Twitching Foot Muscle: Electric Jolts

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jerryTwo

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Ok, if the muscle is twitching it is twitching, you can see it ;)I have some feeling in my insteps now that feels like twitch but not 100%, they can not be seen although the instep in foot muscle is very low and I can see the fascs if they are even if I don't feel them. Now this can not be seen and it feels more like electric jolts and some electric short circuit from the movies where electric cable is on the wet floor broken, you know what I mean... Sometimes single feels like twitch, sometimes feels like some twitch and goes further toward toe etc... Similar feeling I have on the other leg in instep when I put my foot on the ground every time I feel the buzz, but this I think is no twitch as it is when I put my foot on the ground, it feels like wrong sensory tingling sensation.So to cut short: How can one differentiate twitches that are not seen just felt from the sensory stuff?And don't tell please it doesn't matter :sick:
 
It's a good question. I get the same feeling in my feet...kind of a buzzing or slight electric feel. The fact is if youre FEELING it, its stimulating your sensory nerves. Is this a twitch or a pure sensory issue? Could be either, but either way it's not an indication of anything bad. So let's consider both possibilities.First possibility: It may be a twitch that is small enough for you to feel but not large enough to be seen. This is perfectly normal. The electrical discharges that indicate something bad (fibrillations) can NOT be seen OR felt. If you feel it or see it, it is simply a fasciculation, not anything sinister.Second possibility: It may be a pure sensory symptom. This is not dangerous and is actually very common. Some people get pain from their sensory nerves or feel strong sensations of hot or cold. Sensations of buzzing/electric, tingling are pretty much the most common and least annoying of sensory issues. There's a wide variety of reasons ranging from small neuropathy, physical injury, circulation, pinched nerves, anxiety, adrenalin, excitement, etc that can cause these sensory symptoms. Most importantly, sensory symptoms like this are not indicative of anything even remotely close to a MND and are simply an annoyance, not life threatening.
 
Thanx for your answer. It is a good answer. If I can only feel it it is not fibrilation, it I only feel it it is not fibrilation, if I see and feel it it is not. As fibrilations I can not see or feel, so that almost made me laugh (not in a bad way, don't take this personally please) ;) I have 1000 symptoms I am scared of but the problematic one are those that I can not see or feel. That is probobally a good explanation of a BFS problem, yes ;)))Seriously: I am begining to feel I am cursed or something. Most bad things happen over night. Paresthesia in my hands, the tremor in my hands and my feet are worse in the morning. For example I loose the buzzing in the toe over the day sometimes and in the morning it is there and my hallicus brevis muscle is sore again. What the ... is happening to me at night :( Should I try not going to sleep for a week, lol... :rolleyes:With my "sensory" feeling in the foot: I can feel it like electrical jolts going thru my nerve in this muscle, but they are not to be seen, but this muscle is so visual I can see some fasciculations sometimes that I can not even feel. So I would say it is sensory...I guess what you wanted to say it if I have tremor at night, paresthesia, tingling and buzzing in feet, twitching all over... Am I nuts to be even thinking ALS :( One fello in our local forum told me, it is if I want to be scared, the MS I should fear with my symtoms, not ALS.But I am noticing some left leg and arm tremor if I make a little tense muscle, tremor type. And I am not sure if this is my muscles geting weak, hope not. I can still carry same things as before, but put just a little force on the muscle and I get tremor in it on the left. Problem is I am fasciculating more on the left. So my haead makes: fasciculation on the left and tremor on the left on slight activity = muscles geting weaker = ...
 
I have this too and a lot of others that I know. My feet are going 24/7 which is also quite common in not-BFS-people,but sometimes I get this buzzing feeling. I found out that I often get these electrical feelings in region where I twitch more or even preceeding the twitching (I get electical feeling in tongue and face MINUTES before the actual twitches start) so I think it is both: the nerves are now messed up in this special region, and as it is BFS it just affects both sensory and motor.
 
Jerry, you need to stop that, honestly. Your mind is so far away from reality with your fears. Please, forget all neuros and GPs and whatever, find yourself a good therapist that will help you handle your fears. Something I already told another member here: right now, you let a disease take away precious lifetime from you and your family, that you do not even have!!!!!! Your family also has the right to have you being there for them, damned, you do not have ALS. I know you are a clever guy, so now please get your brain working, tighten your butt cheeks, get up and fight that anxiety man!!! If you maybe get some other deadly disease in a few years you will really be *beep* for having wasted your good healthy years on crap like that. It is not that I do not understand your anxiety, I myself have been freaked out by that stuff. What I honestly do not understand: if you read across the board how many people here were sharing your stuff and have been even much worse, how come that you cannot accept being one of those people. How come you fixate on a disease you do not have ???? Please clear your mind and accept: fasciculations are most likely benign if they come without obvious clinical weakness 1:0 for BFSThey are widespread:Great!Pointsaway from ALS 2:0 for BFSYou have tremors 3:0 for BFSYou have sensory stuff: 4:0 for BFSSo you have a hotspot in your feet...WHO here hasn't???????You are a health phobiac: 5:0, game over, BFS possibility beats ALS possibility 5:0.Now please accept that. And just be damned happy that you are not one of the people with BFS whose legs are constantly cramping to bring them tears to their eyes, be glad that yu do not suffer from pain so much that you are stuck to the couch for a year or more and be glad that your tremors are not that bad that they make it impossible to work because you are shaking like hell.....because although it is a benign syndrome, things like that can happen with BFS. So be glad: you do not have ALS and you do not have worst-case-BFS. I do not want to be mean to you, If I would see the slightest chance that these meaning get through to your brain in nice words, I would use them. But I guess it would rather take a sledge hammer to smash the message into your brain.........YOU DO NOT HAVE ALS!!!!! YOU HAVE TYPICAL BFS!!!!!AND NOT EVEN A BAD CASE!!!
 
