Als anxiety reddit. The reality is, none of this is helpful.

• Als anxiety reddit I haven't visited this community in a long time, and I'm not convinced my worries are completely gone, but I feel like I've finally convinced myself that anxiety really and truly causes all kinds of bodily symptoms that people don't normally consider. gg/r-anxiety |… My worst nightmare is that my anxiety was right all along. Take care of yourself, take care of your anxiety and all will be well. Anybody else experienced ALS fear? And if so, which was the main factors which made you discard the illness? Did you do any EMG or any other exam? I'm having heavy fasciculations all over my body (arms, legs, shoulders) and I can't stop fixating on that horrible disease. You always go to the incredibly small chance that the neuro is wrong or you're just a "weird" case. I do not have ALS. My right arm and legs just feel achy and jelly like… Welcome to a place for everyone who identifies with having health anxiety, is an ally of someone with health anxiety, or just wants to learn more about our growing community. I have a laundry list of symptoms that get worse every day. PS - I had a history of anxiety and stress , like about other health issues like chest pain referring it to heart attack, pain in thes testicles thinking of torsion and also got the reports evaluated by specialist which were normal acc to them Can anyone if has any ideas about ALS , please let me know , and does it affect at this age according I'm utterly horrified I have ALS. I had all those symptoms too. I'm currently down the ALS rabbit hole, researching anything and everything about it, showering the sub-reddits of symptoms that match mine etc. I went to my primary she did not seem to worried but sent me to nuro because of the weakness issue … she brushed it off as anxiety… So, I was worried if I had ALS, and instantly tried x15 biceps-curl, x5 side lateral raise with 12L of water, and was fine. I tend to clench my jaws subconsciously when I am going through an anxiety spiral ,then there's inexplicable body ache- headache,back pain, feeling drained of all energy. Posted by u/TheMaleOT - No votes and 1 comment Jul 20, 2014 · For some people anxiety will surface in the tradional panic attack, much seems to be written on this side of anxiety and this is not what we are concerned with here. is concerned about my high blood pressure. hey there! it went away. Exercising, walking, playing video games, whatever. I would study every forum and read all about als. Went to the doctors and he sent be for a blood test just in case I had some kind of infection, but he was sure I was feeling the way I did due to anxiety. If you're drinking water all day. This feeling of emptiness awakened my health anxiety that I have suffered from all my life (I think I have had health anxiety since I was a child. And I'm so sorry for the anxiety and fear you must be facing. Get evaluated, fine. Also, fun fact, around 2015, I thought I had ALS at the time, which made me feel unfocused in school and literally kept seeing my arms and legs to see if I had spasms and twitching. Been going on for three months now. That said, I would caution you against comparing your symptoms to any one else's experience. See full list on alsnewstoday. When I’m calm, and my symptoms are gone (Key: ALS doesn’t come and go). On a personal note, I am 31F and relatively healthy. But depending on who you ask, ALS is either rare or incredibly rare ranging from 1 out of 1,000 and 2. Every time you give in to anxiety, it grows a little bit. I had irrational anxiety. The twitching has gone away now but my arms feel funny or heavy or something. Realize that in ALS weakness is the primary symptom. Did some squats, and was fine too. And the situation which triggered my ALS anxiety again: yesterday I should carry a heavy oven with another person. Then my back came about, so I shifted my focus onto that. I’ve had so many bizarre symptoms like cramping, pains in my body, twitches, fingers licking and tensing up, objects becoming heavier, and weird hand symptoms overall. Just simply anxiety. At the time nothing on the internet could convince me it wasn't ALS. The thing is ALS starts like muscle weakness and hands and feet weakness which makes me the most frustrated causing a deep adrenaline of anxiety boosting within me. of course the ALS fears kicked in. Anxiety is high as i have 2 children and the thought of ALS has me an absolute train wreck trying to put on a brave face. At the gym, I kept thinking I would dr The ALS fear comes from Anxiety. Thought I had anxiety, turned out it was untreated high blood pressure. Blood pressure is much better now and my anxiety has all but evaporated. But you are fine. Fast forward a few years and new Dr. I too thought about life with ALS, the effects of my family, and the 1-5 year life expectancy. Anyone having ALS anxiety, please read this. He did an EMG, look me dead in the eyes, told me I did not have ALS. The reality is, none of this is helpful. I did tons of reading and watching videos about it. I'm a 24 year old male and I've been diagnosed with OCD and