Chikid
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- Learn about ALS
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- Illinois
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- Mount Prospect
Hello All, I would first like to thank you for your time and any responses I may get. I'm honored and humbled to be here. I'd like to preface this post with a disclaimer; I am a well documented hypochondriac. Although this disease is not nearly as traumatic as some of you with motor neuron disease, I suffer every day from mental anguish and it has affected every inch of my life. That was a bit deep, sorry for the gloom and doom.
I'm a 26 year old male with severe anxiety and panic disorder. 10 weeks ago I started having some symptoms that started in my right hand but have since moved around. My initial symptom was pain in the elbow, I mean bad pain. A few weeks later I had a tremor in my right thumb. It would move as if to a rhythm, non stop all day. Of course my search for answers led me to Parkinson's disease which I was convinced I had. (Hypochondria).
3 weeks later my thumb stopped tremoring and I was ready to move on. Then the first fasiculation was felt in my shoulder. It made the whole muscle move. I brushed it off but for the next 2 days it continued. Then my arms twitched. My bicep and triceps. Then my back, my legs and toes, my eyelids and forehead and cheeks - and yes even my butt (sorry I'm just trying to explain).. these twitches last a second. They 'pop' and move the muscle and then go away. One second in my arm, one second in my leg, then my back. Literally all day, ALL over.
I went to doc and did bloodwork and she cleared me of any electrolyte issues and laughed at me and told me to relax and go home. (She knows I'm a hypochondriac), and then a week ago I noticed my right ring finger does not lift up as high as the rest of my fingers. It gets 'stuck' and wont lift any higher. It gets about 3/4 of the way and then stops. I broke that hand twice boxing, but I only sprained that finger, and broke my pinky twice. Not sure if this couldve damaged my hand as it happened 8 years ago. After countless hours of reading this site and Google, I'm convinced I have ALS. I don't want to offend anyone here and I'm trying to be as respectful as possible.
I am a competitive weightlifter. I am I'm the gym lifting 6 days a week and also do cardio 6 days a week. I have not noticed any weakness at all, nor any slurring or swallowing issues. I have been relentlessly checking and doing strength tests of all kinds for 10 weeks waiting for weakness.
Despite my efforts to reassure myself that I am not any weaker I am convinced I have this terrible disease. My friends father is a neurologist and I briefly asked him about it and without any exam he scoffed at me and said I would not be able to lift weights if I had ALS.. and would see changes in 10 weeks and advised me to get in anxiety medicine for the "Fasciculations" and I'm fine.
I don't dont feel fine, I am suffering greatly and have not worked in 3 weeks. My life is falling apart. I am convinced this is ALS fasciculations and a dropped finger.
Any advice or insight is highly appreciated.
Please forgive me if I have offended anyone.
Thank you
I'm a 26 year old male with severe anxiety and panic disorder. 10 weeks ago I started having some symptoms that started in my right hand but have since moved around. My initial symptom was pain in the elbow, I mean bad pain. A few weeks later I had a tremor in my right thumb. It would move as if to a rhythm, non stop all day. Of course my search for answers led me to Parkinson's disease which I was convinced I had. (Hypochondria).
3 weeks later my thumb stopped tremoring and I was ready to move on. Then the first fasiculation was felt in my shoulder. It made the whole muscle move. I brushed it off but for the next 2 days it continued. Then my arms twitched. My bicep and triceps. Then my back, my legs and toes, my eyelids and forehead and cheeks - and yes even my butt (sorry I'm just trying to explain).. these twitches last a second. They 'pop' and move the muscle and then go away. One second in my arm, one second in my leg, then my back. Literally all day, ALL over.
I went to doc and did bloodwork and she cleared me of any electrolyte issues and laughed at me and told me to relax and go home. (She knows I'm a hypochondriac), and then a week ago I noticed my right ring finger does not lift up as high as the rest of my fingers. It gets 'stuck' and wont lift any higher. It gets about 3/4 of the way and then stops. I broke that hand twice boxing, but I only sprained that finger, and broke my pinky twice. Not sure if this couldve damaged my hand as it happened 8 years ago. After countless hours of reading this site and Google, I'm convinced I have ALS. I don't want to offend anyone here and I'm trying to be as respectful as possible.
I am a competitive weightlifter. I am I'm the gym lifting 6 days a week and also do cardio 6 days a week. I have not noticed any weakness at all, nor any slurring or swallowing issues. I have been relentlessly checking and doing strength tests of all kinds for 10 weeks waiting for weakness.
Despite my efforts to reassure myself that I am not any weaker I am convinced I have this terrible disease. My friends father is a neurologist and I briefly asked him about it and without any exam he scoffed at me and said I would not be able to lift weights if I had ALS.. and would see changes in 10 weeks and advised me to get in anxiety medicine for the "Fasciculations" and I'm fine.
I don't dont feel fine, I am suffering greatly and have not worked in 3 weeks. My life is falling apart. I am convinced this is ALS fasciculations and a dropped finger.
Any advice or insight is highly appreciated.
Please forgive me if I have offended anyone.
Thank you
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