Sorry if this is long. Hopefully I can explain with as much detail as possible. I appreciate you taking the time to review my symptoms. I have been very worried about ALS lately, and can't stop thinking about it.
I am a 26 year old male. I have always been athletic and played a variety of sports.
My symptoms first started around 4 months ago with a twitch/tremor in my right pinky finger. I say tremor because it would start moving at rest, but once I moved it would go away. This would happen sporadically throughout the day. Then i started to experience twitching in my left eye. This was annoying, but I just chalked it up to stress.
Then in the last 2 months or so, I started to experience muscle twitching throughout my body. It started in my right quad area and then moved to my lower left calf. Then a few weeks later I started experiencing the twitching all throughout my body. Forearms, triceps on each arm, randomly throughout the day. Some days are better than others, and the twitching does not seem to happen constantly through the day. I read about potassium and magnesium deficiencies and started trying to eat more bananas and took a magnesium supplement. This actually seem to help the twitching significantly at the time.
In the last week or so I have started to experience muscle weakness, which is what has really started to make me nervous about ALS. The muscle weakness has mainly been in my thighs (quad), forearms, and shoulders/side of upper arm. Basically my legs and arms feel "heavy". It seems to affect both sides of my body equally. I have also started to experience a "sensation" in the tongue. I wouldn't really say it tingles, but more of a slight pain or just feeling of something weird. This also has scared me about ALS.
It's weird, ever since I started to experience the weakness, the twitching doesn't seem as bad, although the twitching still occurs mainly in my legs and sometimes in my left eye. I also now sometimes feel "cloudy" or some sort of "brain fog".
I do continue to play sports and other athletic activities, and have not really noticed a drop in ability once I get going. It is just hard to get motivated to do anything because I feel weak.
I must add that I do have a lot of stress in my life, as I just started my own start-up company last year. Add this with the stress of ALS, I am sure I am only making the symptoms worse.
Does anyone have any thoughts?
I am a 26 year old male. I have always been athletic and played a variety of sports.
My symptoms first started around 4 months ago with a twitch/tremor in my right pinky finger. I say tremor because it would start moving at rest, but once I moved it would go away. This would happen sporadically throughout the day. Then i started to experience twitching in my left eye. This was annoying, but I just chalked it up to stress.
Then in the last 2 months or so, I started to experience muscle twitching throughout my body. It started in my right quad area and then moved to my lower left calf. Then a few weeks later I started experiencing the twitching all throughout my body. Forearms, triceps on each arm, randomly throughout the day. Some days are better than others, and the twitching does not seem to happen constantly through the day. I read about potassium and magnesium deficiencies and started trying to eat more bananas and took a magnesium supplement. This actually seem to help the twitching significantly at the time.
In the last week or so I have started to experience muscle weakness, which is what has really started to make me nervous about ALS. The muscle weakness has mainly been in my thighs (quad), forearms, and shoulders/side of upper arm. Basically my legs and arms feel "heavy". It seems to affect both sides of my body equally. I have also started to experience a "sensation" in the tongue. I wouldn't really say it tingles, but more of a slight pain or just feeling of something weird. This also has scared me about ALS.
It's weird, ever since I started to experience the weakness, the twitching doesn't seem as bad, although the twitching still occurs mainly in my legs and sometimes in my left eye. I also now sometimes feel "cloudy" or some sort of "brain fog".
I do continue to play sports and other athletic activities, and have not really noticed a drop in ability once I get going. It is just hard to get motivated to do anything because I feel weak.
I must add that I do have a lot of stress in my life, as I just started my own start-up company last year. Add this with the stress of ALS, I am sure I am only making the symptoms worse.
Does anyone have any thoughts?