Mikemike12
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Hi everybody, thanks for taking the time to read this and any input given.
Some context, I’m a 23 year old male, non smoker, non drinker.
For the past week or so I’ve been experiencing some kind of weakness of my arm. Its as if my arm gets tired more a quickly than the other arm and i can’t explain why. I did nothing to set it off in terms of injury or exercise. I just randomly noticed the weakness.
I can still use the arm regular and can use force with my arm like if I'm lifting something its just that it’ll feel tired sooner than what’s normal. It’ll also start to have pain in my elbow, inner wrist and on my main forearm muscle.
I’ll also feel some pain/soreness on my top/outer forearm muscle if i flex and i feel as if i’m having a hard time flexing my tricep compared to my left arm thats fine.
My doctor today told me to just start off with stretching exercises and in a couple weeks if i get no improvement we’ll go from there.
I’m also wondering if this could just be some kind of health anxiety thing since when this first happened, i was going through a lot of stress and anxiety from a cancer scare from something found on a CT scan for something unrelated. It got bad enough to where i often couldn’t sleep and every little pain or ache was cancer somehow.
But I don’t know, doesn’t seem like arm soreness could be from anxiety.
I guess my question is, does this sound like ALS symptoms at all? Does it sound like weakness from ALS because I’ve never experienced spontaneous soreness before and it does have me pretty nervous.
I appreciate any advice or knowledge, thank you for reading this and for your time.
Some context, I’m a 23 year old male, non smoker, non drinker.
For the past week or so I’ve been experiencing some kind of weakness of my arm. Its as if my arm gets tired more a quickly than the other arm and i can’t explain why. I did nothing to set it off in terms of injury or exercise. I just randomly noticed the weakness.
I can still use the arm regular and can use force with my arm like if I'm lifting something its just that it’ll feel tired sooner than what’s normal. It’ll also start to have pain in my elbow, inner wrist and on my main forearm muscle.
I’ll also feel some pain/soreness on my top/outer forearm muscle if i flex and i feel as if i’m having a hard time flexing my tricep compared to my left arm thats fine.
My doctor today told me to just start off with stretching exercises and in a couple weeks if i get no improvement we’ll go from there.
I’m also wondering if this could just be some kind of health anxiety thing since when this first happened, i was going through a lot of stress and anxiety from a cancer scare from something found on a CT scan for something unrelated. It got bad enough to where i often couldn’t sleep and every little pain or ache was cancer somehow.
But I don’t know, doesn’t seem like arm soreness could be from anxiety.
I guess my question is, does this sound like ALS symptoms at all? Does it sound like weakness from ALS because I’ve never experienced spontaneous soreness before and it does have me pretty nervous.
I appreciate any advice or knowledge, thank you for reading this and for your time.