Why you probably DON’T have ALS 

Just wanted to say thank you. I have twitches and work out all the time. The anxiety from thinking I had ALS was absolutely debilitating I would not wish that on my worst enemy. The anxiety alone can cause you to feel weak be clumsy and take on the very symptoms that you're worried about. Thanks for the reassuring words.

If your are here, then you have anxiety. 90% of people diagnosed with ALS never thought they had it.

Ive been dealing with really bad health anxiety all year and potentially having ALS has been a major source of stress this past month. Im so glad I came across this video. You really did make me feel way calmer.

I’m still super paranoid but thanks so much for this. I’ve felt muscle twitching and what I thought was weakness the last 3 days. This video is way better than google, as google has essentially already diagnosed me with als.

Thank you for sharing. It's so good to know I'm not the only one who struggles with this annoying symptom that causes so much fear. Praying for all of us who struggle with anxiety! We can overcome and live fearlessly! God Bless.

So glad I stumbled across this. I'm 47 and haven't experienced health anxiety until I started getting twitches all over my body. After looking up the symptoms, I convinced myself I had ALS. This is scary to me because I had a coworker fall at work one day, not walk without a limp, get diagnosed, and sadly pass away from the disease.

Thank you for this video hun, this helped me team tremendously . I developed severe anxiety couple of years ago and noticed that both calf muscles been twitching for last year or so with odd twitch here and there around my body . Now I can see that when I get anxious it’s gets worse but when I’m calm it goes away.

thank you so much for explaining all of this, it's really reassuring to know that I don't actually have any of the symptoms except muscle twitches.

Thanks very much for this video , while reassurance is temporary , sometimes it can make the difference in getting a good nights sleep.

I cant tell you enough how much you have helped me with this video.

These videos are so important. Thank you so much.

I cried after I listened to your video. I have a twitch in the left side of my lip for over a week now after being totally anxious over going to my yearly doctor’s visit. Every year I’m a nervous wreck:( I think the worse disease from the twitch. I had twitch on my thumb last year I also thought the worse but it went away I found it was an overworked thumb from lifting heavy weights at the gym. I feel so sad when my life is almost perfect but I can’t enjoy it 😩. Everyday I look at my body I feel for anything new then I worry. It’s a tough way to live. Thank you for this video. It makes sense about my twitches from time to time. I also noticed when I’m really busy the twitch is almost nonexistent. So I’m feeling a bit encouraged. Thanks again. I’m much older than you but I think I have been like this from late teens. Thanks 🙏🏽

Thank you for this. The muscle twitches have gotten progressively worse and I had convinced myself that an ALS diagnosis was imminent ;) I’m sorry you suffer with the twitches, anxiety and fear. Thank you for the video! 😘

I’m so sorry you suffer with health anxiety. It can be absolute hell. But thank you for sharing your experience. You are helping a lot of people.

I want to thank you so much For this video I have chronic anxiety at 20 all of the things you have mentioned my mind has been thinking you mentioning the fact that weakness is actual weakness reassured my mind. I’m so grateful for this video.

It’s crazy to see how me and another person are perfectly identical when it comes to fears. Because you’ve literally described everything I’ve feared (my top 3 health anxiety enemies, cardiovasulcar , malignant and neurological diseases). I’ve feared these 3 things since 7th grade but didn’t really get out of hand till my freshman year of high school. Now I’m in my third year of college. Ive watched you videos a lot and I find myself coming back to them. I’ve been subbed to you since freshman year! You’ve gotten me through some dark times honestly. Thank you!

thank you so much for this video for the last few days i had severe anxiety and i felt hopeless. after watching this video i can focus on things again i cant put to words how thankfull I am

Watching this has made me feel so much better. Thank you!

