u/Neither_Gas9142

I’ve been worried about having ***for the last year and its been driving me insane to the point where I couldn’t even spend time with my family and I kept thinking I was going to ***. I made 4 posts ab this and every-time I make one its because I dont know what to do or think. Back in September of 2024 (I was 16) I got scratched by a stray cat and I thought i had rabies, thats when I started developing muscle twitching around my body and started having spasms and jerking while sleeping but it got even worse with hallucinations. I begged my parents to take me to my pediatrician and got sent to do bloodwork and it came back normal I’m pretty sure and when I found out I tried to forget about it but the muscle twitching stayed and the cramps in my feet stayed as well but the twitching got worse all over my body including my tongue and area below my stomach. After 8 months when I searched up on google my symptoms *** appeared and I couldn’t keep my mind off of it then more symptoms came in like me feeling more weak and not having as much strength as I thought I had tingling sensation and buzzing as well as my body aching. This was one of my lowest points because i became so set that I had it and I was going to *** and thats when I couldn’t focus on anything and would cry any chance I got. My parents didn’t buy it and thought I was lying and thought nothing was wrong with me and i begged for them to take me to my pediatrician again and they did but when I went the pediatrician put how i was feeling to the side and i never got evaluated on the symptoms. After the visit I kept asking chatgpt about my symptoms and kept googling it and it was all making me believe I had it. Chatgpt said thats not how it presented itself while google was saying otherwise and it made me super depressed and confused. Once summer ended and I came back to school (I was 17) I tried to ignore it all and it still never went away and I just went to live with it. And when school ended and I graduated My body had the same symptoms but there were more noticeable stuff like me getting weaker in some areas like if I’m standing a certain position with my knees bent I can feel it struggling and same with my arm if I’m pressing it to hold me up it feels pressure and just starts shaking and so does my finger when their at a certain position or angle. I tried ignoring it but its just so unbearable and i want to be ok because I’m too young and want to live. My parents still don’t believe anything is wrong with me and I know I’m not crazy but I just need someone to tell me if I’m ok or not because its been going on for too long and the weakness i feel is becoming to eat at me.

In 17m and i fear that i might have als. In September of 2024 i got scratched by a stray cat and told myself i got rabies then started freaking out from it where i experienced muscle twitching all over my body then muscle spasms and jerking in my sleep, i dragged myself to my pediatrician who sent me to get bloodwork, it came back normal. Then i started experiencing muscle cramps in my feet almost everyday and my twitching just kept happening never going away then i experienced one of my relatives dying from als and i looked it up in may of 2025 and i started believing i had it. I felt very weak and depressed monitoring all my movements and i started having tongue twitching. I went to my pediatrician again but they never told me anything about the twitching and i just tried to calm myself down and just try to realize i dont have it. Then these last few weeks i started thinking if i had it again and now my right hand has these tremors that feel weird and my right arm is in this weird kind if pain like if something is bothering it and its just been eating at me a lot and i kept telling myself i dont have it but i dont know what to think.