isle667
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- Feb 6, 2009
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- Learn about ALS
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- new york
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- valley stream
Hello my name is Sean, im a 22 year old male college basketball player. My story started about a year ago, i had an episode of extreme fear, and aniexty took over my life. My father has an aniexty disorder as well, i think i might of inherited it from him. lucky me. Ive been through blood tests to brain mri everything has came back normal thankgod. About a month ago my hamstring muscle start twitching, it went away for a while then about 2 weeks ago it came back. The twitch is almost always in my left buttox and left hamstring, it comes and goes throughout the day. Now twitches have started to spread into my left knee, back, right calf, right forearm, sometimes in my hand and once in a while in my feet. Ive also noticed im becoming more fatigued lately, it seems like i loose energy much faster on the basketball court. I dont think i feel much muscle weakness i can still do most of all my intense drills for quickness and indurance, as well as run 3 miles and jump rope 1 to 2 minutes at a time fast speed. I have a lot of pain in my hips and my knees as well. Ive been pushing my body through some intense workouts for the last couple of days to test my muscle strenght. It doesnt seem to be less strenght just more or less dilblating fatigue sometimes. I know twitching is not a sure sign symptom of ALS but mine started on one side which made me nervous. Ive been searching and searching checking symptoms all day long which is driving me nuts. My nurologist when i mentioned twitching to him told me the nerve test and EMG is uncomfortable and your a little too young to bring up ALS. So he sent me for unrine and blood tests for calicum thryoid etc. Ive noticed my hands feet legs go numb like never before. I also have pain in my wrists, and notice my fingers are weaker and jam easily but that could be just in my mind. Does this sound like early stages of ALS? Im sorry for asking and i know people who really have it, its horrible and dumb people like me worried about it seem so immature. It scares me to have this fatigue come accross my body plus the muscle twitching mainily in my upper left buttox now spreading a little more. Ive notice too my hands shake and my left arm seems to shake and twitch after practice or a workout. My voice seems a little strained too which is making me nervous, becoming harder to sing to songs on the radio. I would really appreciate a reply i am driving myself crazy and i convinced myself i have ALS and something is seroiusly wrong. Also the fatigue i brought up before is like i want to do something but i feel too tired and weak to do it. Its not all the time but its been happening more and more. I am very scared. Any reply would help a great deal THANKS SO MUCH SEAN!