Perceived Weakness VS Clinical Weakness EXPLAINED
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Another good point to mention is feeling stiff, tight or having weaker muscles due to inactivity or over activity is NOT the same as ALS weakness. Physiotherapists will often refer to muscles being ‘weak’, but it’s usually in relation to a muscle injury or because you haven’t exercised enough to build strength etc. If you can’t lift your foot off the ground when you walk, that is true weakness. Feeling achey, stiff and tight.. not the same x
Yes 👏🏽
@Firelight27 How are you now?
This could be my “weakness feeling in my legs” I stopped going to the gym past 3 months and maybe my body is just like wtf??
You just made me make it through the night with this comment.
I remember having this “weakness’ from time to time but I can still function and do a days work!
You’re not as weak as you think.
How well I know that surge of adrenaline you described- When you have the thought, "This time it's REAL".
your posts always seem to hit at the right time. currently suffering twitching and percieved weakness. your doing a fab job sharing your message! keep it up you are essentially our Anxiety ambassador!
You legitimately have a video for every situation I’ve been in or am experiencing, thank you so much for these videos
I have gone through nearly every symptom you have plus more it’s awful, this channel is such a good reassurance for people like us even though reassurance is usually only short term relief as my doc likes to say 😂
I haven’t got any twitching, but have muscle weakness in my legs and in my arms from time to time. I’ve got probelms walking and feel dizzy. The doctor assures me it’s nothing any serious more of a functional neurological disorder which will go away in time but this is so scary, It’s really getting me down I feel like I’m losing my mind, I don’t do anything I used to go to the gym 3-4 times a week, meet friends go out now I’m just stuck on the couch.
I went to my doctor and got a neurological test and they said it was normal and I didn’t have enough weakness, problem is I feel like I can move my legs properly. Thanks for your video it helped me. My brain is definitely convinced I have this.
It's nerves and anxiety, it's a typical symptom and not actual physical weakness, I get it too even when I am not having an attack
Thank you so so much for these videos. I have twitching in my legs. It’s bad when I’m at rest. I have always had what I call popcorn legs when I was young so I’m pretty sure I have bfs. But the fear of ALS is there every day! I have no atrophy and no clinical weakness but I do feel weak in my legs . However I have just started working out again so it’s probably just that. It’s crazy how the brain can manifest things that aren’t there. Again thank you. I come back to your videos when my anxiety gets overwhelming ❤
I Have a awful health anxiety and OCD (male 28) and I'm im the bulbar Als rabbit hole .. I read about it and after a week I have started to slurre many words, No one have heard it when they speak to me, but! I have it recorded when I do slurre, so I really are slurring my words. I also started stuttering.
After the first slurre I got so hyperaware of my speech. I have never had any problems with my speech, my speech is my biggest gift in my life so when something is off with it, I know for sure something is really wrong. During this time, I also remember my tongue feeling fatigue. I do not slurre all the time it's coming and going.
I’ve also developed in the last 2-3 days a scalloped tounge and burning sensation on my tounge (never had this before), fasiculations all over my body, mostly on my left buttcheek, it also feels like I have lost the coordination of my tounge and my tounge is always touching my teeth while I’m speaking, I never had braces and I have straight teeth. And today I have bit my tounge like 15 times meanwhile I'm speaking ..
So to my question, is this the bulbar onset of ALS? Because how can it be possible for me to slurre my words for 17 days with just hyperawareness and health anxiety, it should not be possible right?
How are you now ?
This sounds like pernicious anaemia. B12 deficiency. Especially the tounge stuff. Get it checked.
Omg you don't even know how useful your channel is for me❤️thank you for sharing
Your channel has been a life saver I’ve been watching a lot of your videos and you have no idea how much all of this helps. Thank you for doing what you do!
Thank you very much for this. Whenever i feel anxiety i rush down to watch videos and most of them just feeds my depression. This video of yours helpmed me to calm down. Thank you
Thank you. It really helped. I am not fully convinced but I am way more relieved.
