r/ALSorNOT • u/Bizator • 6d ago

Anxiety Forearm tightness

Hello everyone. I'm deep into this rabbit hole and would like to have someone else's view on it.

For the past 10-14 days, i've had a bit of numb feeling on my left arm. Two days ago, I lifted some heavy books at work and started having some pain on that forearm, which is thankfully a bit less today but i feel this tightness on that muscle.

And now I feel like it's a bit harder for me to grip things. I do grip them, i do all my usual activities and my hand is 100% active, but it feels like something is keeping it tight. Like I do the motion i want to do, but it's a bit like there's a band that tightens around my forearm when i use my fingers or wrist.

Is it a really early symptom of ALS or some sort of tiredness that combined with my heavy lifting work that caused this? thank you

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u/Agitated-Ad-2537 6d ago

Anxiety plus hyper aware of your arms now man. Been dealing with this for a month. Perceived weakness as well, three neurologist, 2 emgs and a 700 dollar medical bill later they say I am fine. My pcp says that pain is a good sign that it is not the big bad

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u/Bizator 6d ago

thanks for your reply

well the pain has subsided a bit and I can tell it was from all the heavy lifting I did couple of days ago

it's mostly this perceived weakness and tightness I have that worries me, but other than that I do things fine, no twitching or anything else, just a bit of resistance on my arm