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I am a 30 yo old male from Germany. Sorry for my English dear Friends. For 2 years I was experiencig huge stress at work. The first symptoms started about last spring, when I often had the feeling of dead hand and it was hard for me to agitate it in the morning. Sometimes in the evening I remember it somehow hurt so I literally had to lie on it. This eventually improved. At the end of last year began symptoms that were to me mind more 'strange' - I sometimes feel as if my hands were heavy and clumsy -bit weaker. In December, I began to actively run and it has become associated with a very strange pain in left leg (below the knee) and the like tiny vibrations in the heel and leg was a bit stiff. Somehow in February or March this year I began so concerend about those symptoms so I visited GP. He told me that it's probably burnout, but anyway sent me to a neurologist. He did a clinical test with result of normal reflexes. I started having panic from the fact that these symptoms could be related to ALS. I test myself all the time for 'clinical' strength, I go on the toes, I try to unscrew things and lift heavy objects. My question is whether my symptoms are consistent with the RS: clumsiness and sometimes pain in the hands, clumsiness and left leg pain, vibration (vibration as I feel it, but I'm afraid thats constant twitching/fascilulations but not visible with eye) in the whole foot and partly leg (left) THE WHOLE DAY and recently also in my throat (its really like constant buzzing, invisible for an eye) and chest and occasionally slight twitching (visible) in other body parts (but especially in those 'affected'). Surely my condition is affected at the moment psychologically, because of my panic, but on the other hand, its hard to fight those feelings (I have 3 year old son). Sometimes I have slight tingling in the fingers and they seem to be a bit stiff. I also had three days of great pain of the neck and back (perhaps panic, but some patients with ALS indicate this),. My neurologist did not listen to my bagging for EMG and said I certainly have no ALS (know I'm not the typical age of a of this disease is very rare). Next week Ill undergo LP and am very scared of the result. I will be very thankful for the quick response and a bit of calming words. Marek