LanceStone
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Hello, i am a 33yr old male(Mother has MS but isn't really effected by it not sure if this matters but throwing it in there anyway) I've been recovering from covid pnuemonia the last 32 days. But my concern which brings me here is that i started developing twitching all over my body about a week ago while at rest mostly, never when i am on the move. I would say 95% of my fasiculations are me when I'm sitting down and the other 5% are mixed between when I'm standing completely still or laying down but i have never had a twitch while moving. The twitches aren't centralized at all they will literally jump from my right arm to my forehead back down to my left ankle up to my right chest and so forth.
So if it were just that i wouldn't be as concerned because i know right now my anxiety is at an all time high from this and me thinking i have ALS and I'm done for. The other symptom I'm having is very bad muscle cramps, mostly it's been in my upper left chest area it'll feel almost like a stabbing pain at times and i notice if i flex my muscle in that area it'll start to hurt(also been happening for about around a week same as the twitches). Also have noticed some muscle cramps in my calves but that hasn't really bothered me nearly as much as they have been very faint.
Yesterday i was at the park walking and decided to do a few sprints and i felt faster than ever, I'm not having any issues with any kind of clinical weakness, i have all my strength and haven't dropped or tripped or fell or anything along those lines. I
went to the ER earlier to have some tests ran to see if i could find anything out, they run a chest x-ray took some bloodwork and an EKG, everything came out fine. A few of the ER doctors also gave me a general neurology physical to see how i would do and said i did wonderfully, and was one of their strongest patients yet, but they couldn't gave me an explanation for the muscle cramps or twitches so they referred me to a neurologist.
My anxiety is through the roof at the moment and i keep pacing back and forth because of how sensitive my muscle has become to cramping, along with the twitches i get when I'm sitting down. If anyone can provide any kind of help/information to me that i may have missed or have any other questions i would greatly appreciate it. Thank you very much.
Also, they said in my chest x-ray i was fully recovered from Pnuemonia and that i didn't have covid anymore after giving me another test.
So if it were just that i wouldn't be as concerned because i know right now my anxiety is at an all time high from this and me thinking i have ALS and I'm done for. The other symptom I'm having is very bad muscle cramps, mostly it's been in my upper left chest area it'll feel almost like a stabbing pain at times and i notice if i flex my muscle in that area it'll start to hurt(also been happening for about around a week same as the twitches). Also have noticed some muscle cramps in my calves but that hasn't really bothered me nearly as much as they have been very faint.
Yesterday i was at the park walking and decided to do a few sprints and i felt faster than ever, I'm not having any issues with any kind of clinical weakness, i have all my strength and haven't dropped or tripped or fell or anything along those lines. I
went to the ER earlier to have some tests ran to see if i could find anything out, they run a chest x-ray took some bloodwork and an EKG, everything came out fine. A few of the ER doctors also gave me a general neurology physical to see how i would do and said i did wonderfully, and was one of their strongest patients yet, but they couldn't gave me an explanation for the muscle cramps or twitches so they referred me to a neurologist.
My anxiety is through the roof at the moment and i keep pacing back and forth because of how sensitive my muscle has become to cramping, along with the twitches i get when I'm sitting down. If anyone can provide any kind of help/information to me that i may have missed or have any other questions i would greatly appreciate it. Thank you very much.
Also, they said in my chest x-ray i was fully recovered from Pnuemonia and that i didn't have covid anymore after giving me another test.
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