Watson
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Hello everyone 3 weeks ago I started feeling twitching in my left shoulder. It wasn't strong at first but now I can most definitely feel it. Doesn't happen all the time. Comes and goes through out the day. Sometimes it will stop for like 8 hours. During this time I have been feeling stiffness in my both my shoulders and arms.
Now the twitching has moved to my right arm. I don't have any clinical weakness. I do have twitching also all over but it will only last a sec or two. But I do feel all of this. Past 3 days I've been getting cramps in my legs. At night especially.
I understand for it to be als needs to be clinical weakness. It's only been 4 weeks though I thought als progressed slowly. Like you fall over one day and then it happens again awhile later. I don't know anything about als. And I understand twitching can be caused by stress or caffeine or not enough sleep. But Im not stressed and I sleep 9 hours or more usually and I've been eating bananas and calcium to try and get rid of these twitching.
I did see my regular doctor a week ago and he said if it didn't stop he was going to send me to a neurologist. I'm just a little worried because I've never twitched like this. And now the cramps. Does als really come on that quickly? And I've looked about twitching with als and is it constant or not. Any replay would be great. Thank you
Now the twitching has moved to my right arm. I don't have any clinical weakness. I do have twitching also all over but it will only last a sec or two. But I do feel all of this. Past 3 days I've been getting cramps in my legs. At night especially.
I understand for it to be als needs to be clinical weakness. It's only been 4 weeks though I thought als progressed slowly. Like you fall over one day and then it happens again awhile later. I don't know anything about als. And I understand twitching can be caused by stress or caffeine or not enough sleep. But Im not stressed and I sleep 9 hours or more usually and I've been eating bananas and calcium to try and get rid of these twitching.
I did see my regular doctor a week ago and he said if it didn't stop he was going to send me to a neurologist. I'm just a little worried because I've never twitched like this. And now the cramps. Does als really come on that quickly? And I've looked about twitching with als and is it constant or not. Any replay would be great. Thank you
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