treyo09
Member
- Joined
- Jun 30, 2008
- Messages
- 16
- Reason
- Learn about ALS
- Country
- US
- State
- tennessee
- City
- kingsport
hi guys im new here and need some help i have really bad anxiety and just got on medicine for it about 4 weeks ago but anyways i have been having alot and i mean alt of fasciculations all over my body all day long for about 6 months or longer and they have gotten worse but i have had no weakness at all but the one in my lower leg never goes away it moves constantly all day it justb movin i dont even feel it half of the time ill just look and its movin and the one in my other leg just above my knee moves and jumpps so bad u can see it through my clothes and some days its bad and some days its not there but latley that has not gone away but i get them all over there in my arms theyfeel like little bubble feelings and somne just feel like little jerking feelings and ill lok and they jumpind but i went to the neuro yesterday and he did two tests a ncv wich was normal and a emg and the emg had fasciculations all over but he said that nothing else was wrong but the fasciculations on the emg but he told me i did not have als and i should not worry and he said i had bfs my question is is this bad i had alot of fasciculations in my emg dose that mean i have als and if ive had fasciculations for this long wouldnt i have shown some kind of weakness by now but anyways im freaking out cuz he said he is going to send me to a als specialists why would he do that if he dosent think its als and i asked him that and he said hes doin it so i can get reassurence that this is not als cuz im frekin out so much but i dont belive that but anyways if my ncv was normal is this a good sign and if it was als wouldnt it be not normal and if there was nothing else in the emg but just fasciculatios all over than is this a good sign and can bfs show up on a emg