anxiety so typically I've always had a ton of health anxiety over the years. I think that our hope is to one day do a Google search and find a website that gives us a 100% guarantee that we don't have ALS. . I began twitching through out my body 2 months ago. I'm 25m and have had health anxiety for a long long time. And I'm not sure my symptoms are due to anxiety which is scaring me . i over think it so much to the point that it literally keeps me up at night. think about the odds of you being one of the only people in the world to get ALS. As far as I understand it, it's caused by the combination of shallow breathing and lower levels of serotonin, both caused by anxiety. But in my opinion this feeds anxiety. Part of me knows this is just anxiety because I find myself constantly googling symptoms of neurological diseases or looking on Reddit for others who are experiencing the same thing. My anxiety has calmed to zero basically, however I will still mix up words and throw out a jumbled spoken word. As many before me have said, MND experts will tell you they can spot ALS from a mile away, even in very early stages. For context I suffer from GAD and lately health anxiety. Hi guys! I’m a 21 year old male. It happened around the time I was 18 and had lost my dad to ALS a month before. Anxiety focuses from subject to another and once you are really not worried about heart palpitations anymore or they're somehow resolved your anxiety will find something else: a tingling leg making yo think you have ALS. But this sounds like anxiety to me. You already have a probable diagnosis (BFS), and ALS is not likely in your case. Good morning, I hate that I'm typing this shaking and afraid in a dark room. My neuro and pcp both assured me that, in fact. Posted by u/ExpertBrief2435 - 4 votes and 8 comments No, you do not have ALS. i hate it when people talk about illnesses/diseases Discussion and support for sufferers and loved ones with anxiety conditions | discord. Unless you've been clinically diagnosed by a qualified physician your chances of getting it are literally 1/100,000. You need to not watch those videos! Not one thing you say sounds like ALS and, in fact, points away from it. Last year for a few months I was having so much anxiety about ALS that it was consuming my life. They’re gone for now, even if they come back NOT ALS. Currently I'm afraid I have ovarian cancer, but I've also had ALS in my mind. e. I realized I don’t have ALS. Secondly ALS - Dr. Point being, don't worry about it and focus on treating the problems you actually have, like health anxiety or carpal tunnel syndrome. Thirdly GERD/LPR - I think this is actually correct because I've had the symptoms for a while and they don't go away. 🙄 Anxiety of ALS or MS I’m 21 years old and been dealing with constant twitching all over body… also lots of cramping in hands, feet, and thighs…. I suggest that you bookmark it as well and just read it whenever you start obsessing over symptoms that you think are ALS. I have a similar compulsion as you, which is to go searching on the internet and see what other people have to say about twitching and ALS etc. Since then, I’m body scanning obsessively, wondering if everything I hold feels “heavy”, spiraling when I happen to drop any Try not to go down the rabbit hole. I don’t know what to do about it. However, my anxiety now views any sensation or symptom I experience through the lens of neurological disorders. I've always struggled with "fine motor skills" since preschool, and it takes me longer to button things which is kind of embarrassing given I'm 19 years old. 659K subscribers in the Anxiety community. As the condition progresses, patients usually retain their mental reasoning, thinking, and sensory abilities. i also experience shortness of breath CONSTANTLY, like i don't even remember the last time i could take a full deep breath. k. The experience of seeing him literally deteriorate traumatized me. This video helped me a bit, but in my opinion the best thing to do is to try to completely stop googling anything about it. Surprisingly, my anxiety subsided as I had something to work towards. I have twitched for almost 3 years and I have no symptoms other than twitching and anxiety. When the motor neurons die, the ability of the brain to initiate and control muscle movement is lost. At that moment, can't do much to alleviate the pain,just wait for the panic to subside. gg/r-anxiety | Please look over the rules before posting to the subreddit Members Online Away_Cardiologist245 Strong neuropathic sensations in the evening, lung, burning, more twitching, muscles hurt so much after very low usage. With voluntary muscle action Developing ALS between 18 and 39 is a 2 in 1,000,000 chance (even less likely without familial disposition). radical acceptance) We coalesce here to reclaim control of our lives through: education, sharing experiences, sharing management techniques, sharing resources, exposing stigma & norms, and advancing the discussion & awareness around Health Anxiety (a. this year our primary physician started her on Natural Herbs Centre ALS/MND Ayurvedic treatment, 6 months into