Fear of ALS, do I have it?!?

[zkm98]

Since I have not received a response before I'll ask the same thing here.

So I am 19 years old attending college and lately I've been having fears of having ALS. It all started in the month of February when I began to feel weak in my left arm. I look online to find it linked to ALS, which was a topic I studied throughout last semester. Pretty ironic now that I think about it.

I just brushed it off thinking it was nothing, but then I suddenly felt my body spasm/jerk before going to bed in my dorm room. Shrugged it off. But then my left calf started twitching and cramping like crazy, that was when I began to fear that I might have ALS. I went to the college health center and they check my reflexes with basic strength. They told me I was fine, but then I had trouble swallowing and I ended up panicking again to a point I visited my Doctor's. Even they said I was fine, but said I was missing vitamin D. I was relieved at the time, however, vitamin d doesn't cause these twitches in adults, b12 and magnesium does. The thing is I'm fine with those two so I began to worry again. If that wasn't bad enough I began to feel my tongue twitch and become numb within a span of a week. Now I don't even feel the twitching in the tongue and feel watery saliva in my mouth. And now, I am losing feelings in my foot after waking up. I am still walking but I feels like it's going to give in and stop working completely any moment. I need at least someone to help me calm down, because this is driving me nuts to a point I cannot focus anymore or enjoy life's moments.it feels as if it gets worse each time I fall asleep and wake up.
Update: And to add, today my hand feels very weak, like it feels like I won't be able to grip things but I still can. I don't get it, it feels while holding on to a cell phone to s point I have to rest it on a pillow or on a table. It's driving me nuts, I am legitimately scared. Please let me know if this is something serious or just in my head.

[Itsreal222]

In ALS you don't feel you fail. You start not being able to do things as your muscles fail to respond like they use too. What you are describing sounds like what I have been through. A crap load of anxiety and stress. Also at 19 your chances of having ALS is like 1 in a million. So relax go see your doctor ask for a referral to a neuromuscular specialist. Your tests will come back normal and it's either a vitamin deficiency, anxiety, or Bening Fasiculation Syndrome witch mean you twitch but it's benign and can cause other sensations.