Hi everyone,
I've been lurching around here for a couple of weeks now and I have nothing but the utmost admiration for the people on this site and feel honoured to be allowed to post on this site.
I have read the stickies but still feel the need to post as I am worried sick and it is quite simply ruining my life at the moment.
I am a 62 year old woman living in the UK. My feet and toes have been cramping for over a year now and it has been progressing in frequency so it's now many times a day. It started off just in certain positions during yoga.
I have had lots of blood tests done, all clear and I have a referral to a neurologist but not that's not until July which seems a lifetime away.
I believe I have atrophy in both feet and ankles but I have been self examining so much recently, I can't be objective any more. I have relentless fasciculations in my feet and calves, but I already had BFS and I realize that because my anxiety is through the roof, this is bound to be worse. I think my tongue has had the odd twitch recently and this is also freaking me out.
I have NO weakness in my feet or anywhere else and I am clinging on to the fact that, as explained in the stickies, weakness/failure always precedes muscle wasting.
I have read and researched neurological websites until there's little left to read. At first I was re assured that cramping without weakness could be idiopathic, a neuropathy or a vascular condition ( I have Raynaud's syndrome) and that it doesn't usually present as an initial symptom, but now I'm more pessimistic.
These symptoms are feeding into my (already diagnosed) health anxiety. I am about to start CBT therapy (again) and have started taking anti depressants, a two pronged approach to getting me through the next 10 weeks until I see a neurologist. Any thoughts would be welcome.
I've been lurching around here for a couple of weeks now and I have nothing but the utmost admiration for the people on this site and feel honoured to be allowed to post on this site.
I have read the stickies but still feel the need to post as I am worried sick and it is quite simply ruining my life at the moment.
I am a 62 year old woman living in the UK. My feet and toes have been cramping for over a year now and it has been progressing in frequency so it's now many times a day. It started off just in certain positions during yoga.
I have had lots of blood tests done, all clear and I have a referral to a neurologist but not that's not until July which seems a lifetime away.
I believe I have atrophy in both feet and ankles but I have been self examining so much recently, I can't be objective any more. I have relentless fasciculations in my feet and calves, but I already had BFS and I realize that because my anxiety is through the roof, this is bound to be worse. I think my tongue has had the odd twitch recently and this is also freaking me out.
I have NO weakness in my feet or anywhere else and I am clinging on to the fact that, as explained in the stickies, weakness/failure always precedes muscle wasting.
I have read and researched neurological websites until there's little left to read. At first I was re assured that cramping without weakness could be idiopathic, a neuropathy or a vascular condition ( I have Raynaud's syndrome) and that it doesn't usually present as an initial symptom, but now I'm more pessimistic.
These symptoms are feeding into my (already diagnosed) health anxiety. I am about to start CBT therapy (again) and have started taking anti depressants, a two pronged approach to getting me through the next 10 weeks until I see a neurologist. Any thoughts would be welcome.