ChihYang
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- Taipei
Hello and thanks for reading my post. I'm a healthy 26M, with slight GERD problem. About a half year ago, I began feeling fasciculations in my left thigh, and later all over my body. I went to the neurologist and took EMG tests in my left hand, left biceps, left quadriceps and left gastrocnemius muscle. The doctor said there was no sign of ALS (increased insertional activities in left gastrocnemius muscle and small-amplitude polyphasic wave in left Biceps).
Yet recently, my muscles twitched more frequently, especially in the neck and in in the cheeks. I noticed the fasciculations in my tongue and the scallop-shaped tongue. I tend to clear my throat while eating but not yet choked, and sometimes feeling that saliva dripping from the corner of my mouth, but I don't think the secretion is increasing. I just wondered if these symptoms were sign of bulbar onset, because some of them sound like bALS symptoms but I don't have slurring speech also not quite sure if I have dysphagia. I'm very worried. Thank you in advance for any guidance you can offer.
Yet recently, my muscles twitched more frequently, especially in the neck and in in the cheeks. I noticed the fasciculations in my tongue and the scallop-shaped tongue. I tend to clear my throat while eating but not yet choked, and sometimes feeling that saliva dripping from the corner of my mouth, but I don't think the secretion is increasing. I just wondered if these symptoms were sign of bulbar onset, because some of them sound like bALS symptoms but I don't have slurring speech also not quite sure if I have dysphagia. I'm very worried. Thank you in advance for any guidance you can offer.