worried about ms

[finnsmommy]

New here. About two months ago I started having all over muscle twitching when resting. It would jump from my chin to my shoulder to my left and foot. It would do this until I feel asleep. About 3 weeks ago I started having a buzzing in the right arch of my foot with sporadic twitching
I got on dr Google and now have freaked myself out beyond belief that I have ms. I did a stupid neurological exam that said if u smile with lips closed and the corner of your mouth quivers you have something neurological going on...well of course now I see it doing it and  checking constantly in the mirror. Advise please .

[finnsmommy]

How are you feeling? Mine only does it when I'm still also. What are you worried that it is?

[finnsmommy]

Mines doing it right now, so frustrating...any other symptoms?

[JoJoBab]

Hi there,
Recently I joined this forum because I need to know that I'm not alone.
I have the exact same thing with the pulsing right foot!! I haven't been to a Neuro yet, because I, like you googled too much.
This happened to me approx 15 years ago. Minus the buzzing foot.
Came back in Sept. I only notice it when I'm still.
Help!

[finnsmommy]

The foot buzzing and twitching even when not asleep or falling asleep? That's not sleep starts. Also my eye and eyebrow does it. This is twitching when resting to falling asleep

[SarahL2491]

sleep starts, or what you describe are actually quite common in 60-70% of people, according to a site called Live Science.  There is an interesting article if you will google there!  

[finnsmommy]

My foot is constant...doing it now as I type. Only stops when using it

[finnsmommy]

Do you get a buzzing feeling? I've heard that can be part of parenthesis in ms?

[finnsmommy]

He didn't feel any test were nec. No not an ms specialist but has been a neuro for 21 years and works aside a ms specialist.

[kwarendorf]

Hi FM -

Brisk reflexes and twitching still don't make me think MS. Is your neuro an MS specialist? WHat tests have you had beyond the clinical exam?

Kyle

[finnsmommy]

I meant my left side and right foot.... My right foot in the only twitching that's seems to not want to go away

[finnsmommy]

I don't know where the rest of the above comment went but how annoying. I was saying that I did go see a neuro as the anxiety got the best of me. He seen the twitch above my left eyebrow which I see but cannot feel, he didn't comment on it either way just said, "yes I see it"...he never asked to see my foot twitching which I found odd...he also said a lot of the same things you guys have mentioned above. He did the neuro exam and stated the only thing I had was "brisk reflexes" (3+), which kind of concerned me as I know that can signal neurological damage. He did say I was brisk all over. The all over twitching has disapated mostly except for the foot, eyebrow, and now my right eye lid. So frustrating. I'm starting to get so in tuned that I actually feel like my left arm is weak and I'm having memory loss....I don't know if my mind is playing tricks on me or what...

[finnsmommy]

Hi Karry, thanks for your reply. I know what you mean about the sleep start twitches and I have had those before. These are different though...they are more of a pulsating heartbeat under the skin. I've even had them in my bum cheek sorry if TMI... They will just randomly happen...

[finnsmommy]

Sorry just now responding I dropped my phone in water oops

[kwarendorf]

"all over muscle twitching when resting. It would jump from my chin to my shoulder to my left and foot. It would do this until I feel asleep. About 3 weeks ago I started having a buzzing in the right arch of my foot with sporadic twitching"

Hi FM- Welcome to the group. The description above is atypical of MS. The nature of MS is that it attacks individual locations in the central nervous system. It does not attack the entire central nervous system. Messages that travel through the effected area(s) get corrupted. The corrupt iunformation causes symptoms. If the pathway that conveys information to your left foot is damaged you will have left foot symptoms. MS tends not to jump around.

Kyle

[karryon55]

You have been given some great advice already so I won't go over things that Karen has already mentioned. The way you explain the sudden jumping or muscle twitch whilst resting before you go to sleep sounds like sleep starts to me.

Many people have sleep starts including myself which is a benign phenomena. I can have them so bad I can almost jump off the bed but I never thought there was anything unusual about this. Maybe I'm wrong and someone can correct me here.

Unfortunately when googling your symptoms you are given a huge amount of innacurate information and a very wide range of conditions to choose from. If this is causing you so much distress then please seek medical advice from your GP and if still not satisfied ask for a referral to a neurologist.

Take Care & try not to worry.

Karry.

[Artanis12]

First, I'm sorry you're stressing, truly, but do try to stay away from Dr. Google in general when you're trying to explain an isolated symptom, but especially for non-specific symptoms like muscle twitches, because it's just human nature to gravitate to the least likely and generally scariest cause for things. And believe me, I loathe even the merest muscle twitch. But I remind myself (firmly) that they are in the vast majority of cases, nothing to fret over, even when they go on for a bit.

Muscle twitching is not generally one of those things that immediately screams MS. They can be caused by SO many things, the vast majority of them benign - stress, dehydration, fatigue, a pinched nerve, things like that.

If you are as bothered as you clearly are, and as you say, the twitching has continued unabated for months, I would get off the internet and get to a real doctor - a neuro, because none of us are qualified to do our own neurological exam, and you are truly putting the cart before the horse worrying to the level you are. Let the doc tell you how much you need to fret.  

So make that appointment, and don't be surprised if the twitching actually stops before you finally get in.  Stuff like that often does, and if it doesn't, well, you will be examined by someone with a real MD, not Dr. Google. ;-)

Try to stay calm...

Karen