what are fibrillations

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patrick76

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What are fibrillations, I have fasticulations which i just saw my doctor about , like flickers that occour when my muscle is at rest sporadically, but I aslo get these things like quivering muscle when I flex my calve if you put your hand on the flexed calf muscle you can feel like trembling is this what there talking about when they say fibrillation?

my doctor is trying to get me a appointment with a nuero


sorry for my ignorence.

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patrick
 
no patrick,you can not see or feel fibrillations and they are only picked up on emg.
i may be wrong but i think fibrillations are just finer fasiculations.
quivering muscles can be caused by weakness,no matter how still i keep my legs you can see my calfs quiver ..........i know this because they did a specific reflex test where they put my left leg bent at the knee at an angle and stroked down the side of my foot,my calf went beserk quivering(neuro asked nurse to look and kept doing it,thought it was amazing)apparantly it indicates hypotonia/loss of contraction/clinical weakness.
 
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