I'm a 49 year old male with a history of college sports/weightlifting and working out. I've been to a Neurosurgeon, Neurologist, and Internist. They have run full MRI, EMG, Babinski's, blood work etc. Uniformly I have been told that I don't have ALS/Bulbar. My EMG came back last week normal with a "very mild" peripheral nueropathy attributed age/use and abuse that he said was "sensory".
The doctor that did the EMG has done many ALS patients and said I have nothing to worry about. The primary Neurologist confirmed the tests I took with a ALS/specialist collegue of his at Stonybrook in NY to confrim that he wasn't missing anything. That Neurologist agreed that everything was normal. They attributed my twitching to BFS, and weakness as perceived.
Yet, I'm still feeling fasciculations on my thighs, minor cramping in my feet, thighs, and hands and weakness and some weight loss and massive anxiety including can't sleep. The weight loss has been attributed to the anxiety and my fear of working out the past 2 months.
For you experts is it possible that fear/anxiety can cause all this?
Thanks and god bless.
The doctor that did the EMG has done many ALS patients and said I have nothing to worry about. The primary Neurologist confirmed the tests I took with a ALS/specialist collegue of his at Stonybrook in NY to confrim that he wasn't missing anything. That Neurologist agreed that everything was normal. They attributed my twitching to BFS, and weakness as perceived.
Yet, I'm still feeling fasciculations on my thighs, minor cramping in my feet, thighs, and hands and weakness and some weight loss and massive anxiety including can't sleep. The weight loss has been attributed to the anxiety and my fear of working out the past 2 months.
For you experts is it possible that fear/anxiety can cause all this?
Thanks and god bless.