Robmac6
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- Glasgow
Hi All
And thanks for all the fantastic information given on this site. I have read lots and lots of questions and many reassuring answers that I had hoped avoided me having to write on this and take up people’s valuable time but I have yet to see every symptom I am having quite in the way I am having them and would like to write this one post and hopefully get closer to feeling better or not about all the anxiety the waiting for my MRI and EMG are bringing.
So, and please hear me out as I know the first reaction to my first symptom, it all started with numbness in my left hand when sleeping but this was going on for about a year before any other symptom so may not be related to other symptoms I have developed.
I eventually went to the doc who decided it was not carpal tunnel and he gave me some simple, I guess, strength tests like griping his wrist, making a hoop with my thumb and forefinger and linking with his and pulling. He decided I should get an MRI on my neck as it could be a trapped nerve.
So roll on 6 weeks and my symptoms have dramatically changed. I have developed bad upper body weakness to the extent that lifting anything heavier than a couple of Kgs causes my arm to start shaking. If I do 3 press-ups my arms start shaking. I have general fatigue and have aching in my shoulders and biceps. I am trying to convince myself that I don’t see atrophy in my shoulders but my forearms and wrists have got definite indents when I clench my first that we’re not there before.
But the 2 most concerning things to me are that no matter how much I eat I can not gain weight (this was never the case before) and I have developed this internal tremor in my stomach which I am pretty sure is always there but more noticeable when lying down or coming out of a sleep. I also sweat more in bed than I used to and I still get the numb hands that wake me up although as said this is an old symptom.
I can still, so far, do all the small motor related tasks that I always could, can still walk on my toes, heels. I just feel so much weaker, heavy armed. Get tired and fatigued really easily. I’m 58 and male.
Any thoughts more than welcome.
I still await my MRI and EMG dates. Fearing the worst and hoping for the best.
Many Thanks
Rob
And thanks for all the fantastic information given on this site. I have read lots and lots of questions and many reassuring answers that I had hoped avoided me having to write on this and take up people’s valuable time but I have yet to see every symptom I am having quite in the way I am having them and would like to write this one post and hopefully get closer to feeling better or not about all the anxiety the waiting for my MRI and EMG are bringing.
So, and please hear me out as I know the first reaction to my first symptom, it all started with numbness in my left hand when sleeping but this was going on for about a year before any other symptom so may not be related to other symptoms I have developed.
I eventually went to the doc who decided it was not carpal tunnel and he gave me some simple, I guess, strength tests like griping his wrist, making a hoop with my thumb and forefinger and linking with his and pulling. He decided I should get an MRI on my neck as it could be a trapped nerve.
So roll on 6 weeks and my symptoms have dramatically changed. I have developed bad upper body weakness to the extent that lifting anything heavier than a couple of Kgs causes my arm to start shaking. If I do 3 press-ups my arms start shaking. I have general fatigue and have aching in my shoulders and biceps. I am trying to convince myself that I don’t see atrophy in my shoulders but my forearms and wrists have got definite indents when I clench my first that we’re not there before.
But the 2 most concerning things to me are that no matter how much I eat I can not gain weight (this was never the case before) and I have developed this internal tremor in my stomach which I am pretty sure is always there but more noticeable when lying down or coming out of a sleep. I also sweat more in bed than I used to and I still get the numb hands that wake me up although as said this is an old symptom.
I can still, so far, do all the small motor related tasks that I always could, can still walk on my toes, heels. I just feel so much weaker, heavy armed. Get tired and fatigued really easily. I’m 58 and male.
Any thoughts more than welcome.
I still await my MRI and EMG dates. Fearing the worst and hoping for the best.
Many Thanks
Rob