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Muscle atrophy question
by valger59, Apr 05, 2007 12:00AM
Hi~~
First of all, thank you so much for the help I get on here. These boards make me feel so much better.
Just to update quickly, I've been having widespread body twitches for about two weeks now. I hadn't noticed any other symptoms, other than maybe some weakness AFTER I had read about the connection between that and ALS. Generally, I can do anything that I used to be able to do. The thing I was wondering about was muscle atrophy. I happened to notice tonight when I was laying on the bed that right above my right ankle up about an inch or so looks like an indent in my skin. This scared me, because I had never noticed that before. My other leg seems to have something generally similar, but not as bad. Am I just looking for things, or does this sound like muscle atrophy? I don't know if it's always been there or what. Now, I am really in a panic tonight, this has me worried, because I thought before I just had BFS, and now if this is muscle atrophy, that would be bad, right? Are some indents normal around the leg/ankle area? Would it be unusual to atrophy on the other leg in the same place, or does it usually atrophy in a symetrical way? Thanks so much for any help! Val
First of all, thank you so much for the help I get on here. These boards make me feel so much better.
Just to update quickly, I've been having widespread body twitches for about two weeks now. I hadn't noticed any other symptoms, other than maybe some weakness AFTER I had read about the connection between that and ALS. Generally, I can do anything that I used to be able to do. The thing I was wondering about was muscle atrophy. I happened to notice tonight when I was laying on the bed that right above my right ankle up about an inch or so looks like an indent in my skin. This scared me, because I had never noticed that before. My other leg seems to have something generally similar, but not as bad. Am I just looking for things, or does this sound like muscle atrophy? I don't know if it's always been there or what. Now, I am really in a panic tonight, this has me worried, because I thought before I just had BFS, and now if this is muscle atrophy, that would be bad, right? Are some indents normal around the leg/ankle area? Would it be unusual to atrophy on the other leg in the same place, or does it usually atrophy in a symetrical way? Thanks so much for any help! Val
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Thats the wrong place to look for atrophy especially for motor neuron diseases (ALS is one of them)
Bob
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