DNC85
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- Jul 5, 2021
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- Reason
- Learn about ALS
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- Country
- CA
- State
- ON
- City
- Toronto
I'm a 36 year old father of three beautiful children under the age of 4. I'm married to an amazing woman and I am a fulltime firefighter. The reason I am here is that I'm worried that I may have ALS.
3 months ago I woke up in the middle of the night and my legs were twitching like crazy. The twitching has spread all over at this point and now I feel exhausted and weak every day and so I've been off work for 2 months. I've also got pain in my left foot now and I feel lop sided and kind of lean to the right more as I walk. In the past few weeks I've felt shortness of breath and a slight difficulty swallowing liquids.
I've seen two neurologists and had two clean EMG and nerve conduction tests in the last 2 months. The neurologists have both said they can't find any neuropathy to diagnose at this point.
This all started in spring 2020 I noticed a weird indentation in my left quad muscle and since then it has become much deeper and obvious. There was never any real pain associated with it and there was never any injury to cause damage to the muscle. I didn't see a doctor about it until june 2021 and he said its just an old muscle tear that keeps getting bigger. I had a second doctor look at it and take an ultrasound and he said there appears to be some trauma to the muscle and there is granulation. I'm worried that is muscle wasting or focal atrophy that caused the muscle to tear.
At this point the doctors have basically said I just have a muscle tear and the rest of my symptoms are likely just caused by anxiety. I assure you they are not caused by anxiety and are very real.
Has anyone ever had any similar experiences?
Please if you have any helpful information I'd appreciate it. Thank you and God bless
3 months ago I woke up in the middle of the night and my legs were twitching like crazy. The twitching has spread all over at this point and now I feel exhausted and weak every day and so I've been off work for 2 months. I've also got pain in my left foot now and I feel lop sided and kind of lean to the right more as I walk. In the past few weeks I've felt shortness of breath and a slight difficulty swallowing liquids.
I've seen two neurologists and had two clean EMG and nerve conduction tests in the last 2 months. The neurologists have both said they can't find any neuropathy to diagnose at this point.
This all started in spring 2020 I noticed a weird indentation in my left quad muscle and since then it has become much deeper and obvious. There was never any real pain associated with it and there was never any injury to cause damage to the muscle. I didn't see a doctor about it until june 2021 and he said its just an old muscle tear that keeps getting bigger. I had a second doctor look at it and take an ultrasound and he said there appears to be some trauma to the muscle and there is granulation. I'm worried that is muscle wasting or focal atrophy that caused the muscle to tear.
At this point the doctors have basically said I just have a muscle tear and the rest of my symptoms are likely just caused by anxiety. I assure you they are not caused by anxiety and are very real.
Has anyone ever had any similar experiences?
Please if you have any helpful information I'd appreciate it. Thank you and God bless