JBenz7524
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- Sep 6, 2013
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- CA
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- Los Angeles
Hello, I've posted here before but my symptoms keep changing and my worry keeps growing so here I am again. I'm a 31 y/o male who leads a pretty active lifestyle, but also spends a lot of time typing on my tablet, computer, and phone.
Ill start at the beginning. About a month ago, I got a sudden twitch in my middle finger where it would move from side to side involuntarily sporadically for about 2 days. While the finger was twitching the back of my hand looked like worms crawling. That went away, but the twitching has now pretty much spread to every part of my body. Its like a quick thump, or a series of rapid twitches and it just happens once or twice and hour usually but sometimes it'll be the same spot for 20 mins or so. The other night, I could actually see my left calve pulsating with the twitches. I've done enough research to know that ALS would usually not spread that quick, so I attribute these twitches possibly to anxiety. However, that initial twitch and a few others cause me to worry about it.
If that was the only symptom I probably would have stopped worrying by now, but shortly after the twitch I started to get a pain in right wrist that kinda feels like I sprained it. I played tennis and golf days apart which ive done my whole life, but thats when it started. I can still do everything normally, but there is a pain I feel when trying to turn a key, shift gears, or hold a pen. It causes weakness, though I feel as if the weakness is from the pain not necessarily from clinical weakness. I was able to mount and hang a 47" TV on my wall by myself a week ago which hurt but I could still do it. I know ALS affects smaller muscles first so that probably means nothing.
Even more recently, I've started to feel a similar tight feeling ever so slightly in my left wrist. It is nowhere near as bad, but it is apparent. When I wake every morning, my hands are incredibly stiff and dry, and get that way sometimes throughout the day as well.
I've been trying to treat this as just a simple wrist issue and get ALS out of my mind. I've been wearing a wrist wrap for over a week now, but the feeling of a sprain just doesn't seem to go away.
If you put the twitching, the wrist issues that seem to be spreading from one hand to the other, and the accompanied feeling of weakness together it has got me down right panicked about ALS. I know that weakness wouldn't be so drastic that I couldn't turn a key overnight, so I fear that what I'm experiencing may be the early stages and that it is only a matter of time before the symptoms will progress to where I'll be experiencing real clinical weakness and it terrifies me.
I feel for every single person that has this horrendous disease, and really appreciate you taking the time to read this and offer your thoughts. I know you are not doctors, but just want to hear from the people with knowledge and experience of the disease if those symptoms sounds like ALS? If not, I could really use some reassurance and reasons why not right now. Thanks so much!
Ill start at the beginning. About a month ago, I got a sudden twitch in my middle finger where it would move from side to side involuntarily sporadically for about 2 days. While the finger was twitching the back of my hand looked like worms crawling. That went away, but the twitching has now pretty much spread to every part of my body. Its like a quick thump, or a series of rapid twitches and it just happens once or twice and hour usually but sometimes it'll be the same spot for 20 mins or so. The other night, I could actually see my left calve pulsating with the twitches. I've done enough research to know that ALS would usually not spread that quick, so I attribute these twitches possibly to anxiety. However, that initial twitch and a few others cause me to worry about it.
If that was the only symptom I probably would have stopped worrying by now, but shortly after the twitch I started to get a pain in right wrist that kinda feels like I sprained it. I played tennis and golf days apart which ive done my whole life, but thats when it started. I can still do everything normally, but there is a pain I feel when trying to turn a key, shift gears, or hold a pen. It causes weakness, though I feel as if the weakness is from the pain not necessarily from clinical weakness. I was able to mount and hang a 47" TV on my wall by myself a week ago which hurt but I could still do it. I know ALS affects smaller muscles first so that probably means nothing.
Even more recently, I've started to feel a similar tight feeling ever so slightly in my left wrist. It is nowhere near as bad, but it is apparent. When I wake every morning, my hands are incredibly stiff and dry, and get that way sometimes throughout the day as well.
I've been trying to treat this as just a simple wrist issue and get ALS out of my mind. I've been wearing a wrist wrap for over a week now, but the feeling of a sprain just doesn't seem to go away.
If you put the twitching, the wrist issues that seem to be spreading from one hand to the other, and the accompanied feeling of weakness together it has got me down right panicked about ALS. I know that weakness wouldn't be so drastic that I couldn't turn a key overnight, so I fear that what I'm experiencing may be the early stages and that it is only a matter of time before the symptoms will progress to where I'll be experiencing real clinical weakness and it terrifies me.
I feel for every single person that has this horrendous disease, and really appreciate you taking the time to read this and offer your thoughts. I know you are not doctors, but just want to hear from the people with knowledge and experience of the disease if those symptoms sounds like ALS? If not, I could really use some reassurance and reasons why not right now. Thanks so much!
