I AM A 36 YEAR OLD FEMALE, MARRIED/4 CHILDREN. SEPT. 03 MY CHEEK BONES BECAME EXTREMELY PROTRUDING. LIKE MY BONES HAD GROWN. FAMILY AND FRIENDS NOTICED ALSO,ASKED HAD I LOST WEIGHT, I HAD NOT. I ALSO NOTICED A KNOT ON MY HEAD JUST ABOVE MY TEMPLE. I WENT TO A NEUROSURGEON WHO SAID MY BONES HAD NOT GROWN,MY TEMPORAL MUSCLES HAD WASTED, ATROPHIED, GIVING THE APPEARANCE THAT MY BONES GREW.AND THE KNOT WAS NOW NOTICIBLE SINCE THE MUSCLES COVERING WASTED. HIS DIAGNOSIS, MYOTONIC MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY.HE SENT ME TO A NEUROLOGIST.I HAD THE DNA TEST FOR THIS. IT WAS NEG.I BEGAN EXPERIENCING MUSCLE TWTICHES THROUGHOUT MY BODY.I HAD AN EMG, THAT WAS NORMAL. SO I DON'T THINK I HAVE ALS. HE SAID I HAD NO MOTOR NEURON DISEASE EITHER. HE SAID I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING SERIOUS BUT SOMETHING IS WRONG,HE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT. HE GAVE ME NO OTHER OPTIONS.ITS BEEN THREE MONTHS I HAVE TWITCHES NOT ALL DAY, THAT I CAN TELL,BUT EVERY DAY. MY LEGS,ARMS,STOMACH,BACK,MOUTH,EVEN SCALP,BUT ODDLY NONE IN MY EYE. I HAVE COME TO LEARN ABOUT BFS, MAYBE I HAVE THIS, ONLY I HAVE NEVER HAD ANXIETY ISSUES, MY STRESS LEVEL IS THE NORM FOR A PERSON AT THIS STAGE IN THEIR LIFE, NO MORE FOR ME THAN IN THE PAST. ALSO, BFS HAS NO MUSCLE WASTING AND I HAVE BEEN TOLD BY 2 DRS I HAVE FACIAL MUSCLE WASTING. DOES THIS SOUND LIKE BFS? OR CAN YOU GIVE ME ANY OTHER OPTIONS THAT I COULD CHECK INTO, MAYBE SOME OTHER TYPE OF ADULT ONSET MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, I AM NOT AN ALARMIST BUT SOMETHING CAUSED FACIAL MUSCLE ATROPHY, NO WEAKNESS, BUT WHY THE MUSCLE TWTICHES NOW? I DON'T KNOW WHETHER TO PERSUE THIS, WHAT TO, OR WHERE TO GO NEXT.