Scared and looking for answers

[Daknel]

Okay, first off I know that no one here can actually DX me and that is okay. I'm just looking for support I guess.

With that being said, I am a 26yo male in a good health for the most part. I am overweight and have had blood test done cause I was feeling very shakey and always tired and the blood tests showed I have insulin resistance so the Dr gave me Metformin XR to take to help with that while i lose some weight. I'm not diebetic...YET and hopefully I won't get there.

Anyway. this whole thing started about a few months ago. I noticed both of my legs felt a little odd and my arms did too, they felt like they were weak but when I would stand on them and use them they didnt seem weak at all but they did tremble a little bit when i would use them but never had any problems lifting or anything like that, yet i still felt like something was wrong with me. I just felt very fatigued overall and slept a lot.

This feeling lasted for about a month and then went away completely just as my Mother and I went on vacation. I was thinking it might be stress cause my home life is VERY stressful. I'm worried about my future and my life ingeneral and how I'll get by,  normal worries i guess everyone has, but i've always taken things way worse than most people. I tend to dwell on things.

So, I was gone on vacation for about a week down south and I had no problems at all. NOTHING. Then shortly after I got back I started to get these little twitches in my arms and legs but its mostly on my left side. They're very minor but i can feel them and they last a few second then go away for hours or even a day or two then come back for a little bit.

They seem to go away when i use my muscles and walk around or use my arms. But, if I sit down or lay down for a bit they MAY come back, not always. Then about 2 weeks of it, it all went away again then one week later I started to feel the twitching again. It's still on my left side. My arm and leg.  the twitching in my leg is always these 2 spots. One in the back of my caff and the other on the side of my thigh. The twitching in my arm is random but isnt there so much as my leg. And of course the tiredness and wanting to sleep it back but its not every day i feel tired.

Lately I've noticed other places in my body twitching like my buttox and my left hip side. Weird huh?

Every since this started I've been googling the symptoms over and over and driving myself totally insane. I've read up about all the symptoms of MS and I only have 2 of the huge list of symptoms that are normally associated with MS.  I've never any vision problems, no falling no loss of balance ever. No family history of MS. No pain, no sensitiveity to heat... nothing but the randomly twitching muscles and being tired off and on.

I wonder if maybe this is all stress anxity and depression and the worrying is just caused by my brain which makes the symptoms worse. My mother is a R.N. and says that it is all in my head and that I'm acting nuts.
This worrying about my health has destroyed my social life. I use to be the person who would always wanna go out and have fun and I did go 2 a week but that has stopped completely. I dont' feel like going out, i dont even feel like answering the phone when my friend call and they're pretty much stopped calling me now and moved on.

I don't feel like even leaving my room sometimes. I'll just stay on my computer and my games and talk to a couple online friends and that's pretty much my life right now. I don't feel like doing anything unless I feel 100% good, if there is even ONe tiny little thing i feel then i dwell on it and it ruins my whole day.

I really need help and answers. Does this sound like something or is it just normal and my brain is making me think it's abnormal.

Thank you...



Ever since this started ive bee

[Lulu54]

Hi and welcome to the forum here.  I want to start by correcting Sharon.... there are lots of great knowledgeable people here who will jump in and help, not just us community leaders.  We rely on each other a lot.

My instinct, and its just that because I am not a medical person, is that this is not MS.  The pattern of the twitching just doesn't match the usual MS presentation.

Elevated glucose/diabetes can cause all sorts of problems and perhaps it is the root cause of your twitches as well?  

A couple things you mentioned in your post stand out to me though ... you have secluded yourself from your friends, your are worrying about your future, you have an unknown health problem hanging around.  Do you think that you could be experiencing depression as well?  Can you talk to your doctor about this possibility and perhaps try drug therapy and maybe add in talk therapy too?

My doctor and I talked about my behavior this summer and he recommended an anti-depressant for me.  Honestly, I'm not sure if it is making a difference but my family tells me they think it has.  Depression is just a hard thing to figure out and even harder to beat on our own without help.

I hope you will come back and ask all the questions you need - we may not have the answers but we are pretty good at listening.

be well,
Lulu

[coco31]

Daknel,

Hello and welcome. I am not as knowledgable as a lot of members here and have only become diagnosed with MS recently. But I can however offer you support based upon my MS experience to date:

There is such a thing as benign fasculation syndrome and there are many factors which contribute to it. I would perhaps take a look at that 1st instead of driving yourself crazy wondering if there is a more sinister cause.

Finally there are wonder group leaders here (you'll see the purple type star after there name) and they are truly full of knowledge and great suggestions on finding out more information.

Perhaps I've not been of much help .... but maybe try BFS as your first port of call especially if you are not experiencing any other symptoms which would mimic symptoms of MS.... and dont worry...................