treatment she improved dramatically. If it comes and goes it’s not ALS, if you pass the doctor test it’s not ALS. gg/r-anxiety | Please look over the rules before posting to the subreddit Members Online Partner slept 22 hours yesterday :( Benign muscle fasciculation syndrome most likely. About six weeks ago I went on a pretty unhealthy diet (<1500 calories) and I'm sure that might have caused some nutrient deficiencies. He ordered a brain MRI which was completely normal. Anxiety just does that when it gets really bad. Generally speaking 2. There are so many options for anxiety in ALS. Fixating in your mind that you have ALS can cause anxiety, which among other things will cause tingling, twitching, a feeling of clumsiness, etc. gg/r-anxiety | Please look over the rules before posting to the subreddit ALS fear is probably the singular most common health anxiety after cancer, despite how rare the actual condition is. I started crying a lot about having ALS cause I just believe that I do . I'd gander that whatever you're experiencing is not ALS (again, I'm not a doctor) as ALS is pretty swift and severe. Or check it out in the app stores &nbsp; Help with ALS anxiety: super focusing on leg symptoms . I lost about 12 months to crippling anxiety. And I drool a lot lmao I think you're fine!! But because I worked with ALS patients and because I was reading so much about it, I felt like I knew ALS better than they did and didn't trusted them. Long-acting low dose benzos, CBD oil (of course, never vaping or smoking), massage, RoM exercises, nature, music, YouTube art collections, watching old movies, listening to you talk, Zoom with a child, meeting with a trusted friend/clergy, audiobooks. anyone else’s anxiety cause swallowing issues? i’ve been experiencing bulbar sensation for what feels like over two months now. I am just 23 years old, but I am having extensive anxiety about the prospect of me having ALS. We coalesce here to reclaim control of our lives through: education, sharing experiences, sharing management techniques, sharing resources, exposing stigma & norms, and advancing the discussion & awareness around Health Anxiety (a. Of course, I'm no expert by any means- but personally, it sounds normal to me. ALS and MS are very common fears for health anxiety sufferers because the symptoms they present with mimic a lot of other NORMAL sensations, or sensations that can be caused by anxiety. The reason why is obvious; it's an extremely scary disease with insidious onset and 100% fatality, but most importantly muscle twitching is considered a symptom - which just so happens to be a frequent complaint of anxious people. And i think this is the reason why your symptoms occur again - and others come up. Check out my long post from a few days ago in the BFS and SFN community threads. But since then, I am devastated, and the anxiety/panic strikes from time to time. And the demands and rigors is exactly why ALS is one of the top, if not the top, law school in the country. think of all the reasons you DONT have als, and this sounds crazy, but tell yourself them in third person and tell yourself to calm down. I have confirmed SFN based on a skin punch biopsy. Other Issues - Anxiety Anxiety can be a real problem that can endanger your physical health and is a self-fueling fire—the more anxious you become, the more twitches you will have, the more you obsess with perceived weakness in your arm or leg or hand, the more dents you will find… and the more you will become convinced you have atrophy From Brain Tumor anxiety to ALS anxiety. After doing some more research and talking with several family members and going back through all of my moms siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, parents, grandparents and other extended family no one else has had ALS. Now, I’ll start off by saying we all know that at a young age, one can get these diseases( I did a stupid thing and looked into the Parkinson’s forum and found a young man my age (19) who has recently been diagnosed with it, so it should come at no surprise that I’m terrified It's likely just anxiety. The twitching still happens all the time. It’s mostly an annoyance. The weakness is really scaring me. despite of taking multiple vitamins and reducing my stress and anxiety i still have constant stiffed knees from 2 months and other physical symptoms, I know I've developed some disease from extreme anxiety and sometimes they can't be diagnosed easily But the hard thing is - you have to learn to believe it, and that is so hard in relation, that your brain is trained in catastrophic thinking through anxiety. If it just flared up after reading about ALS, its anxiety. I bookmarked this link because I believe it is incredibly direct and helpful. Curious if anybody else had these symptoms and is it something serious or just a little bit of maybe anxiety. You’re completely at the mercy of your genetics and you can’t control it. 001% of people, primarily older adults. Here's how I deal--Go do something you like doing. This lasted months/years. One doctor said it might be als but shouldn't be the case for ms. I probably have a neurological disease but I don’t think it’s ALS. gg/r-anxiety | Please look over the rules before posting to the subreddit Members Online Ok-Cartographer4977 Well neurological diseases are relentless. Feb 6, 2023 · Depression and anxiety are common among people with ALS, especially soon after getting a diagnosis. ALS is one of my biggest fears now. I don't wish that to my worst enemy. 