knew I can't let it worry me and I am certainly not going to self diagnose. However, I just wanted to see if others have had the same symptoms before being diagnosed.
Thank you in advance for your help!!
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