Opinions please

[okiemom79]

I have never experienced what I am experiencing lately and its scaring the pee diddle out of me. Let me start off by saying that I am 31 and had my 3rd (and last) child close to 7 months ago via c-section (along with tubal). All my children have been c-section for the record. A few months ago I started experiencing muscle twitching and all kinds of other problems that lead me to a brain MRI and Thyroid check. Both came back normal. I chalked it all up to anxiety. I had just found out a close family member had cancer and then soon after she passed away. That along with having 3 kids (4, 2, and now 6 months) was causing much stress. I got on an anti anxiety which has helped a little with the anxiety and although my twitching has pretty much stopped I still have a feeling of stiffness in my calves. Like they are going to get a Charley horse any minute. My arms have been bugging me now too. They have been feeling fairly weak but again I chalked it up to picking up my kids so much and bending over into crib and play pen. allllll day. I am so tired of worrying about my symptoms that I just STOPPED googling every ache and pain and I actually started feeling better but the symptoms never actually went away. My calves still bother me and then today after working in the yard cutting hedges and moving a king size bed rail (in pieces) out to the shed I started feeling a little shakey so I came in and checked my blood sugar which was 102. I do not have diabetes but my mom does and I was borderline gestational with all my pregnancies so I keep a close eye on it. Anyway when I held the test strip in between my fingers to put it in the monitor I noticed my hand was shaking something terrible. It would only happen when I would grip something or ball my hand into a fist. It is not doing it now, but my arms FEEL weak although I can ball my fist up tight and pick my kids up without feeling like I am going to drop them. My hands hurt and have little twitches. I use to work in the yard last year and never had this before, thats why it has me so worried because its come on so abruptly. What I am trying to get at is what does weakness from ALS feel like? Is it a "feeling" of weakness or is it actual weakness? I do worry a lot and I know this but seriously I am so tired of the feelings in my arms and my calves its like trying to ignore a toothache, its always there nagging me.

[ewford]

I think you have a chronic intracellular bacterial infection.  Sleep disorders, hyperventilating, achiness, joint and muscle pain, fasticulations, feeling of a UTI infection,  NO STANDARD MEDICAL DOCTOR IS GONNA FIGURE THIS OUT< NOT EVEN AN INFECTIOUS /NEUROLOGIST.  I think it's either Lymes or Mycoplasa infection . mycoplasmas are as small as viruses and lack a cell wall, so they invade your cells and replicate.  Do you feel kinda OK for a few days, then feel like total CRAP on another?  You need to seriously consider my opinion.  The Dr above is a standard practitioner, he will never understand this since Lymes is denied as chronic and you will be labeled a hypochondriac.  He also was not taught about Mycoplasmas in med school.( or at least infectious mycoplasmas)

Lyme disease is a VERY complicated disease as it has coinfecions of Bartonella, Babesia, Human Granuloma Ehrlichia and Mycoplasmas.  If you have pain in your ankles, feet, chronic headaches, It is usually a Bartonella sign.  Babesia causes air hunger, retching (feeling of throwing up), headaches, flu like symptoms, it also causes the red blood cells to swell up so they cannot pass through the capillaries in your brain, hands, feet and skin.  Borrelia Burgdeferi (Lymes bacteria) causes all sorts of symptoms such as headaches, facial ticks, muscle fasticulations, irritable bowell, CFS, symptoms of MS, ALS, Lupus, Hashimotos, Graves, etc.

  I would seriously check out   IMMED    www (dot) immed (dot) org  and look at Autoimmune illness or fatigueing illnesses.

  Does your throat hurt, neck stiffness, cracking in neck, sensativaties to light, sound, irratability, bouts of crying, endometriosis or hysterectomy because of cysts, muscle and joint pain that travels from day to day?

  Contact ILADS and find a doctor near you that treats chronic bacterial infections.  What happens is the Mycoplasma or Borrelia suppress your immune system, all latent viruses re-emerge ( HSV1&2, HHV 5, 6, cytomegalo virus, Enteroviruses, etc) and you become chronically ill.  The T4 helper cells are dissabled and stop looking for cancerous tissue, the macrophages stop working causing the immune system to stop "cleaning up" fungal infections so you now have a chronic intracellular bacterial infection, viral infections AND out of control fungal infections.

  Dr Garth Nicolson on the Autoimmune Expert page would be your best bet to get cured.  Pay the $ to get an answer from him.  It is worth it.  He is truly THE expert (Nobel Prize nominee, absolutely brilliant Cellular Patholigist. .

[Dr. Kokil Mathur]

Hi okiemom79! The simplest reason for your symptom could be anemia and dehydration. Dehydration and electrolyte imbalance, muscle fatigue, pinched nerve due to wrong posture could be the cause. Hence a cervical MRI should be done. I would suggest you get the blood levels of the following checked if they have not already been checked: potassium, calcium, sodium, magnesium, vitamin B complex, or vitamins B1, B3, or B6 and Vitamin D. Generally deficiencies of any of the above can cause muscle twitching and spasms in localized or generalized areas of the body. Get your kidney function, parathyroid gland function and adrenal function tests done because these affect the electrolyte balance in the body. Stress, alcohol, caffeine and fatigue all cause similar symptoms. Hence if you take alcohol or coffee then cut this down. Sleep at regular hours and see if it helps. Certain sleep disorders and peripheral nerve disorders due to diabetes or hypothyroidism can also be the cause.
Thyroid has been ruled out, so test for other causes.
Since I cannot examine you and know other related conditions you may be having, nor is a detailed history possible on net, I have listed the various possibilities that should be looked into. Please consult your PCP for primary examination followed by proper referral.
Take care!