A11yance 43 Posted January 8, 2019 I know we shouldn’t google but I found this to help calm some nerves, even mine: https://scarysymptoms.com/2016/09/top-10-muscle-twitching-reassurance-rules/ https://scarysymptoms.com/2015/07/twitching-muscles-als-and-beating-fear/ https://scarysymptoms.com/2015/06/muscle-twitching-is-it-als-anxiety-or/ https://scarysymptoms.com/2012/01/overcome-perceived-weakness-with-these/ https://scarysymptoms.com/2012/09/perceived-weakness-vs-als-weakness/ https://scarysymptoms.com/2012/01/twitching-muscles-als-panic-great-tests/ 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cubanborn87 42 Posted January 8, 2019 Thanks, man. Thats very helpful Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Missy2626 251 Posted January 8, 2019 Excellent links!! I’ve also been having twitching in random muscle groups for the past three weeks now. I do have chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia and I believe I may be having a flareup of those conditions which is causing the twitching. But of course, my health anxiety always keeps A** in the back of my mind. Those are terrific and reassuring articles....thank you!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cubanborn87 42 Posted January 8, 2019 8 hours ago, Missy2626 said: Excellent links!! I’ve also been having twitching in random muscle groups for the past three weeks now. I do have chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia and I believe I may be having a flareup of those conditions which is causing the twitching. But of course, my health anxiety always keeps A** in the back of my mind. Those are terrific and reassuring articles....thank you!! What type of symtons do you get with fibromyalgia? I am asking because I wonder at times if that's what I have. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Missy2626 251 Posted January 8, 2019 Hi Cuban! You get all sorts of symptoms!! I was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome back in 1995, and after I had my second son via Caesarean section in 2002 I started developing extreme fatigue and crazy parasthesias throughout my body....Zappy and tingly sensations all over, feelings like bugs were crawling on my skin, and although I don’t recall exactly, I’m thinking I had muscle twitches as well. I went to a neuro and although he diagnosed me with “possible MS”, none of the MRIs showed any MS lesions. Fast forward sixteen years and I have no other symptoms suggestive of MS thankfully. But I did visit a rheumatologist several years ago who felt I had mild fibromyalgia. It can also cause a host of other symptoms, widespread aching, fatigue, and can impact just about every bodily system. Muscle twitches is a very common symptom of it. But I, like you and the others here, suffer from health anxiety and my mind wanders to ALS. At this moment, not only am I twitching but I also have the Zappy electric like shocky sensations throughout my body, so my rational minds tells me I’m in a flare up of fibromyalgia (whose symptoms are very similar to those of MS). I’ve had one medical issue after another lately...UTI, slipped disc in my back on Christmas, common cold, and now I’m dealing with having surgery on 1/30 to have my ENT surgeon remove a relatively rare papilloma inside my nose...I think all of those happenings and my mind in constant overdrive has caused the twitching! I promise you that you are just fine, my friend...as we can see from everyone’s recent posts, there are a heck of a lot of us currently in a state of twitching!!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cubanborn87 42 Posted January 8, 2019 15 minutes ago, Missy2626 said: Hi Cuban! You get all sorts of symptoms!! I was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome back in 1995, and after I had my second son via Caesarean section in 2002 I started developing extreme fatigue and crazy parasthesias throughout my body....Zappy and tingly sensations all over, feelings like bugs were crawling on my skin, and although I don’t recall exactly, I’m thinking I had muscle twitches as well. I went to a neuro and although he diagnosed me with “possible MS”, none of the MRIs showed any MS lesions. Fast forward sixteen years and I have no other symptoms suggestive of MS thankfully. But I did visit a rheumatologist several years ago who felt I had mild fibromyalgia. It can also cause a host of other symptoms, widespread aching, fatigue, and can impact just about every bodily system. Muscle twitches is a very common symptom of it. But I, like you and the others here, suffer from health anxiety and my mind wanders to ALS. At this moment, not only am I twitching but I also have the Zappy electric like shocky sensations throughout my body, so my rational minds tells me I’m in a flare up of fibromyalgia (whose symptoms are very similar to those of MS). I’ve had one medical issue after another lately...UTI, slipped disc in my back on Christmas, common cold, and now I’m dealing with having surgery on 1/30 to have my ENT surgeon remove a relatively rare papilloma inside my nose...I think all of those happenings and my mind in constant overdrive has caused the twitching! I promise you that you are just fine, my friend...as we can see from everyone’s recent posts, there are a heck of a lot of us currently in a state of twitching!!!! Thanks for Responding, that is very interesting. Right before my twitching started , I had pin and needles sensation through out my body for months. I also suffer from IBS, which when it started back in 2012 , I would also feel abdominal pains that has that same pin and needles sensation thought out. Now my back for the last couple of years has this very uncomfortable feeling which resembles a lot that pain and needles, electric zappy feeling to it. I also noticed a few months ago that Everytime I went running , my feet would feel like they were on fire the next day. This would not feel like normal soreness. Now I get tingling on my left foot non stop, my left hand also goes numb at night while I sleep. And of course the non stop twitching. I wonder if it's possible that I have something similar to fibromyalgia. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Missy2626 251 Posted January 8, 2019 I’m certainly no doctor, but fibromyalgia (which is not a debilitating or necessarily worrisome condition) could be a possibility. You’d be surprised how it can impact all of our bodily systems and myofacial pain and nerve pain is a big part of it. I most certainly do not advocate googling medical conditions for those of us with health anxiety, but you’d be safe to google “fibromyalgia Devin Starlanyl”..... she is an expert on the subject and I have several of her books which made sense for me of all of the myriad of symptoms I feel.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cubanborn87 42 Posted January 8, 2019 27 minutes ago, Missy2626 said: I’m certainly no doctor, but fibromyalgia (which is not a debilitating or necessarily worrisome condition) could be a possibility. You’d be surprised how it can impact all of our bodily systems and myofacial pain and nerve pain is a big part of it. I most certainly do not advocate googling medical conditions for those of us with health anxiety, but you’d be safe to google “fibromyalgia Devin Starlanyl”..... she is an expert on the subject and I have several of her books which made sense for me of all of the myriad of symptoms I feel.... Great!! Thanks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
