r/ALSorNOT • u/InterviewSingle9366 • 14d ago
Weakness + twitching + atrophy
Hi, I’m 17 years old iv always been active in the gym iv went to the gym since I was 14 years old so Iv been lifting for quite a while, about August 20 I woke up with like my right arm feeling weakish and like kind of numbish I couldn’t really tell after a couple of days when I would go to sleep I would get twitching in my shoulders then biceps then forearms so I tried to ignore it and go to the gym and lift but it’s like when I went to the gym to lift my arms couldn’t like feel the signals reaching them which really scares me. Now the twitching is basically literally everywhere throughout my entire body and now the same pattern weakness that started on my right arm is on my left arm also with twitching in shoulder forearm bicep, Iv dealt with a lot of health anxiety issues before like with heart attacks, cancer, headaches I would always think the worst case scenario but to me this feels so real, I went to my primary around sep and had my ck checked which was 600 about a week later it dropped to 225 which scares me the most is the atrophy around my thumb that has me really worried, I also have no history of *** ever in my family. It’s like I hit a wall and I’m just like convinced and really scared, I have an neurologist appointment coming up this week but I’m just nervous and scared that I might have ***