Calf Twitching Worries Me

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Hello all. I have been brosing this site for a few months now. I have random all over body twitches. None lasting more than a few minutes. Yesterday I started getting really bad calf twitching on my left calf. At fist I did not think anything of it. But after a few hours it started to scare me. It twiches regardless of if I flex the muscle or not. Also now I can not feal the twithing but when I look at my calf it is twiching away like a heart beating. Very soft and hardly noticable. Has any one else had this? From what I read on this forum. Twithing in a flexed muscle is not normal and fine twithces that you can not notice is also not good. My anxeity is going through the roof!!
 
My calf muscles have twitched when flexed. I noticed that in the spring and I haven't noticed weakness yet. In fact on my EMG which was administered around the same time, the neuro saw fascics in my calves that I couldn't feel, he declared my EMG to be clean and told me that I do not have ALS and to get on with my life. Hope that helps.
 
I'd like to try and help you out with the "flexed muscle" thing. One thing very important to keep in mind is that we have SO MANY muscles in our bodies, and that usually twitching occurs in individual muscle fibers, from what I have been told (although you can have multiple ones at once). Just because you are flexing a muscle, and because you think you are flexing your twitching muscle doesn't necessarily mean you are. You could move a limb that has a relaxed and twitching muscle on it, so maybe that is what is occurring. I could be wrong, but this happens to me too!! :D)
 
I tend to agree with Megan on that one. Plus, even though we frequently say that twitching in a relaxed muscle is always benign, that doesn't mean that twitching in a flexed muscle is always ominous. There are many a post on this issue. I have posted one myself. Search through my old ones and you will find one about my flexed thumb twitching.Take care!
 
Twitching/tremoring, even very subtle, soft ones, can occur benignly (is that a word ffs?), in a flexed muscle...and in fact does so often. It's fine...really. :D) ~*~Amy~*~
 
Thank you guys for your reponses! They have helped to calm me down. My calf is still twitching. It is amazing how something like twitching can send you in a panic. It really has effected my life. I'm even scared to move sometimes while I'm twiching because I was scared that was such a bad sign(twitching while flexed). I just have to take it day bye day, enjoy my wife and kids, and be thankful for the day God has given me.
 
It is amazing what we do to ourselves. The first twitches I felt were in my calves about 3 years ago. I would lay in bed at night, feel my legs going crazy and at first I thought it was my circulation. Then one day when I was driving I looked down and my calves looked like waves....panic set in. That was almost 3 YEARS AGO....I think if I had a serious illness it would be present by now. My calves still twitch constantly and I am still working out 4 times a week....with a trainer (lunges, leg press (increased from 60 pounds to now 110). I am stronger than ever and guess what - my legs are still twitching like crazy ALL THE TIME. Embrace it as part of who you are :D)
 
I picked up the phone yesterday at work and my bicep started twitching. It was obviously flexed while holding the phone. I am 14 months into this mess and understand your anxiety. My focus is on accepting that I have something unexplainable but that is better than something clear bad diagnosis. As long as I can do everything I always did, I am not going to let this get the best of me.Krackersones
 

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