saliena934
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- Mar 18, 2014
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- Reason
- Learn about ALS
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- UK
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- Birmingham
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- Birmingham
I'm scared I have als. In December my lower back felt warm and then my leg started going weak on my right side. The doctors did blood tests and everything came back normal and it went away. For the past month I have started feeling twitching in my muscles (especially in my right thigh) and then my leg would go weak and then it would go back to normal. This was only at rest though. My period also started a week early and it was very weak. On Tuesday I felt really bad and upset and I've felt terrible (which is weird cause im always happy) until Saturday when I started to feel weakness in my left side. Then the whole of the ledt side of my body including my face felt weak (I could still do everything normally but it just felt weak). We called an ambulance and they told me everything was fine. They did some basically neurological and strength tests and said that was normal. Then the next day I woke up and it was fine but then as the day went by the right side had that weakness too. It eventually lessened by the end of the day. Yesterday most of my body was fine apart from my left calf which felt a bit tense and weak, and this increased throughout the day and even more so when my mum tried to massage my calves. Today I both of my calves feel weak, I can walk around and walk on the balls of my feet but it feels really weird, and kind of stiff and weak, especially at rest. Everyone keeps telling me it's anxiety for my exams but I haven't been worried about my exams and I highly doubt this is anxiety. My muscles also twitch around my body when I'm resting (especially in my legs). My anal muscles feel a bit weak as well and I have been going to the toilet more often. I've been exercising all day to test the strength so now my legs are killing me. I'm just wondering if this is anxiety a real problem. A Google search pointed me in the direction of als. I'm a healthy 19 (female) and I've been freaking out and crying for the past week and I haven't been able to sleep and I'm starting to lose my appetite but I'm still forcing down food and I am losing a bit of weight and I only weight 7st 11 before. I'm going to see a neurologist on Tomorrow but the wait is killing me and I can't tell if this is precieved weakness or actual weakness because it felt like I was walking funny today.
My neck is also stiff at times and also writing with my right hand feels a bit funny. Does the onset symptoms progress so quickly because the numbness started on Saturday.
My neck is also stiff at times and also writing with my right hand feels a bit funny. Does the onset symptoms progress so quickly because the numbness started on Saturday.