007%. No ALS, no disease of any sort. 5 out of 100,000. and nothing helps it go away. it was/is 100% anxiety. For example, if I cough, I now think bulbar ALS or something else damaging those nerves rather than a cold, flu, COVID, or any other respiratory ailment. i had the worst worries about breast cancer and this helped it basically go away. Now, I don't even know what to do - not even scared of these diagnoses anymore, have lived with it for too long. Anxiety has caused me to stutter and slur a lot of words. I checked into to the ER about 8 times in a 3 month span ( Dec - Feb) , saw my primary ( who said it was anxiety ) tried to put me on meds that I refused. Hyperreflexia is common, especially in anxious individuals. 16M. That was 6 months ago and I don't feel any different, and ALS usually progresses quite fast I believe. i have no idea why and what’s causing it. It's not a psychosomatic pain. It has been a complete turnaround with her speech, she no longer needs the feeding tube to feed, the treatment is a miracle. BFS is annoying but ultimately harmless. That thinking got me over it after about a year, but now we’re back to it. They found nothing wrong with me. You might just have a tired muscle or something and your anxiety is making it worse than it seems. For the past year I’ve been petrified of ALS (AKA Lou Gehrig’s Disease). it is always anxiety. Posted by u/[Deleted Account] - 7 votes and 9 comments I actually got drop foot via nerve damage and it set off a years-long journey of medical anxiety. I try to find other things it could be but anxiety takes control of every thought and the cloud of impending doom follows me. Dying forward is when upper motor neurons fail and cause lower motor neurons to also die. Of course with my anxiety that equals a 100% chance I’ll get ALS. Was terrified I had ALS or a serious neurological issue, caused so much anxiety & stress for months. It's just the anxiety of thinking about it is making me feel scared and worried that I can't help but think I have this. ALS is the new fear on my mind. Lyme can affect everything. Also feels like I have extra saliva in mouth with slurring some words / getting words mixed up. did a few reflex and sensitivity exercises and I was fine. Been going through therapy for a few months but it doesn’t seem to help :( Hello, I am a 19 year old man named Matthew. Your anxiety is getting the best of you. I read up on ALS a week ago and 5 minutes after i did i started having body twitching everywhere nonstop for the last week. I thought I had ALS when my fasciculations began. Puts me on a medication. e a neuro to assess atrophy your general physician can do that. Although I’m able to use strength in my muscle on instinct and coordination also feels fine till now. This has made me an absolute mess and really put a damper on things. ALS is the most commonly (mis)diagnosed illness by those suffering from Health Anxiety. Checked out Dr Google and was convinced I had ALS. You are fine. Also my left hand is weaker/shakier/more pain than my right. gg/r-anxiety | Please look over the rules before posting to the subreddit I have health anxiety however most of the time my fears were evolved around brain tumours and heart attacks, however I recently learned more about Als and suddenly this has became my main fear. You're in the clear. It’s not ALS, ALS is when you have clinical weakness and you can’t do regular everyday things like lift up a coffee mug or turn in your keys or left up your hand. For a sizable group of people when anxiety starts to manifest itself physically it is through physical sesnations that effect various aspects of our nervous system. That’s probably why it causes anxiety. It all started before last summer, I was walking down a staircase and I felt a void in the back of my head This feeling of emptiness awakened my health anxiety that I have suffered from all my life (I think I have had health anxiety since I was a child. Anxiety causes a crazy amount of symptoms related to ALS, MS or Parkinsons. Hi Reddit, Two weeks ago, I started experiencing weakness on one side of my body which eventually spread around and hasn’t gone away. My anxiety has convinced me I've had heart attacks, strokes, blood clots and about every form of cancer I've ever read about. I had more MRI w contrast this time. gg/r-anxiety | Please look over the rules before posting to the subreddit Members Online ejsfsc07 Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. What you’re most likely experiencing is anxiety induced symptoms that mimic a motor neuron disease. of the brain the only thing that changed from the last one was a change in my white matter ( a little dot ) doctor said it could be from the migraines . Then when I saw a neurologist the