If tremors on slight muscle tension does not mean muscle weakness you are absolutely correct! I found out even if my big toe is slightly bent I get twitch like visual in the instep muscle as my big toe is trembling a little and muscles kind of twitch. I just fear tremor in daytime on slight activity is not same as clinical weakness... If that is not, you are correct. I get too much wierd stuff going on and off and none of the doctors seem to have a clue of what is wrong with me. I posted to the feet forums about my 6 weeks hurt feet muscles that I also have slight cramps and I had none answer. Nobody knows...I just seem to be stuck in this that I am logical guy and I want to know what is wrong and why and how to fix it. Like in a program that has bugs. I would like to fix it. I eat magnesium, but it is not better, I just got diahhroea . I try many things, tried to rest my feet, same as if I don't rest them and run like 3km with pain. It is not worse, it is not better on activity. It is worse in the morning.But yes, I am actively seeking psychoterapy for my anxiety, I have one doctor this week, one another week, and I will go to program 21 days in March. At the moment as I am fixated on being terminally ill it doesn't make any sense to do this, but I will do it anyway if by some miracle it ends that I am not terminally ill...Thank you for kicking my butt, I deserve it.PS - I got 2 night ago a machine gun type of twitch in my forearm. Twice in the same night. I thought it was tremor at first, so fast twitching. Didn't came back again till now. So you are correct, I don't know what to say doctor any more, every day it is kind of worse with new symtoms all over. Well, some days my hands are not numb at night so I guess it is not worse every day, it fluctuates, but it is never OK.PS2 - I agree I am not the worst in twitching around here, but I have more than average of other symptoms and problems with it... My twitching is only constant for few hours in single muscle and about 10 times in a month, but I get a pop every few minutes. Unfortunately ALS doctor didn't tell me if this put me away from ALS - does ALS have constant twitching or occasional.
 
tremor on slightly tensed muscles is typical for bfs. for some people it even stops when they put more tension in the muscle, is seems than in bfs you can easily trigger a tremor by a certain amount of slight tension. I bet the night numbness will get better soon, as it is very bad in the beginnings for many BFSers but subsedes slowly. I have fast machine-gun-twitches today in my thumb when I hold it at a certain position, it is very normal to have those in BFS andt hey are not common in ALS. Having random widespread pops every ten minutes is sooo absolutely nothing going along with ALS, omnly with BFS. Actually having random pops every 10 Minutes or so is not even BFS, it is normal for many people. I have been twitching every 10 min or so my whole life before BFS, and I guess you too, you just didn't concentrate on it becase you weren't obsessed with ALS.You see, ONCE there are fasciculationsin ALS, they are massive. Not that they are felt massive, but they are permanent and localized. You know, that whole ALS stuff is a dying of nerves and later muscles because they do not get any more input. All the muscle movements, is it fiber movements like fibs that you cannot feel , or motor unit "signals" and movements like fascists, are a sign of dying nerves , and muscles trying to get at least a bit input. And there is no repairing anything, so no pauses or anything, getting better....no, this is not how a disease like this works.You cannot fix it Jerry. Many things point to the possibility that this(like Fibromyalgia or CFS) is in many people brought on by a virus that loves to hide in our nerves (like herpes does). And that it needs time for our body to get rid of it, because our immune system cannot easily attack stuff that is hiding in there, well, complicatet stuff, anyway. It can also be autoimmune or whatever, something just turned our nerves to "hyper", actually many of us had very sensitive nerves before BFS. And what we need to do is to give our body time and peace to calm down. As long as we are anxious like hell, we really feed the disease. This is just like running around with just a T-shirt in winter.... when you are totally healthy it might be OK, but if you already having a little cold.......don't be surprised if you get a pneumonia.....Every negative input we give our bodies, is it anxiety, stress, even infections, it will be multiplied by BFS. So there is definately not the slightest chance of getting better as long as you are as anxious as you are. But the other way round: it does unfortunately not mean that it will disappear assoon as we are not anxious anymore. Because we have 2 components . But there is ne we can work on, and this is what we have to do first.
 
My numbness is getting worse and worse. For a few days I have day numbness. Well, I will be honest, it is not numbness but some ping and needles and I can not feel the body like myself, like that my arms and legs have some noise in them, it is not I can not feel, I feel wierd and I have much tingling everywhere, I even have som in my neck for a few days. So this is not an old BFS symptom but is getting worse, like in the "real" disease that is spreading.At this moment I even don't feel I have ALS any more (that's the good part at this moment), but I feel like my nervous system is just dying off. It's like my whole nerves are not working. It is really more MS than ALS at this moment, I have more tingling everywhere than ever. This wierd neuro stuff scares me more than did the combined stomach + colon + prostate problem I've had in the part. And because of them my close ones think I have nothing serious this time. But I guess hypochonder (psychriatist gave me that diagnosis) can also be really ill, the difference is that nobody believes him any more because of past false alarms.It just hasn't attaced my vision, speach, swallow and cognitive myself. I have some dizzyness and nausea but I mainly feel my body from the neck below is loosing some battle.But then again, I may be wrong even this time. I just don't believe it, unfortunately. Thanx for your post, christinasgirl123.
 

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