COGuy
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- Oct 29, 2014
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- Littleton
Hello all,
First off it's great what you guys do. Thank you.
Just hoping maybe I can get a little piece of mind or become better informed.
I'm 18 y/o, male. My uncle was just recently diagnosed with ALS. That sort of made me think about some odd symptoms I've been having since August.
Basically my arms feel really "weird." I have mostly noticed it in the evening and night- seems to perhaps get progressively worse over the course of the day. Has been mostly isolated to my forearms and hands. The feeling is very hard to describe, there is no pain and no tingling or pins and needles type stuff at all. Sort of like muscles feeling fatigued (i.e. how one might feel a few hours later after working out hard), but not really. Sort of numb-ish, but again not really. All I can say is an alien type feeling, little bit of stiffness, fatigue, numbness.
My fingers drive me nuts. Especially the knuckles- same type of feeling as forearms, and I reflexively want to try and crack them/stretch them. Seem stiffer and less dextrous than normal?
I can still do everything fine- hard to say if I don't have the same strength I used to anymore? So I'm not failing at any tasks (as is indicative of ALS). Recently been having the above symptoms more-and-more/all day. At night the odd sensation in my hands and arms is enough to keep me up for hours. Just very odd and uncomfortable (again, not painful or tingly in any way). Just wondering if perhaps this strikes anyone as possibly very very early stages of ALS.
I am somewhat stressed out because of school/not enough sleep. And I know it's very very unlikely I have ALS, especially considering my age but I can't get this off my mind now.
Thanks for any insight you guys might have.
First off it's great what you guys do. Thank you.
Just hoping maybe I can get a little piece of mind or become better informed.
I'm 18 y/o, male. My uncle was just recently diagnosed with ALS. That sort of made me think about some odd symptoms I've been having since August.
Basically my arms feel really "weird." I have mostly noticed it in the evening and night- seems to perhaps get progressively worse over the course of the day. Has been mostly isolated to my forearms and hands. The feeling is very hard to describe, there is no pain and no tingling or pins and needles type stuff at all. Sort of like muscles feeling fatigued (i.e. how one might feel a few hours later after working out hard), but not really. Sort of numb-ish, but again not really. All I can say is an alien type feeling, little bit of stiffness, fatigue, numbness.
My fingers drive me nuts. Especially the knuckles- same type of feeling as forearms, and I reflexively want to try and crack them/stretch them. Seem stiffer and less dextrous than normal?
I can still do everything fine- hard to say if I don't have the same strength I used to anymore? So I'm not failing at any tasks (as is indicative of ALS). Recently been having the above symptoms more-and-more/all day. At night the odd sensation in my hands and arms is enough to keep me up for hours. Just very odd and uncomfortable (again, not painful or tingly in any way). Just wondering if perhaps this strikes anyone as possibly very very early stages of ALS.
I am somewhat stressed out because of school/not enough sleep. And I know it's very very unlikely I have ALS, especially considering my age but I can't get this off my mind now.
Thanks for any insight you guys might have.