Widespread Muscle Twitching - Feet Updated

[Drewbacca]

Have widespread twitching but my feet have suddenly started twitching much more now (they were occasionally twitching before for last few months).

For the old timers probably nothing new here but they seem to be different parts of the same muscle (at the instep - i.e. between big toe and heel) where it sometimes twitches closer to the toe, sometimes in the middle, sometimes towards the heel and sometimes in the sole !!! (the most wierd spot). Does anyone get similar twitching ???

It is starting to worry me a little since I there is no way to test that muscle in isolation (I can do heel and toe walking but that tests lower legs muscles more than the feet).

 

[melyssa221]

My feet all ways twitch.... the most effected parts in BFS are the calves and feet.

 

[Drewbacca]

But does it twitch in different parts of the same foot muscle ?

 

[Diego4Life]

Yes. My feet twitch in the arch, the sole and on top. sometimes as many as 10 in one second in the same muslce. The ones in the arches seem to be one long fibre twitch.

12Drifter12 is right, feet and calves are recognised as the most common areas for BFS according to my neuro and countless posts I have read on the Cleveland Clinic board.

If it helps, I have only had foot twitching for the last 7 months. Before that 10 years of calf twitching. Scared I went to my neuro thinking that I now had a progressive neurological disease, but he said no, just a flare-up. He said with BFS you can start twitching in other places, but it is still the same cause. If you think about it logically, how likely is it that twitching in one area is due to BFS and in another area due to als?

I have pestered my neuro about this subject and he just laughs and says no, you cannot have benign calf twitching and sinister foot twitching!

 

[Drewbacca]

Hello Diego4Life,

I hope your Neuro is right.

I have thought about EXACTLY the same thing if you can have a disease process in one part of the body but twitching in the rest due to just "peripheral nerve hyperexcitability" (a European term so I hope you now feel at home

There was a post by someone called "Pole" saying that in the dreaded disease this can be the case (ie. a superposition of PNH over the disease). I do not know where that info. came from but certainly I'd like to know the real answer (although it seems less likely to happen otherwise a clean EMG would not mean a thing).

Best Regards.

 

[BoyyDavoMan]

I get CONSTANT twitching in the arches of both feet. If fact, whenever I want to show people my twitching, that is where I give my demonstration, since everywhere else it is hit or miss. I've had these twitches in this location for 4 years. This is where my EMG showed some minor abnormalities (fibrillations in ONE location), but my neurologist attributes this to my flat feet and age, combined with the BFS. This is also where I can show people how I cramp. All I have to do is contract the muscle in my instep and the contraction runs away -- instant cramping! Painful, but it is a good show! Even when I take quinine for cramping, it will still cramp if I do this movement, indicating that those nerves are really irritated.

 

[Diego4Life]

Same here. Pointing my feet when pulling on clothes will send my arches into cramp.