Help ease my anxiety 🥲
Hi everyone, I’m here because I also have some pretty extreme health anxiety. Lately I got in my mind that I might have ALS and I’m becoming so sick over it. (Like literally physically ill and nauseous.)
I’m 30 (F) and have noticed my left arm feeling weak or heavy and even thinner than my right arm. I will say I am right handed so maybe the size was always this way? I’m not sure. I noticed my muscles are more sore in my left arm with any workout I do, and again I know it’s not my dominant hand, but I don’t know if I noticed this this much before.
I don’t really have any motor skill issues or issues with my grip, nothing seems that much harder, I guess I just noticed more of a strain. I was waking up with numbness in my ring and pinky fingers, assuming that maybe it was my ulnar nerve, and I’m going for a cervical MRI next week to see if it’s actually stemming from my neck, but I haven’t really had the numbness in a little while because I’ve been trying to straighten my arm, especially when I sleep.
What’s funny is now that I planted ALS in my brain, I’m noticing twitching all over my body, but mostly in my legs, which I don’t think I have any weakness in.
I woke up yesterday, trying not to sleep so much on my left arm because maybe I was compressing it, and I didn’t really wake up with the weakness, but today I woke up with the weakness and at one point both my hands felt numb. I’m really trying to convince myself that it’s my anxiety tricking my body into the twitching and numb hands this morning, but I can’t help but worry.
I made an appointment with a neurologist next week to hopefully get some answers, but I’m so anxious over it and was just hoping for words of encouragement, either way.
I so badly long for the day where I’m not anxious over every little thing, and really hope I’m not right about this one.