Hi! Male 44 years old here. ’m sorry to be posting but I finally decided to seek your advice. My wife and I are nervous and some of your thoughts might really help us. I’m having some symptoms that are worrying me. Here they are in brief:
Dec 22: Odd headache in left temple— three pulses, long pause, three pulses, etc. This headache was accompanied by numbness in left side of face. This lasted 24 hours.
Dec 23-Jan 9: during this time I felt lightheaded and dizzy. Lasted a little over three weeks. My balance was definitely off and it was clear to me that something was abnormal. No sensation of vertigo.
Jan 10-Jan 18: Paresthesia... numbness, pins and needles, itching in right left, right hand and arm, left hand and arm. My left hand experienced particular numbness during this phase. At this point I was afraid I might have MS.
Jan-19-Feb 7: night sweats every night wherein I would wake up drenched. I also had widespread muscle twitches during this time. My calves, quads, left tricep, right lower back would primarily twitch. I would have occasional twitches in upper back and both shoulders and right arm. Maybe slight twitches in eyelid. I got a brain MRI on Jan 21 which came back fine so the doc said prob no MS.
Feb 8-present: muscle twitches continue. I started to perceive an odd feeling in my left arm/hand. Like tiredness. I went to the gym Feb 9 and used a grip strength tester and it was not weak. But from Feb 8 the feeling persisted and became like a feeling of soreness in the wrist and left hand when I would use the muscles. I would describe the feeling like I just spent hours working with that hand doing strenuous activities, but I haven’t. I kept trying to brush this off as anxiety.
I don’t believe I have any clinical weakness at present but the feeling of soreness and perceived weakness in my left hand is troubling me a great deal and making me afraid that it might be the precursor to actual clinical weakness.
What for me worried and led me to post tonight is that while I was playing Xbox tonight, my left hand became very sore. I have played Xbox a good deal and for years and I have never had this happen. It’s definitely abnormal for me. My left hand feels sore and tired.
Does this sound anything like ALS to you? My wife herself is very ill and this is adding stress that we don’t need. I read the sticky thread and I tried not to post here because I have a neuro appointment the week of March 20 but the abnormal soreness in my hand tonight has gotten me really anxious.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and thank you for helping strangers. You truly are good people.
Dec 22: Odd headache in left temple— three pulses, long pause, three pulses, etc. This headache was accompanied by numbness in left side of face. This lasted 24 hours.
Dec 23-Jan 9: during this time I felt lightheaded and dizzy. Lasted a little over three weeks. My balance was definitely off and it was clear to me that something was abnormal. No sensation of vertigo.
Jan 10-Jan 18: Paresthesia... numbness, pins and needles, itching in right left, right hand and arm, left hand and arm. My left hand experienced particular numbness during this phase. At this point I was afraid I might have MS.
Jan-19-Feb 7: night sweats every night wherein I would wake up drenched. I also had widespread muscle twitches during this time. My calves, quads, left tricep, right lower back would primarily twitch. I would have occasional twitches in upper back and both shoulders and right arm. Maybe slight twitches in eyelid. I got a brain MRI on Jan 21 which came back fine so the doc said prob no MS.
Feb 8-present: muscle twitches continue. I started to perceive an odd feeling in my left arm/hand. Like tiredness. I went to the gym Feb 9 and used a grip strength tester and it was not weak. But from Feb 8 the feeling persisted and became like a feeling of soreness in the wrist and left hand when I would use the muscles. I would describe the feeling like I just spent hours working with that hand doing strenuous activities, but I haven’t. I kept trying to brush this off as anxiety.
I don’t believe I have any clinical weakness at present but the feeling of soreness and perceived weakness in my left hand is troubling me a great deal and making me afraid that it might be the precursor to actual clinical weakness.
What for me worried and led me to post tonight is that while I was playing Xbox tonight, my left hand became very sore. I have played Xbox a good deal and for years and I have never had this happen. It’s definitely abnormal for me. My left hand feels sore and tired.
Does this sound anything like ALS to you? My wife herself is very ill and this is adding stress that we don’t need. I read the sticky thread and I tried not to post here because I have a neuro appointment the week of March 20 but the abnormal soreness in my hand tonight has gotten me really anxious.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and thank you for helping strangers. You truly are good people.
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