second time and was cleared, I was able to finally accept that my symptoms were in fact anxiety based. Get the Reddit app Scan this QR code to download the app now. I know yall aren't doctors and I should check with a doctor but I have had a bunch tell me different things. I recognize that I am close to insane with my health anxiety. I recommend seeing a psychiatrist and perhaps some therapy. Fortunately my back has begun to heal, unfortunately that means my mind has begun to wander again. Posted by u/ghost_on_ghost - No votes and 17 comments this is what i do to calm down. com Dec 5, 2023 · Anxiety is common among people newly diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and their family members, a small study from Sweden reports. Same with them. I actually showed the recording to a doctor in the emergency, I did not slurre the whole recording but it was a recording of 10 seconds where I slurred for like 3 seconds of it and showed it and he just said yes you slurred during that word but he thinks it’s anxiety and he was so unaware of Als and wasn’t a neurologist he just seemed stressed over all and not knowing what to say or do, I Physical manifestations of anxiety are pretty bad. I made the worst mistake of my life three months ago when I googled “index finger twitching”. People without anxiety don’t even tend to notice it. Illness Anxiety & Hypochondriasis) in its many forms in our own societal realms. For a vast majority of people with that fear, it's unfortunately not as easy as just accepting what the neuro says- a brain fighting anxiety doesn't work that way. Welcome to a place for everyone who identifies with having health anxiety, is an ally of someone with… 33yo female. First thing that came to mind is neuro-Lyme. Considering the devastating nature of the disease, a high prevalence of depression and anxiety in affected patients would be expected. If you suspect that you have something since 2008 - you wouldn't have lasted til this day or it would have manifested itself in all it's beauty. My anxiety hit me hard …. 4 people per 100,000 develop ALS per year (however the biggest chunk of them being between 50 and 70 years old and male). saw a myriad of doctors and a few neurologists and ALL were positive it was Anxiety, caffeine, and even hyper focusing on the nerve/organ can cause twitching/ strange sensations. I used to watch the twitches in my leg and get really scared. I understand your curiosity and need for more information. ALS is a truly awful. This year I had a few things happen at once which triggered mental health anxiety (multiple health things along with work stress), I kept having my little two fingers on both hands twitch alone, they would feel hard to move and hard to do things with. Anxiety is a bitch and fighting a battle with yourself is hard but you'll come out the other side and life will feel normal again. For anyone with this fear I promise you the actual possibility is so lowsomeone told me it's like 0. In my experience, neuros with MND expertise are looking for totally different warning signs for ALS than we are based on our Google searching and non-medical understanding. I didn’t even think about it until last Sunday when I… I’ve had had twitching of my eye lid and area around my sternum/upper abdominal muscles for a long while, but after descending into a deep bout of healthy anxiety last summer I really got it bad in my calves, thighs and even knees. I also have the same anxiety rn. I’ve had it for the past 15 years. Over the 20-month period since the onset of your eye twitching, it's reasonable to expect that you would have experienced some additional symptom progression beyond just tongue twitching if ALS were present. My father's symptoms started with tingling in his legs and slurred speech. Random muscle twitches all over the body, while not uncommon for me, the frequency was pretty high. This is the basis of all treatment for anxiety. How did your appointment go? I try to remind myself how rare ALS in our age group. Discussion and support for sufferers and loved ones with anxiety conditions | discord. As you get your anxiety under control it will become less noticeable and may go away entirely. Please seek help for yourself. You wouldn’t be able to do 30 push-ups if you had clinical weakness, and it starts in one location before spreading to another. My docs say that SFN doesn’t do cause the ALS like symptoms that I’m experiencing but many on reddit say that SFN can cause many symptoms. gg/r-anxiety | Please look over the rules before posting to the subreddit Members Online Rorschach72 Another was a friend who watched a documentary on ALS who developed symptoms and is fine. My best friend's mom has very aggressive ALS and after she was diagnosed I had health anxiety about it myself. Also I’m convinced it’s als due to the fact that I can’t find anything else that matches my symptoms, And tysm for the help, I just need a better idea as to whether or not me and others should be worried, because right noe i’m in a constant state of depression, anxiety, and panic Discussion and support for sufferers and loved ones with anxiety