Brit0321
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Let me start off by saying that I appreciate that this forum is here! Thank you to anyone that takes the time to read my post and respond. I know no one is a doctor or a neurologist but it does help to talk about the concerns. Ok so history:
I am a 29-year-old female that has been relatively healthy her whole life. Overweight and Do have a positive ANA so doc thinks I may have something autoimmune 2 years ago and just low vitamin d.
About two weeks before Christmas I had a CT done. Ultimately it ended up being a tumor in my parotid gland, Non-cancerous, and was removed. I was under General anesthesia. About three days before surgery I started getting muscle pains all over the body. I didn't pay much attention to it because I figured I was just stressing myself out. Like I said, I've always been healthy. Never had a broken bone no stitches, maybe has strep throat twice my whole life. I was very depressed when I found out about the tumor. I figured it was just stress playing it's role on my body. I've never been a stressful person, until two weeks before Christmas. I would get twinges of pain, they lasted for a couple of seconds at a time. My biceps were sore but got better in a couple days. About a week after surgery I started noticing the muscle twitching. Of course I asked my doctor if this was something normal after having General Anesthesia. I have never reacted well to spinal's or narcotics so I didn't think I do well with anesthesia. She didn't really have any answers and is sending me for EMG.
The twitching comes and goes. When I say that I mean, yesterday I maybe had 10 twitches all day long. Today I felt quite a few more. As I'm sitting here writing this I feel itwitches maybe like five in the past hour, give or take a few. The twitching is all over, my arms, my legs, my arms, sometimes I can feel them in my stomach, just everywhere! Of course when you Google twitching... well I know you all already know that. I am just so afraid because my daughter is only 20 months old. I will say though, that it kind of seems like the twitching is a little better than when It first started after surgery but they are still there. The muscle pains have mainly just been in my shoulder clavicle scapula area. It kind of feels like where I was having pain is where the twitches are now in my legs. Has anyone ever experienced this? Does this sound like ALS? Am I just crazy, idk but thanks for any opinions!
I am a 29-year-old female that has been relatively healthy her whole life. Overweight and Do have a positive ANA so doc thinks I may have something autoimmune 2 years ago and just low vitamin d.
About two weeks before Christmas I had a CT done. Ultimately it ended up being a tumor in my parotid gland, Non-cancerous, and was removed. I was under General anesthesia. About three days before surgery I started getting muscle pains all over the body. I didn't pay much attention to it because I figured I was just stressing myself out. Like I said, I've always been healthy. Never had a broken bone no stitches, maybe has strep throat twice my whole life. I was very depressed when I found out about the tumor. I figured it was just stress playing it's role on my body. I've never been a stressful person, until two weeks before Christmas. I would get twinges of pain, they lasted for a couple of seconds at a time. My biceps were sore but got better in a couple days. About a week after surgery I started noticing the muscle twitching. Of course I asked my doctor if this was something normal after having General Anesthesia. I have never reacted well to spinal's or narcotics so I didn't think I do well with anesthesia. She didn't really have any answers and is sending me for EMG.
The twitching comes and goes. When I say that I mean, yesterday I maybe had 10 twitches all day long. Today I felt quite a few more. As I'm sitting here writing this I feel itwitches maybe like five in the past hour, give or take a few. The twitching is all over, my arms, my legs, my arms, sometimes I can feel them in my stomach, just everywhere! Of course when you Google twitching... well I know you all already know that. I am just so afraid because my daughter is only 20 months old. I will say though, that it kind of seems like the twitching is a little better than when It first started after surgery but they are still there. The muscle pains have mainly just been in my shoulder clavicle scapula area. It kind of feels like where I was having pain is where the twitches are now in my legs. Has anyone ever experienced this? Does this sound like ALS? Am I just crazy, idk but thanks for any opinions!