Even if you got to a doctor, get an MRI, EMG and all the tests, you still won’t be fully convinced.
@@juliamiller5120yes that is call helthe Anxiety🙄🙄🙄
Thank you for this video. It definitely helps my anxiety.
You and trey jones saved me
I alone may not enough to fight this thanks
This helped me a lot in your previous videos. Thank you so much for that
I'm at this stage now - today I felt like I was not in my own body 🥺
Hope you're doing better now
Cherelle you are an angel ❤
Currently going through a period where i get come and go weakness in arms and legs its horrific along with really bad fatigue/ exhaustion! And also bad tremors/ shaking in my hands its horrific
how you doing now?
im literally going through this right now and after twitching for 2 months in left calf, shoulders, stomach, tongue and neck its been so hard and just recently my coordination has been off and my left leg feels weak and tough to walk. Despite my clean emg a month ago and good test results still feeling scared. But have been getting better maybe its just the medications. Thank you for the video it helped alot. Ive been feeling weak in my left leg but its all perceived
im having exactly the same symptoms. twitching and constantly feeling foggy and weak, unless i am really busy then i forget everything :D.
Health Anxiety is a crazy illness. WE ALL NEED TO STOP GOOGLING AND YOUTUBING AND LET OUR SYSTEM CALM DOWN NATURALLY
@@Anthony-nr7iq yeah if im busy i feel normal. Im 99% sure its anxiety but the twitching is just scary reminder of what could be but wont happen to most of us.
@@JJ-qm8xg yeah for sure!. its crazy how sensitive people with Anxiety are to physical sensations i feel everything and then it triggers me.
Same with my left leg...did u get over it?
Same how have you been feeling??
How did your muscle twitching start? With Me practically from day to day, it was connected with total weakness that I just lay down for a whole week, now after 20 months the muscles are still twitching, I notice weakness mainly in the calf and otherwise all the muscles get tired quickly compared to the situation 20 months ago.
Talk to your doctor. That’s not clinical weakness. You might have BFS. But if after 20 months your muscles are still working, you can stand up, hold things, and your muscles work even if it’s not as well as before, that’s not ALS.
I'm so annoyed with myself for staring at my hands for days now... Noticing every little asymmetry
You are brilliant.
I started having "perceived" weakness in my arms a
few weeks ago. I'm a nurse and started googling
symptoms and ALS was one of the first things that
popped up. I immediately started having a panic
attack and have been in a constant state of severe
anxiety/panic attacks since. The weakness in my
arms went away and then I felt my legs were weak.
Then I started having all over muscles twitches. For
the past week the fatty muscle below my thumb has
been painful and my forearm and upper arm feel
tight. I've seen two doctors and a therapist and I
want to believe these symptoms were caused by the
anxiety since most of the symptoms did not begin
until I started having the panic attacks and severe
anxiety. Has anyone else gone through this? I feel
helpless and I'm so fixated with onevery thing my body does. I was actually feeling ok last night and my arms felt fine and today I rabbit holed again.
100% went through the same thing 3 months ago. Word for word. Neurological test, blood test, EMG and MRI all came back clean. It's probably anxiety or BFS. 🤷🏻♀️
How are you feeling now? the internet isn't always your friend especially when it comes to illnesses. I had my right peck and right tricep twitch non-stop for 2 days...they want away but then a week later I got an eye twitch that comes and goes. Of course now I think I can have ALS and get random tiny twitches. I am doing my best to resist the rabbit hole because I do not have any clinical weakness. I read that in 2 months you will def see weakness so im hoping logic kicks in on July 3rd.
I have the same thing, been twitching all over my body for 3 years and now have perceived left arm weakness and hand weakness with dull aches/minor cramps, been to Neuro twice in 3 years and they say it’s BFS, stress, lack of sleep, anxiety. But I’m having a work up done just for the benefit of my mental health, I hope everything is well with you though!
