Worrywort83
New member
- Joined
- Dec 16, 2022
- Messages
- 3
- Reason
- Learn about ALS
- Diagnosis
- 00/0000
- Country
- US
- State
- CA
- City
- Oak hills
Hello everyone,
My name is John, I'm 39 years old and I'm Asian American. Lately I've been having muscle twitches and its really starting to worry me. It started off on my upper back muscle right behind my rear shoulder muscle. The fasciculations lasted for about 3 days and when that stopped I started getting these pulses through out my body. They weren't fasciculations but felt like pulses through out my body that never lasted more then a few seconds in that particular region. Happens more at night while I'm trying to go to bed or just waking up. I've had muscle pain and soreness in my right arm that comes and goes, and changes spots in my right arm. From my bicep, to my forearm and then to my elbow. About a week later I started to develop a fasciculation in my left knee and hasn't stopped since.
2nd symptom - for the past week I've been woken up after about 4-5 hours of sleep with a burning sensation in my stomach and a soreness. Once I'm up, the pain goes away. I don't feel it much during the day. I usually rarely yawn, and I'm noticing I yawn more often, they aren't back to back but yawn more then I use to. It also feels like sometimes ive been stumbling over my words and my saliva feels thicker and more often have to swallow or my speech gets impaired.
I know it is still very early with all my symptoms, but it has me a little worried and concerned. It has definitely given me health anxiety and i'm not sure if that's what is making everything worse.
Was wondering if I could get someone's opinion that has also had these symptoms and everything turned out ok. How long did they last you?
My heart goes out to anyone who is dealing with ALS and everyone who is in the same boat as me.
My name is John, I'm 39 years old and I'm Asian American. Lately I've been having muscle twitches and its really starting to worry me. It started off on my upper back muscle right behind my rear shoulder muscle. The fasciculations lasted for about 3 days and when that stopped I started getting these pulses through out my body. They weren't fasciculations but felt like pulses through out my body that never lasted more then a few seconds in that particular region. Happens more at night while I'm trying to go to bed or just waking up. I've had muscle pain and soreness in my right arm that comes and goes, and changes spots in my right arm. From my bicep, to my forearm and then to my elbow. About a week later I started to develop a fasciculation in my left knee and hasn't stopped since.
2nd symptom - for the past week I've been woken up after about 4-5 hours of sleep with a burning sensation in my stomach and a soreness. Once I'm up, the pain goes away. I don't feel it much during the day. I usually rarely yawn, and I'm noticing I yawn more often, they aren't back to back but yawn more then I use to. It also feels like sometimes ive been stumbling over my words and my saliva feels thicker and more often have to swallow or my speech gets impaired.
I know it is still very early with all my symptoms, but it has me a little worried and concerned. It has definitely given me health anxiety and i'm not sure if that's what is making everything worse.
Was wondering if I could get someone's opinion that has also had these symptoms and everything turned out ok. How long did they last you?
My heart goes out to anyone who is dealing with ALS and everyone who is in the same boat as me.