sanbedoy17
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Hello everyone, my name is San and this is the very first time I'm actually posting here on the Forums. To start off, I need to make clear that all of you who are currently fighting this terrible malady and all of you who offered your aid to a loved one in their fight against it have my greatest of respects, I admire you all brave fighters.
However, please allow for me to introduce to you what brings me here. I'm currently a 17 y/o (male) taking the IB Diploma, and for the last 2 months, I have experienced a series of symptoms which have triggered in me the deepest of fears. About 2 months ago, I was seating down typing when suddenly, my right-hand little finger started twitching incessantly, which at first I ignored (this happened on the night of February the 20th), and once I was done typing I merely went to bed without thinking much of it, however once I woke up the following morning, the twitching had spread all throughout my body, literally from head to toes. A week passed and the twitching kept on going, leading me to ask my parents for an appointment with my GP. Once the appointment took place, I expressed to him my fear of it being ALS (of course by this point I had made the mistake of asking Dr. Google about the twitching), and he said that taking into account my age (after all I'm but 17), and the nature of the twitching (body-wide and without any sign of weakness nor atrophy), it was either BFS (Benign Fasciculation Syndrome) or a heavy outbreak of anxiety.
About a week later, I started experiencing sudden "electric shock"-like zaps of pain in different areas throughout my whole body, which lead to me calling my GP yet again, whom at this asked for me to describe the pain to him, which he concluded was merely nerve pain benign in nature. (I must say that the fact that I've been experiencing it was reassuring on regards to my ALS fears for how as you all very well know, "ALS is about failing, not feeling").
In conclusion, this has been how I've experienced the previous 2 months, without any form of progression on regards to the twitching nor the nerve pain. As a matter of fact, the intensity of the twitching has been slowly decreasing ever since I woke up with them happening all around my body.
I admire each and every single one of you for your courage and your valiancy in fighting or helping fight ALS, you are all in my deepest and most loving thoughts, and I'm sorry if I've made you waste your precious time yet I'm the need of some reassurance.
Again, I thank you all from the most deep and loving section of my heart.
However, please allow for me to introduce to you what brings me here. I'm currently a 17 y/o (male) taking the IB Diploma, and for the last 2 months, I have experienced a series of symptoms which have triggered in me the deepest of fears. About 2 months ago, I was seating down typing when suddenly, my right-hand little finger started twitching incessantly, which at first I ignored (this happened on the night of February the 20th), and once I was done typing I merely went to bed without thinking much of it, however once I woke up the following morning, the twitching had spread all throughout my body, literally from head to toes. A week passed and the twitching kept on going, leading me to ask my parents for an appointment with my GP. Once the appointment took place, I expressed to him my fear of it being ALS (of course by this point I had made the mistake of asking Dr. Google about the twitching), and he said that taking into account my age (after all I'm but 17), and the nature of the twitching (body-wide and without any sign of weakness nor atrophy), it was either BFS (Benign Fasciculation Syndrome) or a heavy outbreak of anxiety.
About a week later, I started experiencing sudden "electric shock"-like zaps of pain in different areas throughout my whole body, which lead to me calling my GP yet again, whom at this asked for me to describe the pain to him, which he concluded was merely nerve pain benign in nature. (I must say that the fact that I've been experiencing it was reassuring on regards to my ALS fears for how as you all very well know, "ALS is about failing, not feeling").
In conclusion, this has been how I've experienced the previous 2 months, without any form of progression on regards to the twitching nor the nerve pain. As a matter of fact, the intensity of the twitching has been slowly decreasing ever since I woke up with them happening all around my body.
I admire each and every single one of you for your courage and your valiancy in fighting or helping fight ALS, you are all in my deepest and most loving thoughts, and I'm sorry if I've made you waste your precious time yet I'm the need of some reassurance.
Again, I thank you all from the most deep and loving section of my heart.