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I'm a female in my early 20s. For about 6 years, I've experienced muscle twitches in muscles all over my body. It's like the twitches you get in your eyelid, except it's all over my body. This usually happens perhaps once a day and happens more often when I'm stressed out.
I also get this generalized dull achy pain in my arms and legs. It feels like my muscle needs to be stretched but when I stretch it, it doesn't help. I don't know if it's a cramp, nerves, or what. This happens a few times a month and it's usually when I'm stressed.
I also occasionally have weird brief pains in my hands and feet. Its like a quick sharp pricking pain. It also seems to happen more when I think and worry about it .
It also seems like a have a few more floaters in my right eye. However, I went to the optometrist a few months ago and he said that my optic nerves were okay.
I'm not sure what to do. I went to the GP 5 years ago for my muscle twitches and she said that it was probably just stress. I don't have any muscle weakness, numbness, or loss of coordination. I'm a hypochondriac and quite honestly, I'm sick of crying "wolf." But I am worried and I'm losing sleep and not enjoying life anymore because I'm terrified that I'm sick with MS.
Any ideas? Could this all be stress-related? I am a very stressed out (obviously) individual and easily prone to anxiety.
Thanks!! :)
I also get this generalized dull achy pain in my arms and legs. It feels like my muscle needs to be stretched but when I stretch it, it doesn't help. I don't know if it's a cramp, nerves, or what. This happens a few times a month and it's usually when I'm stressed.
I also occasionally have weird brief pains in my hands and feet. Its like a quick sharp pricking pain. It also seems to happen more when I think and worry about it .
It also seems like a have a few more floaters in my right eye. However, I went to the optometrist a few months ago and he said that my optic nerves were okay.
I'm not sure what to do. I went to the GP 5 years ago for my muscle twitches and she said that it was probably just stress. I don't have any muscle weakness, numbness, or loss of coordination. I'm a hypochondriac and quite honestly, I'm sick of crying "wolf." But I am worried and I'm losing sleep and not enjoying life anymore because I'm terrified that I'm sick with MS.
Any ideas? Could this all be stress-related? I am a very stressed out (obviously) individual and easily prone to anxiety.
Thanks!! :)
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Get a full blood work-up as well to be sure everything is as it should be for your age.
It could also be stress, depression, and yes, even MS. HOwever, I wouldn;t be too quick to jump on MS just yet. To diagnose MS, they have to rule everything else out anyway, so mind as well get started!
I hope you get some answers soon, and also feel better :)
Jen
Good luck, and I hope you find out what it is, and that it is not MS.
I agree with the others who have said full blood work up, write down your symptoms & what worries you, also what timing the muscle twitching & pains occur & what you were doing.
All this will help your dr to work out what is wrong.
I hope that it doesnt turn out to be ms.
Also I would try some ralaxing techniques, whether it is yoga, pilates or music, whatever relaxes you, that will help you in lots of ways.
Take care,
Sue
I live in the UK, so a lyme diagnosis is not an option.
I too have written on here, that I am worried about having MS, but that t could be lyme disease.
This is what I wrote previously:-
I am still awaiting diagnosis, but wondered if it sounds like MS.
I have an episode where I suddenly get really tired, not just physically but mentally too, its like I just seem to fade.
My feet burn a lot of the time, on my soles and under my arches.
My scalp itches sometimes and the skull aches.
I get heel itch really badly and at random times, I can scratch and
scratch but I cant get rid of the itch.
Writing this is very difficult as I am finding that the letters are jumbling up in my head, almost like a dyslexia, except I have never had a problem spelling words before.
I get mild nerve twinges on my face for no reason.
I get heavy legs sometimes, where it feels like I am really unfit
or heavy.
My energies change sometimes I don't have these problems
Do any of these symptoms sound like MS?
Thank you in advance for taking the time to answer, I know how difficult it can be.
Dave
Posted on 11/12/08, 02:11 pm
I will add to that list that my finger tips burn sometimes too and that
I sometimes have trouble sleeping properly.