DrNilesCrane
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- Aug 14, 2024
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- Learn about ALS
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- US
I’d like to start by admitting I have pretty bad health anxiety after going through a cancer scare last year where I spent months getting a lymph node checked and ultimately biopsied for it to turn out benign. I recently went through a pretty rough post viral fatigue that I’m finally coming out the other side of.
I’ve had a lot of twitches all over my body and last week I noticed it was a little difficult to swallow. I began compulsively checking if I could enunciate words, speak sentences, move my tongue around, manually swallow with force. I’ve been doing this every day. My tongue feels heavy and I noticed a slight pain under my chin on the left side. I recognize this is not a symptom of ALS.
In the last two days I noticed that when I swallow I feel like the left side of my throat doesn’t really feel like it’s swallowing the same as the right.
I want to say, the logical part of my brain says, hey dumb dumb obviously your tongue is heavy because you’ve been using it in an unnatural way 100x a day for the last week. But the anxious part of me can’t stop worrying. I’m working with a therapist on this. I’m sorry for yet another post but I am very worried. Thank you.
I’ve had a lot of twitches all over my body and last week I noticed it was a little difficult to swallow. I began compulsively checking if I could enunciate words, speak sentences, move my tongue around, manually swallow with force. I’ve been doing this every day. My tongue feels heavy and I noticed a slight pain under my chin on the left side. I recognize this is not a symptom of ALS.
In the last two days I noticed that when I swallow I feel like the left side of my throat doesn’t really feel like it’s swallowing the same as the right.
I want to say, the logical part of my brain says, hey dumb dumb obviously your tongue is heavy because you’ve been using it in an unnatural way 100x a day for the last week. But the anxious part of me can’t stop worrying. I’m working with a therapist on this. I’m sorry for yet another post but I am very worried. Thank you.