I hope you can help me.
Back in the late summer I developed a twitch on the left side of my left calve. When it started it had a rhythm to it. It wasn't constantly there. It last a month. They my left eyelid twitch for another couple of weeks followed by my right temple. Sometime in between I had limb twitches when I would try to fall asleep. One of my fingers would twitch or my shoulder would jump or leg. Then that went away. Then in late September I started feeling something moving, bubbling on the bottom of my left foot. I never saw it but could feel it. Sometimes it felt like something was rushing inside like blood, other times it would be pulsing fast. One and a half months later my right foot started with the exact same sypmtoms. I also get this feeling that someone is taking a fine tip pencil and lightly touching parts of my feet even my toes. First the foot was the pulsing thing in one area then the pencil feeling everywhere on the feet and the pulsing stuff everywhere on the feet. Then I started feeling lightheaded and that lasted two months. I also started having strong twitches on my left buttocks. Would come and go.
I had a emg on my right foot for cramping in mid October and it was fine. Got worried about my left foot still pulsing or whatever it is because it is hard to describe so I had another EMG mid Nov. on my left foot which was fine. She even stuck a needle in my left buttocks. I was still scared and had another emg done on the left side early Dec. because I started getting twitch on my quad and left side calf again. Normal he said. He said (ALS specialist at hospital) that he had never heard of the sensations I described regarding my feet. Late Dec and Now my symptoms are
Calve twitches come and go on both left AND right leg. Area around the calves twitch, too. The area around my ankle I will feel something. The calves are like rumbles and sometimes just one twitch. Quad twitches both sides. Right side like worms left side just a twitch. Buttock twitches on both sides. Back of top left leg twitch, too. My left shoulder gives off a single twitch at least once a day. Sometimes my bottom lip has a single twitch and finally my tongue will twitch once when I am trying to fall asleep. Also the pencil like feeling on my feet has now started in both of my hands. My left hand will close twitch a could of times a day.
I am worried about the recent changes in twitches. My feet don't bother me as much now as the other twitches. I can have a twitch in my right calve then suddenly my right quad back to my left quad. It will happen in a matter of seconds. Or sometimes it is just a twitch in the left calve and thats it but it happens everyday. I have heard that als twitches migrate. Is this migrating. I can't understand why I twitch in random places consistantly but all over.
The one neuro lady who did one of three emgs said the foot thing would resolve. When I told her about the right foot doing teh same thing one and half months later she said we covered that with the emg that was done on the right side. The other neuro wasn't worried about my foot thing and so of dimissed it. All my physical exams (three were fine). One neuro wanted to put me on neurtontin thinking this is rls but this was before the bodywide twitching. Please can anyone offer any advice. I am 37 year old female with kids. I have had alot of anxiety in my life with death of aunt in the summer and divorce. I would like to say that this is all a part of it but with twitches that go like this and on both sides it really has me worried. Thanks.
Back in the late summer I developed a twitch on the left side of my left calve. When it started it had a rhythm to it. It wasn't constantly there. It last a month. They my left eyelid twitch for another couple of weeks followed by my right temple. Sometime in between I had limb twitches when I would try to fall asleep. One of my fingers would twitch or my shoulder would jump or leg. Then that went away. Then in late September I started feeling something moving, bubbling on the bottom of my left foot. I never saw it but could feel it. Sometimes it felt like something was rushing inside like blood, other times it would be pulsing fast. One and a half months later my right foot started with the exact same sypmtoms. I also get this feeling that someone is taking a fine tip pencil and lightly touching parts of my feet even my toes. First the foot was the pulsing thing in one area then the pencil feeling everywhere on the feet and the pulsing stuff everywhere on the feet. Then I started feeling lightheaded and that lasted two months. I also started having strong twitches on my left buttocks. Would come and go.
I had a emg on my right foot for cramping in mid October and it was fine. Got worried about my left foot still pulsing or whatever it is because it is hard to describe so I had another EMG mid Nov. on my left foot which was fine. She even stuck a needle in my left buttocks. I was still scared and had another emg done on the left side early Dec. because I started getting twitch on my quad and left side calf again. Normal he said. He said (ALS specialist at hospital) that he had never heard of the sensations I described regarding my feet. Late Dec and Now my symptoms are
Calve twitches come and go on both left AND right leg. Area around the calves twitch, too. The area around my ankle I will feel something. The calves are like rumbles and sometimes just one twitch. Quad twitches both sides. Right side like worms left side just a twitch. Buttock twitches on both sides. Back of top left leg twitch, too. My left shoulder gives off a single twitch at least once a day. Sometimes my bottom lip has a single twitch and finally my tongue will twitch once when I am trying to fall asleep. Also the pencil like feeling on my feet has now started in both of my hands. My left hand will close twitch a could of times a day.
I am worried about the recent changes in twitches. My feet don't bother me as much now as the other twitches. I can have a twitch in my right calve then suddenly my right quad back to my left quad. It will happen in a matter of seconds. Or sometimes it is just a twitch in the left calve and thats it but it happens everyday. I have heard that als twitches migrate. Is this migrating. I can't understand why I twitch in random places consistantly but all over.
The one neuro lady who did one of three emgs said the foot thing would resolve. When I told her about the right foot doing teh same thing one and half months later she said we covered that with the emg that was done on the right side. The other neuro wasn't worried about my foot thing and so of dimissed it. All my physical exams (three were fine). One neuro wanted to put me on neurtontin thinking this is rls but this was before the bodywide twitching. Please can anyone offer any advice. I am 37 year old female with kids. I have had alot of anxiety in my life with death of aunt in the summer and divorce. I would like to say that this is all a part of it but with twitches that go like this and on both sides it really has me worried. Thanks.