conditions | discord. That wasn't good enough for my anxiety so I know that it may not be for you, but you will overcome this. MS is a strong, I mean very strong numbness on your fingertips, toes, legs and arms. From Brain Tumor anxiety to ALS anxiety. The main issues that makes my afraid of is hands feeling weird and stiffed . As for your second question, I'm actually not sure. Only a doctor and assess atrophy, you don't need a specialist i. I know I know , it sounds like a huge anxiety thing, but lately my legs have been twitching a lot and I’ve been having terrible fatigue, and body aches lately. Of course I'm not a doctor, but muscle twitching seems to exacerbate with anxiety, among other symptoms (tingling, even numbness). At first I thought it was GERD causing my esophagus to get irritated, but then I thought it could be anxiety, and now I keep thinking ALS. im 16 and these past couple months my anxiety has been crazy,ive constantly been thinking i have a life threatening illness like cancers or anything, a lot of people say its because of weed but ive been smoking for 7 years now (ik terrible) but at first it was me thinking i was having a stroke, i would look at my camera and think my face was Posted by u/RachelUpInHere - 2 votes and 4 comments Acupuncture eased her anxiety a bit. My doctor said it was just caused by my anxiety. A lot of law students would want to be where you are now, but you yourself would have to work to stay here and finish strong. Still had anxiety but had the breathing and meditation to help cope. Being in ALS is both a prestige and a responsibility. Our nervous system is insane. my counsellor says that reassurance seeking is a sign that anxiety is still there even if I don’t feel it physically. Anxiety brings your hormones out of order and causes real symptomes -even inflamtions are possible. I finally found a neurologist, a really old man, that had been working in hospitals with ALS for decades. Used both arms for carrying. I don't know much about ALS besides the basics but since you seem interested, ALS is generally a progressive disease and there's 2 main hypotheses on how it propagates: dying forward and dying backward. They stopped around 1 month ago and know only happen rarely. I began noticing my left hands is a bit shaky, but after I googled into the shaky hands symptoms, I began having more anxieties about neuron-damage diseases. It’s so hard to not think I have MS/ALS something awful when technically there are still tests they could run (I know I should trust the doctors when they say I don’t have those Consult with a doctor. ALS is an extremely common fear for those with health anxiety and a terrible hole to get into. i also can’t tell if my anxiety is causing it OR if i am having anxiety because of it. Well it’s 6 or 7 years later and here I am so clearly I was wrong. Each time the symptoms seemed to be so real, each time they were lies. As long as your neurologist thought you were fine, I'd think you'd be clear of ALS after the MRI. Absolutely terrified, I am 22 years old, Male, White. Currently, it’s been shoulder/arm weakness and pain for weeks now, with the occasional mouth sore and right leg numbness. Now, I'm worried I have MS or ALS. He repeatedly strength tested me, noted I had globally brisk reflexes, and stated that I absolutely don't have ALS and that this is all caused by a somatoform disorder. Anxiety can make it worse. As others have said: You mention three different things Unsteady shakiness in legs - non-specific, doesn't really mean anything. Try to keep in mind that ALS is extremely rare, and I think the fact that it's been in the news lately has been what is making you worry. Anxiety really does cause all sorts of physical symptoms, but it can be managed and the symptoms will lessen or go away entirely. The goal is to recognize that it is purely discomfort and there is really nothing to be afraid of. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Second thing was myositis. I had ALS anxiety 2 years ago. I feel as if my left hand feels tighter than right and struggle to move it in same ways I do the right. I went to the neurologist got checked out and he informed me I did not have ALS. I am 20 suffer from anxiety issues and I am terrified of getting ALS. Try to think positive :D Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Same boat with you, I’m 23, suffer from anxiety, and ALS is my biggest fear. I started having “perceived” weakness in my arms a few weeks ago. So a couple of things helped pull me out of the anxious cycle I was in. Hard. I lost my grandpa in September 2019 to ALS. I had eyelid, stomach, and tongue twitches for 3 years until it just decided to go away. I read about ALS recently and began spiraling. I felt very good internally for a pretty decent chunk of time. I’m a nurse and started googling symptoms and ALS was one of the first things that popped up. My anxiety started after reading about it as well. The thing about anxiety is it does whatever it damn well pleases. Guys, please, so you don’t end up like me Visit a Neuro. Thanks! ALS is genetic issue, there’s no cure and you can’t