Just my oppinion.
IMHO UNCLA was talking about Benign fasciculation syndrome, that presents with fasciculations, temporary weakness and so on. I think his post is really good because many peoply only visit this site to find out something about their twitching and the only thing the find is ALS...so it could help them, if they dont have any other symptoms
About twitching, I thought its impossible to have twitching BEFORE any weakness, since twitch is a result of muscle reinerrvation? Also all ALS specialist think so. Too twitching on the whole body isnt for ALS - here it usually starts in limb and spread to entire body. My neuro told me twitch without any other symptoms (weakness, reflexes, coordination, atrophy..) is bening. Im twitching for a few months and hope its BFS, but of course Im affraid of ALS and every day excersises - 100 press-ups, sit ups...Im hypochondriac so I check myself every second.
I wanted to say that the meaning of the post is good - Dont let new visitors (without DX) think they have ALS if they are ONLY twitching. Only 6,7% of ALS patiens has fascics as first sign, but docs find weakness at least in one limb that these people dont notice.
On many and many places we can read that twitching alone is benign, so why scare people who maybe have this only from anxiety? (I was DXd with panic "disease" and anxiety that they say cause my twitching and tremors - its worse when Im nervous and stressed).
