jimbo1987
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This all started at the beginning of the month and now is at the point I need to reach out to those who have a lot more experience with this. First, let me say I have a general fear of the doctor… like White Coat syndrome all the way. So I am someone who waits until it gets bad before I go. I am also in-between jobs right now, so it would be an expensive adventure… that’s why I want to run this by all of you first.
I am a very active person, I love to be outside running or walking. About 3 weeks I played tennis for the first time all year. I also spent the day with my girlfriend walking at parks around Columbus… enjoying the nice day. The next day after work I noticed my 4th and 5th toes on the left foot felt tight and were pulling in a bit. I also noticed that my left foot felt off when walking. I let it go at first, but a few days later I realized I was still being bothered by it. Like I noticed my foot felt weak and funny. The best way to describe it is when I am walking, it feels like I have little control over my left foot while stepping. Like it almost slaps down and then when I push off, it feels loose and over exaggerated. (I know that isn’t the best description, but it feels kind of weak more or less.) I am also finding that my toes are kind of catching the floor from time to time on that foot, but no falls/ bad trips. I can really see the awkwardness in my step when I wear dress shoes. I have even asked other watch me walk, but nobody has said they have seen anything noticeable yet. This problem has continued for the past two weeks now and I am getting concerned. I also have had a good amount of twitching as of late and tightness in that leg. It hasn’t cramped yet, but it feels like it could like at any moment. The tibialis anterior muscle (aka muscle next to shin) is very tight and sore when I rub. Does ALS stiffness happen in just one muscle or the whole leg? The biggest saving grace through all of this is that my leg and foot do feel weak, but I am able to walk and go up and down stairs mostly like normal… So no “clinical weakness” maybe?
Just worried I have caught on to the beginning stages of leg onset. I read the sticky and that helped a lot, but most sites just say, “Twitching, Weakness, Cramps, and stiffness”… So it has been stressing me out. I have all of those things to one degree or another, just don’t know what to think.
Does the stiffness sound like ALS stiffness?
Does the cramping feeling/ weak gait feeling sound familiar to ALS experience?
Does this sound like the start of foot drop?
Am I another crazy, over anxious ALS worrier?
Advice needed, thanks!
I am a very active person, I love to be outside running or walking. About 3 weeks I played tennis for the first time all year. I also spent the day with my girlfriend walking at parks around Columbus… enjoying the nice day. The next day after work I noticed my 4th and 5th toes on the left foot felt tight and were pulling in a bit. I also noticed that my left foot felt off when walking. I let it go at first, but a few days later I realized I was still being bothered by it. Like I noticed my foot felt weak and funny. The best way to describe it is when I am walking, it feels like I have little control over my left foot while stepping. Like it almost slaps down and then when I push off, it feels loose and over exaggerated. (I know that isn’t the best description, but it feels kind of weak more or less.) I am also finding that my toes are kind of catching the floor from time to time on that foot, but no falls/ bad trips. I can really see the awkwardness in my step when I wear dress shoes. I have even asked other watch me walk, but nobody has said they have seen anything noticeable yet. This problem has continued for the past two weeks now and I am getting concerned. I also have had a good amount of twitching as of late and tightness in that leg. It hasn’t cramped yet, but it feels like it could like at any moment. The tibialis anterior muscle (aka muscle next to shin) is very tight and sore when I rub. Does ALS stiffness happen in just one muscle or the whole leg? The biggest saving grace through all of this is that my leg and foot do feel weak, but I am able to walk and go up and down stairs mostly like normal… So no “clinical weakness” maybe?
Just worried I have caught on to the beginning stages of leg onset. I read the sticky and that helped a lot, but most sites just say, “Twitching, Weakness, Cramps, and stiffness”… So it has been stressing me out. I have all of those things to one degree or another, just don’t know what to think.
Does the stiffness sound like ALS stiffness?
Does the cramping feeling/ weak gait feeling sound familiar to ALS experience?
Does this sound like the start of foot drop?
Am I another crazy, over anxious ALS worrier?
Advice needed, thanks!