adamkj94
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So I am really worried that I have ALS. I am a 26 year old male. I struggle with severe anxiety and depression. It started of with some jerks and twitches in my legs about a month ago, often when I was about to sleep, and I just attributed it to stress and hypogonic jerks. But the jerks and twitches seemed to get worse.
Also I was walking and bicycling alot, but frustrated that I the muscles in my legs didnt get stronger or tighter, and when I was bicycling just a slight uphill for a few minutes I would get exhausted in my legs. The twitches got worse, and now I have twitches all over my body: my legs, my arms, my feet, my hands, my face, my stomach, my back, everywhere, every day, pretty often. Sometimes I just get one twitch at a time in one single area, other times all over my body several times. Some are small and last only a second others are larger and lasts a little longer, visible to the naked eye.
I off course googled this and found ALS, and got terrified. The symptoms got worse. I seem to drag my feet across the ground sometimes when I walk, I have done this before, but now it seems more frequent. Also my grip feels weaker, I notice I lose things, and I am more clumsy than usual; I managed to bump a glass with my hand so it fell to the floor and broke, and when I write on my smartphone I constantly press the wrong letters, my coordination feels off, I notice that I constantly bump into things with my hands and arms, and when I walk I notice I flail with my arms so my hands touches my protruding pockets, also notice that I bump into elevated surfaces with my toes a lot, like I am not lifting my foot high enough.
Whenever I flex my muscles, only slightly, like if I fold my hands a little tight, my arms start to tremble and tremor, even now when I am typing this my left arm is trembling, the trembling goes away when I let the arm relax. Also I slur my speech sometimes, with certain words, or I pronounce them weirdly. I feel like the muscles in my arms and legs have gotten smaller, and they all feel sloppy and soft. I have severe fatigue all the day, and I am yawning a lot. The little finger on my left hand looks a little crooked. I have had trouble sleeping, and wake up to twitches in my body. Also have these really nasty pains in my body, especially in my feet, they are really sharp and terrible, and often when I get them I feel chills/gooseflesh in my back and arms.
I also have some pain in my fingers and legs. My muscles feel stiff a lot of the time, like when I move my arm or leg it feels like they are made of tight rubber, the stiffness comes and goes.
I am pretty convinced I have this disease, I went to a neurologist and she did some physical test with reflexes and strength, and said she didnt suspect ALS, though she said my muscles were tense, and said it could be anxiety, but I am afraid that she didnt find anything cause its too early in the progression.
Also I was walking and bicycling alot, but frustrated that I the muscles in my legs didnt get stronger or tighter, and when I was bicycling just a slight uphill for a few minutes I would get exhausted in my legs. The twitches got worse, and now I have twitches all over my body: my legs, my arms, my feet, my hands, my face, my stomach, my back, everywhere, every day, pretty often. Sometimes I just get one twitch at a time in one single area, other times all over my body several times. Some are small and last only a second others are larger and lasts a little longer, visible to the naked eye.
I off course googled this and found ALS, and got terrified. The symptoms got worse. I seem to drag my feet across the ground sometimes when I walk, I have done this before, but now it seems more frequent. Also my grip feels weaker, I notice I lose things, and I am more clumsy than usual; I managed to bump a glass with my hand so it fell to the floor and broke, and when I write on my smartphone I constantly press the wrong letters, my coordination feels off, I notice that I constantly bump into things with my hands and arms, and when I walk I notice I flail with my arms so my hands touches my protruding pockets, also notice that I bump into elevated surfaces with my toes a lot, like I am not lifting my foot high enough.
Whenever I flex my muscles, only slightly, like if I fold my hands a little tight, my arms start to tremble and tremor, even now when I am typing this my left arm is trembling, the trembling goes away when I let the arm relax. Also I slur my speech sometimes, with certain words, or I pronounce them weirdly. I feel like the muscles in my arms and legs have gotten smaller, and they all feel sloppy and soft. I have severe fatigue all the day, and I am yawning a lot. The little finger on my left hand looks a little crooked. I have had trouble sleeping, and wake up to twitches in my body. Also have these really nasty pains in my body, especially in my feet, they are really sharp and terrible, and often when I get them I feel chills/gooseflesh in my back and arms.
I also have some pain in my fingers and legs. My muscles feel stiff a lot of the time, like when I move my arm or leg it feels like they are made of tight rubber, the stiffness comes and goes.
I am pretty convinced I have this disease, I went to a neurologist and she did some physical test with reflexes and strength, and said she didnt suspect ALS, though she said my muscles were tense, and said it could be anxiety, but I am afraid that she didnt find anything cause its too early in the progression.
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