cswass
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I have had major health anxiety since I got Covid in January of 2021. I know that’s the first thing that should keep me out of here. Trust me I tried. Over the last summer my left middle finger began twitching. It went away and then my right thumb started twitching a few weeks later. It eventually went away. At this time I was playing a ton of golf (like 5 times a week) and changed it up to that.
The end of September my wife and I watched Father Stu. I had heard of ALS but never new much about it so I looked it up. Let me just say my life has been turned upside down ever since. I went to my GP and told him what was going on and he said let’s do an EMG. It was done the second week of November. The earliest I could get back into my GP for the results was last Friday. He said I have very mild carpal tunnel and very mild ulnar nerve entrapment.
I have no pain. I have the whole body twitches like all the other people who think they might have it. The only difference is that I have a dirty EMG and they have clean ones. I have read the thread from SteveO who had the same issues and was eventually diagnosed with ALS. My GP doesn’t see the need to evaluate any further. I don’t have a copy of my EMG. I plan on getting it Friday.
Everyone around me thinks I am nuts. I probably am! I have no clinical weekends that I know of. No atrophy. Just horrendous fasciculations all over. I have lost some weight over the last week and a half which has me concerned that maybe muscles are starting to water away. Any help/advice will be welcomed. Thank you and God bless.
The end of September my wife and I watched Father Stu. I had heard of ALS but never new much about it so I looked it up. Let me just say my life has been turned upside down ever since. I went to my GP and told him what was going on and he said let’s do an EMG. It was done the second week of November. The earliest I could get back into my GP for the results was last Friday. He said I have very mild carpal tunnel and very mild ulnar nerve entrapment.
I have no pain. I have the whole body twitches like all the other people who think they might have it. The only difference is that I have a dirty EMG and they have clean ones. I have read the thread from SteveO who had the same issues and was eventually diagnosed with ALS. My GP doesn’t see the need to evaluate any further. I don’t have a copy of my EMG. I plan on getting it Friday.
Everyone around me thinks I am nuts. I probably am! I have no clinical weekends that I know of. No atrophy. Just horrendous fasciculations all over. I have lost some weight over the last week and a half which has me concerned that maybe muscles are starting to water away. Any help/advice will be welcomed. Thank you and God bless.
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