Make an appointment with your doctor if your twitching becomes a chronic or persistent issue. During your appointment, your doctor will ask you about your muscle twitching to determine the underlying cause. Your doctor will also perform a physical exam and gather your medical history.
Make sure to notify your doctor about any existing health conditions. Your doctor will likely order certain diagnostic tests if they suspect your muscle twitching is due to an underlying condition. They may order :. These diagnostic tests can help your doctor determine the cause of your muscle twitching.
If you have persistent and chronic muscle twitching, a serious underlying medical condition may be the cause. Early intervention can often improve your long-term outlook and treatment options.
The spasms tend to subside without treatment within a few days. But you may need treatment if one of the more serious conditions is causing your muscle twitching. Depending on the particular diagnosis, your doctor may prescribe certain medications to ease symptoms. These drugs include :. But there are some things you can do to lower your risk:. Follow these tips for eating a balanced diet :. Most adults require 7 to 9 hours of sleep each night to stay healthy. Sleep helps the body heal and recover and gives your nerves time to rest.
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Find a walk-up location or schedule an appointment today. Read more. Visit MyUFHealth to get an estimate for your cost for the most common medical procedures. Muscle twitching is caused by minor muscle contractions in the area, or uncontrollable twitching of a muscle group that is served by a single motor nerve fiber. Muscle twitches are minor and often go unnoticed. Some are common and normal. Others are signs of a nervous system disorder. No treatment is needed for benign muscle twitching in most cases.
In other cases, treating an underlying medical cause may improve symptoms. Call your health care provider if you have long-term or persistent muscle twitches or if twitching occurs with weakness or loss of muscle. Approach to the patient with neurologic disease. Goldman-Cecil Medicine. Doctors may prescribe medications to treat tremors or cramps. Some anti-inflammatory drugs or muscle relaxers may help people with pain, fatigue, and inflammation. If blood work identifies any mineral deficiency, the person may use supplements.
Because of the strong link that BFS has to stress and anxiety, it is important for people diagnosed with the condition to try to reduce their daily stress and anxiety. Benign fasciculations may be challenging to treat. However, many people find they can manage their symptoms with lifestyle changes. A key sign of ALS is what is known as muscle wasting. The affected muscles will atrophy or get smaller over time.
This also means that a person with ALS will begin to feel weaker as the condition progresses. Muscle wasting does not usually occur with BFS. While both conditions create muscle fasciculations, fasciculations appear to be more widespread in BFS.
The twitching also affects the muscle while it is resting. However, it will stop when the person starts using the muscle. In ALS, twitching can start in one place. However, it will often spread to the areas near that starting point rather than appearing in random places. However, the two disorders are different and do not seem to have any significant link to each other. BFS has no known cause or permanent treatment, and symptoms can disrupt everyday life.
There are some lifestyle changes that can help make a difference in some people. If a person is experiencing persistent muscle twitches and has not yet been diagnosed, they should speak with a doctor. The doctor may need to rule out any other possible causes or underlying conditions.
By working directly with a doctor to diagnose BFS and develop a treatment plan, many people find they can manage their symptoms well. Many factors can cause a muscle twitch, including exercise, nutrient deficiencies, and health conditions that affect the nervous system. Hello, I am interested in this topic of fasciculations as that is what alerted the Dr to have my husband tested for ALS.
First he had them on and off mostly on his left side starting in January of just turned 50 which he attributed to mild arthritis in his shoulder and his hip replacement he had done 2 years prior.
The fasciculations have intensified to his whole body most of the time. I am wondering if this is because we are in Ontario Canada and have a small population they are looking at? Has anyone else experienced this? Do you think he is just in the early stages of ALS? I went to Toronto General as well last week. He said clinical and emg were normal. He also said emg can be done to early. I too have twitching from my head to feet and everywhere in between since a year ago.
But also lost most of the use of my right hand and developed speech issues prior to the twitching starting. The twitching is stronger with exercise and being on my feet all day. I use Magnesium mg daily and just deal with it. Most of my twitching is concentrated in my right arm and hand. Quite a bit of upper body atrophy. So far legs are holding up. Vitamin B1 and B12 seemed to help, so I kept taking those, as well as about 20 other supplements recommended by several sources for neuropathy, which was what all the docs said I had since my first complaint in This is such a weird disease in the way it progresses differently for everyone.