prevent it. Every time you face it, it shrinks a little bit. Anxiety makes you uncomfortable, but it is not harmful. ALWAYS face your fears. I know this fear is immense. I'd say that everyone here has thought that they've had it at one point. EVERYTHING I have seen online pretty much points to ALS. it is so stressful, and I cannot even sleep at night, and sweat alot during night thinking I might have ALS or other types of MS. It's like my meta-anxiety. But once I had an EMG, I kind of stopped worrying about it. Jeez I had the whole ALS/MS scare too. An anxiety that overlooks everyone of them. When my anxiety was gone, all of my symptoms go away. Work on your anxiety and watch your symptoms fade away. So 2 months I got muscle twitches in my legs and some on my back. Major anxiety started making the twitches worse and then the reflux came. 95K subscribers in the HealthAnxiety community. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal motor neuron disease with no curative treatment. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. Labs are notoriously bad with Lyme, and depending on the region, can be tough to find a dr, so do your research, so you can rule it out. On the hopeful side : Twitching by itself has very poor sensitivity and specificity for ALS, and twitching in ALS appears usually later rather than sooner. I’ve also started twitching a LOT, and Ive lost about 10 lbs and my muscles seem smaller. Hi, having gone through rather extreme anxiety myself, all these symptoms symptoms sound like simply physical portion of anxiety symptoms. I started reading about ALS and then my arms started to feel weak and the twitching consisted. I immediately started having a panic attack and have been in a constant state of severe anxiety/panic attacks since. I saw my neurologist FOUR times for this issue. Anxiety can mimic hundreds if not thousands of symptoms. It led to a GAD diagnosis eventually which actually helped, oddly. Anxiety is a bitch and even if you don't feel anxious, the underlying worry affects the body/mind. Unless you did gene testing and know for sure you don’t have the gene, there’s a lot of unknown. This makes ALS a rare neurodegenerative disease while being the most common motoneuron disease. About 6 or 7 years ago, I had myself convinced I had ALS. Students get kicked out because ALS is just so demanding. For example, when I got water in my ear I thought I was going to die, and when I felt nauseous with a pain in my chest after smoking for the first time, I was 100% convinced I had lung cancer). My husband twitches all the time and can’t even tell but I can when he sleeps next to me and his body touches mine. gg/r-anxiety | Please look over the rules before posting to the subreddit Members Online Three truths to battle intrusive thoughts (I. Essentially, I'm physically manifesting my And that's because a health anxiety disorder is never truly about health and always about anxiety. Many people might have thise from time to time and it might have a million causes, the most likely of them, by far, being "nothing" Posted by u/dahliavandyke - 2 votes and 2 comments i'm terrified that my symptoms might be because of a heart problem and that i'll get a sudden heart attack (it sounds stupid i know:/). I’m smack down in the middle of a bout of ALS anxiety. All clear I guess. I started having random “twitches” throughout my entire body 2 weeks after the birth of my second child almost 5 years ago. I’ve no weakness with my twitches and more pain associated with it than anything. I watched a lot of YT videos on health anxiety and eventually understood that anxiety can actually produce the symptoms I was experiencing. The next thing though is that I work carrying stuff. I didn’t know where else to go, I didn’t want to go to the ALS community out of respect for the pain they are going through. But do you get anxiety anytime you get headaches? What about heartburns? Do you get anxiety and get terrified? It could be a heart attack but are you actively thinking about that? Why are you so fixated on Twitching then? You are statistically much much more likely to die from heart attack and stroke and tumors rather than ALS. Anxiety can cause a wide host of symptoms. Hey man, So I’m 26, until this year I’ve been sweet as, perfectly healthy, exercised plenty active etc etc. As of the past 7 days my ring finger on my left hand has felt off, weak, sluggish, and lacking coordination. I then started to notice my left leg is much smaller than my right, which also may be because of skateboarding my whole life and the injury’s I had sustained on it…. As a person with real atrophy of my left leg (although I'm down the *** rabbithole and it currently ruining my life) I realistically know my VERY real muscle wastage and leg atrophy are for the following reasons: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. a. ALS or anxiety Had some stiffness in thumbs and twitching throughout legs / arms. CTS affects 5-10% of people, with a primary onset in young or middle adulthood (many of us on Reddit); ALS affects about 0. rbpwfq zrfgo qslbp sent pzmyjd plerlj ygpruv bpsh dpurptpn ujutir