rob818
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Hello everybody, and thank you in advance to those who will take the time to reply to this.
I am a 27 year-old boy, concerned about my symptoms and making thoughts about a possibility that I might be in early stage als.
it all started 3 months ago. I had a viral infection which I am quite sure was hepatitis B, although I am still waiting for the blood test results. Among the viral infection symptoms (fatigue, nausea), I developed other symptoms which seem to be less related to the virus (ex: hypoesthesia of left foot and left hand in the evening for few days, which then never came back, hypnic jerks while falling asleep for few days, etc.).
After the Acute infection, I started feeling better but 2 months ago started to notice I had fascics in my calves, back of my thighs, and sometimes in my arms and near my neck and sometimes also abdomen.
Recently I have been getting bad sleep, it seems like my breathing at night is not being regular. I wake up from my noisy snoring, then fall asleep again, then snore loudly and wake up again and so on.
I know there is correlation between als and history of orthopaedic trauma. I have history of broken ankle, got surgery for that and now I still have a screw inside my ankle bone.
In these last two months I have been really anxious about my health status. I take antidepressants because I am hypochondriac.
In light of what I described(Am going to get visited by neurologist in one month anyway)I would like to know your opinion: is this als?
I am a 27 year-old boy, concerned about my symptoms and making thoughts about a possibility that I might be in early stage als.
it all started 3 months ago. I had a viral infection which I am quite sure was hepatitis B, although I am still waiting for the blood test results. Among the viral infection symptoms (fatigue, nausea), I developed other symptoms which seem to be less related to the virus (ex: hypoesthesia of left foot and left hand in the evening for few days, which then never came back, hypnic jerks while falling asleep for few days, etc.).
After the Acute infection, I started feeling better but 2 months ago started to notice I had fascics in my calves, back of my thighs, and sometimes in my arms and near my neck and sometimes also abdomen.
Recently I have been getting bad sleep, it seems like my breathing at night is not being regular. I wake up from my noisy snoring, then fall asleep again, then snore loudly and wake up again and so on.
I know there is correlation between als and history of orthopaedic trauma. I have history of broken ankle, got surgery for that and now I still have a screw inside my ankle bone.
In these last two months I have been really anxious about my health status. I take antidepressants because I am hypochondriac.
In light of what I described(Am going to get visited by neurologist in one month anyway)I would like to know your opinion: is this als?
