Hi there. I understand your situation,there are certain causes responsible for muscle twitching like diet deficiency, drug overdose, and side effects of diuretics, corticosteroids, estrogens, exercise, benign twitches, and nervous system conditions like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS, muscle dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy and myopathy. Your neurologist needs to look into these conditions one by one. The other possible cause could be multiple sclerosis and is a diagnosis of exclusion. The symptoms of multiple sclerosis are loss of balance, muscle spasms, numbness in any area, problems with walking and coordination, tremors in one or more arms and legs. Bowel and bladder symptoms include frequency of micturition, urine leakage, eye symptoms like double vision uncontrollable rapid eye movements, facial pain, painful muscle spasms, tingling, burning in arms or legs, depression, dizziness, hearing loss, fatigue etc. The treatment is essentially limited to symptomatic therapy so the course of action would not change much whether MS has been diagnosed or not. Apart from clinical neurological examination, MRI shows MS as paler areas of demyelination, two different episodes of demyelination separated by one month in at least two different brain locations. Spinal tap is done and CSF electrophoresis reveals oligoclonal bands suggestive of immune activity, which is suggestive but not diagnostic of MS. Demyelinating neurons, transmit nerve signals slower than non-demyelinated ones and can be detected with EP tests. These are visual evoked potentials, brain stem auditory evoked response, and somatosensory evoked potential. Slower nerve responses in any one of these is not confirmatory of MS but can be used to complement diagnosis along with a neurological examination, medical history and an MRI in addition, a spinal tap. Therefore, it would be prudent to consult your neurologist with these concerns. Take care
i have no idea what this is, but i just wanted to let you know that someone did take the time to read it, i wish i had an answer for you, best of health :)
I have the same problem I would love to know what it is.
I know this is long after you wrote your post, but your symptom list could easily be caused by chronic Lyme disease. I was bitten by a tick a year and a half ago, then got heart palpitations, muscle tremors, tingling and numbness, mild headaches, insomnia, and other issues I've NEVER had before. I have been in long-term treatment for Lyme disease and a coinfection called babesia that I got from that one tick bite. Lyme disease is present in every state. If you still have not found an answer to your troubles, please consider visiting a Lyme-literate doctor to be properly tested and treated. Mainstream doctors take the CDC's stance that Lyme is difficult to contract, and very easy to treat. This is not the case, and there is substantial research overturning this misinformation. Since starting treatment, almost all of my symptoms have faded away into nothing. I am on month 15 of antibiotics, but still have minor symptoms from the Lyme and babesia. But I know I will be well again based on my huge improvements. You can find a Lyme-literate doctor online, including at an excellent reference website called ilads.org. There's a contact page where you request a list of LLMDs in your area. Lyme is difficult to diagnose, and hard to eradicate, but it can be done, and if it is what you have, you can regain a large portion of your life. Best of luck, and blessings.
Did you ever find a cause. I am having the same symptoms