I completely appreciate that you guys don't really like people coming on here when they're undiagnosed and suffer from anxiety but I've been reading a lot of posts on here, doing the worst thing that anxious people can do and I know I'm being stupid but it's got me concerned.
I've been experiencing muscle twitching in the last 8 days, predominantly in my left leg, but also getting random twitches in other areas. I'd talked myself through my fears and established that I don't have any of the other common symptoms people experience when they are developing MND but then today I had a random thought about reflexes and the hammer test. I sat on a high surface and tapped both knees with a kitchen ladle and have worried myself even more now because the reflexes seemed much faster than I feel they should be.
Briefly, I have been doing a lot of exercise over the last 18 months to help get through all this craziness with the pandemic. I have suffered with anxiety, specifically health anxiety, for many years but it seems to have resurfaced with a vengeance in the last week. I know that anxiety in itself can cause higher reflex responses and of course twitching so am trying to talk myself down but as it says 'brisk reflex is common in people with ALS' i am now even more concerned.
I just wanted to know whether everyone who has been diagnosed had twitching and brisk reflexes and apologise again for bothering anyone with my anxiety.
Rich
I've been experiencing muscle twitching in the last 8 days, predominantly in my left leg, but also getting random twitches in other areas. I'd talked myself through my fears and established that I don't have any of the other common symptoms people experience when they are developing MND but then today I had a random thought about reflexes and the hammer test. I sat on a high surface and tapped both knees with a kitchen ladle and have worried myself even more now because the reflexes seemed much faster than I feel they should be.
Briefly, I have been doing a lot of exercise over the last 18 months to help get through all this craziness with the pandemic. I have suffered with anxiety, specifically health anxiety, for many years but it seems to have resurfaced with a vengeance in the last week. I know that anxiety in itself can cause higher reflex responses and of course twitching so am trying to talk myself down but as it says 'brisk reflex is common in people with ALS' i am now even more concerned.
I just wanted to know whether everyone who has been diagnosed had twitching and brisk reflexes and apologise again for bothering anyone with my anxiety.
Rich
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