@@LucasBowman-LJB98 I’m sorry to hear it’s been 3 years but they are right. It’s not ALS simple due to the amount of time. Within 2 months you would have had some sort of motor disfunction and in 3 years Lord only knows. You are fine :)
Thank you so much GOD BLESS
Did you ever feel like your finger and hands felt like they were stiff, like you couldn’t maybe weight on your phone as fast as you use to etc? Did you ever feel this during your als anxiety? Iam in the middle of it… I’ve been to a doctor that said that I show no signs of having als. But I still can’t shake it off… I’m in day 3 of shifting between anxiety and pure panic attacks… and I can’t get out of it.
Im feeling just like you in this very moment. Please tell me how it goes
You’ve saved me
Hello cherelle,do u have a video about stomach issues like pain and so much discomfort?
Alright, bear with me. What if you're brushing or blow drying your hair and your arm starts to hurt, feel numb and tingling after less than a minute being held up in that position? I've had that for 2 years now and my doctor said the EMG showed "neurogenic suffering" in both arms. She said it could be a pinched nerve, but the MRI showed nothing to be concerned, but it still hurts and tingles everyday. Could it be a poorly healed lesion?
How r u feeling now
@@urwatulwusqaurwat still have that pain and weakness. Waiting for another EMG in May.
How ru feeling now
I saw neurologist 3times with brain scan he said to me i don't have any neurological disease he just diagnosed me fibromyalgia but at that time I didn't know about als but i knew it now am kind of worried any advice xx
It's very very rare,wait a week and if you feel very weak then see a neurologist
@@cygnusablackhole74 i saw him 3times he said nothing
How are you doing now?
I'm shocked that your legs giving falling for seemingly no reason didn't lead to something terrible because that would fall under the category of "failure," and not just feeling.
Does clinical weakness come on suddenly or can it be very gradual? Please any response would be great I'm very scared
It can be both, and atrophy, which is very visible, not just asimetry, or dents, etc, comes a bit later after the muscle stopped working or is already very weak. Also sudden weight loss can be a sign. It has no pain, no tingling, no numbness, but it can have cramps and spasticity.
Did your anxiety effect your ears at all. There is a funny noise in my left ear. Never had that before.
Tinnitus possibly?
@@cherellethinks will have to get it checked out. Thank for the reply. Best wishes.
@ciaran perry thank you for your help. In a way if it is just the anxiety then I can cope with that because there are a number of UA-cam people with anxiety and strange symptoms who have recovered and their stories of recovery encourage me.
If you have benign fasciculation syndrome (BFS), you can experience muscle twitching in your ears which manifests as a sort of pulsing sound. BFS is harmless but quite annoying due to all the twitching.
But before getting to point of hand not working at all and other people notice, we would experience these very symptoms of increasing weakness, right? Im seeing a neurologist in 2 weeks. Hope I learn something at that appointment and I don’t just get sent for tests which will be a longer process. My symptoms: awkward feeling walking. Hard to run from walking. Twitching biceps. Left hand slow typing and weak with simple tasks like unclipping dog colllar.
Not really. Because the problem is your nerves shutting down, you wouldn't start to feel your muscles atrophy until later because you can't use them anymore. The clinical weakness here would be if you literally can't move certain muscles at all anymore, because the nerves are no longer functioning. You probably wouldn't even notice it happening until suddenly one of your fingers or maybe your foot won't respond to your commands anymore. Even if that happens though, ALS is only one of several explanations.
Are you okay?
How are you sir?
@@salovel23unfortunately he was diagnosed with ALS :( he has a go fund me
I am worried about this i have hand thams pain ..and same just like u and twitichnig all ovr body iam very worried 3 4 month ago ...plz help me u make a grate and hope ful video l like your videos..my english is not good soorry for this
Brother facing same problem how r u now
@@sumeenahmed5099 how are you doing now?
Weird senstation in thumb and wrist
Does anyone feel heavy walking
Yes me! I can barely walk sometimes, my legs get sooo weak and heavy.
Has the heavy walk improved at all for anyone??
@@Lanadelrae92 has it improved
@@Lanadelrae92did it improve for you? Thanks.
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