Thestarroom71
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Hi everyone. I'm sure I am not the first or last of my kind to come here looking for opinions, i hope someone can help me with guidance, but I also know that I need to trust my doctors over anything.
With that being said, I have been experiencing symptoms that are confusing and my anxiety is latching onto ALS and it is something I need opinions about if anyone is willing to help.
8 months ago I began experiencing neck pain and had an mri done of my cervical spine and thoracic spine, my neurologist said it was underwhelming outside of some cervical disk bulge that he said wasnt enough to give my symptoms.
Since then I have been experiencing a malady of different aches and pains, including a small clot to which I am on eliquis for now. Including pain in my heels when standing, and pain in my hamstrings and calves and upper back.
1 month ago I started getting left arm pit achiness and neck pain that have given me chronic headaches, and 3 weeks ago I was playing guitar and my left upper arm got a weird flushed feeling and I put down the guitar and seconds later I got a piercing pain behind my left shoulder blade to which I originally thought heart attack but got that ruled out.
Aside of all this my same tricep has been twitching nearly daily, with any kind of tricep activity or upper arm activity at all my tricep will twitch for days.
Fast forward to my EMG 2 weeks ago, nerve study was clean and my EMG was clean outside of the left tricep, the dr said it could be related to my cervical discs.
My neuro wants to redo the cervical mri and brain mri, but at this point I'm terrified about ALS because the presentation is so widely varied in each different case.
If it is a pinched nerve, I havent been getting much tingling or numbness or shooting pains typically attached. I just have a deep achiness from the armpit region and the chronic tricep twitching. No twitching anywhere else outside of my right eyelid.
I also am afraid to exercise because I'm scared to aggravate whatever is going on. I also know that pinched nerves can cause muscle weakness or atrophy, which as far as I know I dont have yet. Definitely feel sensitivity in my tricep when exercising.
Does anyone have any guidance? I'm a lonely person and I need help figuring out my next steps.
This is highly unlikely to be ALS at this point?
With that being said, I have been experiencing symptoms that are confusing and my anxiety is latching onto ALS and it is something I need opinions about if anyone is willing to help.
8 months ago I began experiencing neck pain and had an mri done of my cervical spine and thoracic spine, my neurologist said it was underwhelming outside of some cervical disk bulge that he said wasnt enough to give my symptoms.
Since then I have been experiencing a malady of different aches and pains, including a small clot to which I am on eliquis for now. Including pain in my heels when standing, and pain in my hamstrings and calves and upper back.
1 month ago I started getting left arm pit achiness and neck pain that have given me chronic headaches, and 3 weeks ago I was playing guitar and my left upper arm got a weird flushed feeling and I put down the guitar and seconds later I got a piercing pain behind my left shoulder blade to which I originally thought heart attack but got that ruled out.
Aside of all this my same tricep has been twitching nearly daily, with any kind of tricep activity or upper arm activity at all my tricep will twitch for days.
Fast forward to my EMG 2 weeks ago, nerve study was clean and my EMG was clean outside of the left tricep, the dr said it could be related to my cervical discs.
My neuro wants to redo the cervical mri and brain mri, but at this point I'm terrified about ALS because the presentation is so widely varied in each different case.
If it is a pinched nerve, I havent been getting much tingling or numbness or shooting pains typically attached. I just have a deep achiness from the armpit region and the chronic tricep twitching. No twitching anywhere else outside of my right eyelid.
I also am afraid to exercise because I'm scared to aggravate whatever is going on. I also know that pinched nerves can cause muscle weakness or atrophy, which as far as I know I dont have yet. Definitely feel sensitivity in my tricep when exercising.
Does anyone have any guidance? I'm a lonely person and I need help figuring out my next steps.
This is highly unlikely to be ALS at this point?