Zaphoon
Extremely helpful member
- Joined
- Aug 2, 2008
- Messages
- 2,857
- Reason
- DX UMND/PLS
- Diagnosis
- 08/2011
- Country
- US
- State
- Missouri
- City
- Springfield
I am convinced I have a Terminal Twitch Disorder (TTD). I didn't know a thing about twitches, why they occurred or what harm, if any, they might be doing to my body until I heard it rumored they are an early, mid, and late stage symptom of ALS.
I have employed Dr. Google to figure out what ALS is all about and how my twitches play into it all. While searching various databases of varying degrees of repute, I have also been keeping a careful log of my terminal twitch disorder. In one hour alone, I counted 867! In one day, I counted a staggering 21,986 twitches! (I have to confess, that count may be off a few. (Icould have counted the same twitch twice.)
As I read web page after web page, I further discovered that twitches are a direct cause of tongue atrophy. Into the mirror I began to gaze, hour after hour with my tongue protruding from my face. I got out my magnifying glass to aid me in this examination of my tongue. There they were, the little devils! Twitches in my tongue!
Why, I could not hold my tongue still at all! No wonder choclate milk was losing its flavor! By the way, during these hours of tongue examination, I also experienced WEAKNESS! Yes, tongue weakness! Another sign of having a TTD!
Well, my worry increased substantially when cramps came into the picture. Yes! Cramps! I discovered that they, too, were an early, mid and late stage sign of ALS and I had them in my legs, now. Well, at least I think they are cramps. In either case, I'm sure my cramps are as terminal a thing as my twitches.
As part of my carefully documented journal, I have also made regular measurements of various limbs. My findings in this category are causing me further alarm as I have found huge differences in the size of my thighs from left to right! Shortly after this remarkable discovery, I have started to limp! Yes! My gate must have changed. Even though there hasn't been any weakness yet, I know it is coming!
I've heard that doctors do a variety of test to "rule out" everything else it could be but I am saving them the trouble because I already know what I have. Thank you all for feeling sorry for me and positng your kind words of sympathy.
Oops! I just felt a twitch starting in my cheeck. Now I am developing full-blown bulbar symptoms. I can already feel my tongue getting strange and I couldn't just now say an "s" right!
P.S. (the disclaimer)
The preceeding is not a factual account of any person or persons and is fictitional in nature but does, in part, represent my own character to some slight degree of accuracy.
Zaphoon
I have employed Dr. Google to figure out what ALS is all about and how my twitches play into it all. While searching various databases of varying degrees of repute, I have also been keeping a careful log of my terminal twitch disorder. In one hour alone, I counted 867! In one day, I counted a staggering 21,986 twitches! (I have to confess, that count may be off a few. (Icould have counted the same twitch twice.)
As I read web page after web page, I further discovered that twitches are a direct cause of tongue atrophy. Into the mirror I began to gaze, hour after hour with my tongue protruding from my face. I got out my magnifying glass to aid me in this examination of my tongue. There they were, the little devils! Twitches in my tongue!
Why, I could not hold my tongue still at all! No wonder choclate milk was losing its flavor! By the way, during these hours of tongue examination, I also experienced WEAKNESS! Yes, tongue weakness! Another sign of having a TTD!
Well, my worry increased substantially when cramps came into the picture. Yes! Cramps! I discovered that they, too, were an early, mid and late stage sign of ALS and I had them in my legs, now. Well, at least I think they are cramps. In either case, I'm sure my cramps are as terminal a thing as my twitches.
As part of my carefully documented journal, I have also made regular measurements of various limbs. My findings in this category are causing me further alarm as I have found huge differences in the size of my thighs from left to right! Shortly after this remarkable discovery, I have started to limp! Yes! My gate must have changed. Even though there hasn't been any weakness yet, I know it is coming!
I've heard that doctors do a variety of test to "rule out" everything else it could be but I am saving them the trouble because I already know what I have. Thank you all for feeling sorry for me and positng your kind words of sympathy.
Oops! I just felt a twitch starting in my cheeck. Now I am developing full-blown bulbar symptoms. I can already feel my tongue getting strange and I couldn't just now say an "s" right!
P.S. (the disclaimer)
The preceeding is not a factual account of any person or persons and is fictitional in nature but does, in part, represent my own character to some slight degree of accuracy.
Zaphoon