So far my torso has been excluded. I have fasciculations everywhere. Marianne-yes we do know about benign fasciculations and were hoping for that diagnosis, but the EMG showed nerve damage done by an ALS neurologist so that is why they diagnosed ALS. I began having twitching in my right bicep 4 maybe 5 years ago.
Lightly at first then more prominent over a few months. Then spread to my left arm and then my legs. So far progression has been fairly slow affecting my hands. Beginning to feel a little weakness in my legs but still walking on my own two feet without any assistance for now. I also supplement with B12, Turmeric and CoQ10, however I believe that Magnesium L-Threonate is the major contributor to eliminating any fasciculations.
When I was very first diagnosed in November it was only in my left arm. Soon my whole body felt like it was twitching. I started a regiment of CBD oil on recommendation of my Neurologist and after three weeks I am glad to report my twitching has diminished back to only my left arm, but even that seems to be milder than previously.
Also I would say that anxiety will bring on bouts of twitching, so I try to stay as calm and anxiety free as possible. They complete quarterly remote visits and 2 in person visits to the clinic each year. So, six times a year they update information and redo surveys and collect blood samples. Lori — No, First noticed twitching a couple years ago — very minor. So far, speech is unaffected, but I have to use 2 hands on the mouse. Graduated over the last year from cane to walker to rollator to motorized wheelchair next month.
Thanks again everyone. Praying it is a slow progressing one. I concur. If I miss stretching for one day, I really feel it. Resistance bands are great for this, making it easier from a variety positions. Trials of arimoclomol a chemical trigger of heat-shock response are full, and dammit I want my proteins folded as properly as my t-shirts.
So I ordered a sauna-blanket contraption online and — lo and behold — it works exactly as advertised and is a warm, blissful retreat. I stepped on a pebble, jumped in the air came down on the front of my foot and fell backwards. A fractured toe later I watch every step now. But my cell phone ringing will make me jump. Addendum: Has anyone tried those T. Also, learn to anticipate situations where the reflex will happen maybe not walk barefoot; to avoid stepping on rocks?
And, get used to laughing after it happens…we pALS do have strong reflex reactions… I find the humor in it, and that helps diffuse the situation and relax my body.
Bill — I never had that problem. Very rarely do I startle over anything, and it creeps my wife out. My ALS was very pronounced on my left side. The right side was high functioning. Hyper-reflexia was more pronounced on the left side. And fasiculations were limited to that side as well. Life was good. Fast forwarding two years, the twitches are pretty rare at this point.
But the spasms are intense and only occur at night. I am rewarded with a spasm any time I change sleeping positions and extend a leg or arm. Cramps sometimes come along for a ride.
I am appreciative of this collective insight. There are lots of ideas to try. Many thanks for your openness and sharing. A couple years ago I had pretty bad leg cramps at night. Got doubts, tho. I did have some but then I stopped caffeine and ate well and gluten free too. So my body is calm now. There have been many great posts and sharing of experiences on this topic and others. I have been a person living with ALS since early In addition to all of the supplements and stretching, I focus on a diet of g.
Protein shakes are an easy way to help keep up the weight and provide fuel to stay in the fight. Meditation and prayer before bedtime also helps on so many levels. Live in the moment and be open to experimenting. Every day is a gift; that is why it is called the present. I have also leveraged recent research linking microbiome health in the gut and neurological function. ALS can take away many things, but not hope. Stephen — — You do realize that this list is of the supplements is only a compilation of the various supplements common among the 45 ALS reversals that Dr.
Bedlack is studying. No one took ALL of them… Dr. Bedlack is examining each supplement one-by-one starting with Turmeric to ascertain if that particular supplement contributed to the reversal. I try to keep up with the latest research, and as far as individual supplements go, I believe many on this list do not have a direct effect on ALS. Unfortunately, they are an unneeded expense for pALS and only line the pockets of the supplement companies. Plus, taking mega-doses of supplements without medical supervision is self-medicating and carries a risk of adverse reactions.
Totally agree with you and Stephen, thanks so much for sharing. All information is useful and warrants further individual review and research prior to subscribing. Please research with your doctor prior to taking. Now back to topic — i take a number of supplements plus Radicava plus Riluzole and still twitch like crazy, so again it comes down to faith and trust that some combination of drugs, supplements and positive attitude will take hold.
ALS strikes each of uniquely.
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