Fierce55
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Hello all ,
Thank you for allowing me to post my thread and ask my questions as I have been struggling with some anxiety over these issues and I appreciate every last one of you here ,
, thank you .
A bit of background , I’m a 22 year old African American female no family history of ALS and nobody in family as far as I know with ALS , so a few weeks ago I started experiencing muscle cramps in my calves . I thought nothing of it at first , but than I started feeling twitches in my buttocks , my arms , my shoulders , and calves as well as hands , feet and eyelids . I have also been experiencing sharp pains in my legs and arms as well as a very stiff neck and pain in my shoulders . Of course dr google has scared me half to death .
A few days ago actually within the last week I have been feeling weak in my right arm and leg . Yesterday I’ve noticed that while trying to eat I was having a hard time bringing the fork to my mouth , I could preform the action but it was exhausting . I will note that I do have a job where I have to use my right hand to preform the same task repetitively And maybe this is the reason for my right arm weakness but nevertheless I’m afraid .
I might make mention of the fact that a month ago I was having a headache that would not go away with any kind of medicine and bouts of vision loss so I had to go to the er where they referred me to an ophthalmologist who confirmed that my optic nerve was swollen and from there I had to have a spinal tap but there was no confirmed pressure increase so I’m still waiting on a neurology consult . The vision loss cleared with the spinal tap as well as the headache but I’m concerned that the twitches and aches are related to the papilldema ( optic nerve swelling ) and I’m wondering if these could be early ALS symptoms . Thank you for any kind of reply . Thank you again .
Thank you for allowing me to post my thread and ask my questions as I have been struggling with some anxiety over these issues and I appreciate every last one of you here ,
, thank you .
A bit of background , I’m a 22 year old African American female no family history of ALS and nobody in family as far as I know with ALS , so a few weeks ago I started experiencing muscle cramps in my calves . I thought nothing of it at first , but than I started feeling twitches in my buttocks , my arms , my shoulders , and calves as well as hands , feet and eyelids . I have also been experiencing sharp pains in my legs and arms as well as a very stiff neck and pain in my shoulders . Of course dr google has scared me half to death .
A few days ago actually within the last week I have been feeling weak in my right arm and leg . Yesterday I’ve noticed that while trying to eat I was having a hard time bringing the fork to my mouth , I could preform the action but it was exhausting . I will note that I do have a job where I have to use my right hand to preform the same task repetitively And maybe this is the reason for my right arm weakness but nevertheless I’m afraid .
I might make mention of the fact that a month ago I was having a headache that would not go away with any kind of medicine and bouts of vision loss so I had to go to the er where they referred me to an ophthalmologist who confirmed that my optic nerve was swollen and from there I had to have a spinal tap but there was no confirmed pressure increase so I’m still waiting on a neurology consult . The vision loss cleared with the spinal tap as well as the headache but I’m concerned that the twitches and aches are related to the papilldema ( optic nerve swelling ) and I’m wondering if these could be early ALS symptoms . Thank you for any kind of reply . Thank you again .
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