MattAnon95
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Hello, I am a 23 year old male & I have had some concerning symptoms that I’ve been very anxious about. It all started about 2 and a half months ago, after I got covid. My left leg started feeling weird, I started getting a bad burning sensation through my left quad and then it moved down the leg and up the left arm and then eventually spread around my body. I believe it spreading around my body may have been from anxiety taking over.
Fast forward a couple weeks and I started getting random twitching all over my body. I made an appointment with a doctor and she thinks it is all anxiety related so she prescribed me with Prozac & the symptoms have deff improved but my left leg still feels weird. I do landscaping for work and I’m still able to complete my job but when I walk my left leg just feels strange.
I made an appointment with a nuerologist where she performed a reflex test, watched how I walk and did a physical test on my left leg and right leg & she told me that she thinks I am fine. That definitely made me feel a lot better but 3 days after the appointment, I started getting a strange pain in both of my hands.
The pain in both of my hands started in the fingers and the It started to feel almost like a hand cramp that moved up my arms. I don’t know if it’s my anxiety that has taken over or not but it feels almost like I have the force my hands to do things, although I have been able to do my job at work and I haven’t dropped anything. My hands just feel so weak and shaky but I can’t tell if that’s all in my head or not.
My left leg still feels weird & now with the hands feeling like this my anxiety has been out the roof again.
Does this sound anything like the start of ALS? I did read the post at the top of the forum that it’s more of a failure rather then feel but I’ve heard hand cramps are a symtom and that’s what has me all crazy right now.
Thank you so much for your time.
Fast forward a couple weeks and I started getting random twitching all over my body. I made an appointment with a doctor and she thinks it is all anxiety related so she prescribed me with Prozac & the symptoms have deff improved but my left leg still feels weird. I do landscaping for work and I’m still able to complete my job but when I walk my left leg just feels strange.
I made an appointment with a nuerologist where she performed a reflex test, watched how I walk and did a physical test on my left leg and right leg & she told me that she thinks I am fine. That definitely made me feel a lot better but 3 days after the appointment, I started getting a strange pain in both of my hands.
The pain in both of my hands started in the fingers and the It started to feel almost like a hand cramp that moved up my arms. I don’t know if it’s my anxiety that has taken over or not but it feels almost like I have the force my hands to do things, although I have been able to do my job at work and I haven’t dropped anything. My hands just feel so weak and shaky but I can’t tell if that’s all in my head or not.
My left leg still feels weird & now with the hands feeling like this my anxiety has been out the roof again.
Does this sound anything like the start of ALS? I did read the post at the top of the forum that it’s more of a failure rather then feel but I’ve heard hand cramps are a symtom and that’s what has me all crazy right now.
Thank you so much for your time.