Lower back pain, muscle twitching, lower back is twitching, my full body twitching, I feel weakness, I feel that I’m loosing balance, my hands are trembling, I have a little bit joint pain, my muscles feel stiff, and I’m on day 3 i just turned 16 2 weeks ago. Edit - Day 2: Went to the doctor Who claims i have UTI. I was prescribed antibiotics and vitamin c pills. This explains the back pain but I think the uti reached my kidneys bc that’s the only way you’ll start twitching. Also the rest might likely just be my anxiety. Day 3: I take the medications. the twitches are kinda gone by now but they still come but not alot. for some reason I still have muscle weakness my legs are stiff when walking and my muscles in my arms feel tired always. Day 5: I still have muscle weakness and twitching. I was shivering like a lot after I took a shower and I’m having muscle spasms. Still the same day except a few hours later. My anxiety is really high rn I’m scared bc my muscles feel weaker and I’m still twitching and I don’t know guys. I’m scared rn. Idk what to do. I’m going to a hospital tomorrow to check my blood. Day 6: Didn’t go to the hospital and I’m still scared. I still have the same symptoms. My anxiety is going ballistic Day 7: I’m still having the same symptoms no improvement. My grip is weaker my fingers are stiff. Idk. My jaw also feels stiff. Day idk It’s been at least 4 days since my last time. Honestly guys my jaw isn’t stiff, my fingers aren’t stiff, my grip is stronger, none of my muscles feel stiff. It’s just that I thought I had als soooo much that I just stopped thinking about having a future. I just quit and just said whatever bc I’m seeing all these symptoms there’s no point anymore there’s nothing that makes this NOT be als at this point bc even my voice changed and became less deep. I lowkey thought I had it for days till the point where my anxiety just disappeared cuz I didn’t care anymore. And now, I’m so much better. No more loosing balance, stiffness, shaking. I still have muscle twitching tho and sometimes a lil arm weakness but I’m good other than that I’m fine 🥊 1 month later- I still don’t know what’s wrong with me but I’m still sick. I can still walk I am still able to do things normally. I’m twitching and having involuntary jerk movements still. Guys if you’re twitching or something, ur most likely fine Bc as this girl said with Als twitching isn’t even that common it’s mainly clinical weakness. Anyways I am a little worried but I’m fine and it’s been 2 months actually since day 1. So yeah I’m fine. 3months later I’m fine. I have severe bone cracking idk I thought it was arthritis but arthritis is pain and stiffness which I do not have. Everything is fine the twitching is back in my stomach only this time. And it came back today idk why it’s back but I think it’s Bc I’ve cut off trying to be nutritional and actually being healthy the past month. But after I got sick I started to eat healthier and started to be more active and jog early in the morning. But the past month I started to not do any of them anymore I started procrastinating and now I’m twitching again. I haven’t even eaten today other than breakfast. I missed lunch and there’s none left and so I’m just waiting for dinner. Starving rn.

I went through very dark periods during my late teens and early twenties thinking I had ALS. At 17 I had a few anxiety attacks and later I noticed muscle twitches in my hands and later throughout my body. I too also know so much about ALS as I did countless research. At around 25-26 yrs old I outgrew this fear. I am 32 now almost 33 and still have muscles twitches but my fear is long gone. I work in the medical field and recently have encountered a few ALS patients. I am so sorry for them and anyone suffering such horrible disease.

Thank you so much. This video was really reassuring

This makes me feel so much better. I’m really struggling with my anxiety due to there not being much to do during the corona virus. 🙏

This video is keeping me alive, i’m in a really low point in my life, homeless, jobless, addicted to alcohol and having legal trouble, and on top of it all i have developed intense twitching all over my body with perceived weakness, a lot of numbness and tingling. It’s come to the point where my body feels like a cage and i just want out, i can’t numb my feelings anymore, and facing them is uniquely painful. This video gives me hope for the future, hope that i will live long enough to get my life back together. Thank you.

This helped me so much more than google did.

Thank you so much for this content! I have had muscle twitching for two months, but no muscle weakness. Stress and Anxiety from 2020! :(

Your video really makes me feel less panicking. I have falsifications all over my body and always search about what should be the source of it. I'm pretty sure that is anxiety. I feel my arm weak, but I can hold things. I just need to calm down.

I almost cried . . Thank you for this video . I have been going CRAZY . . I have been having occasional muscle twitching, and been living a miserable life . I feel like I am going crazy .

thank you very much i have to tell that you hit the point exactly ...for year and a half i was suffering from these issues started with ibs and after that i started feeling of tingling and numbness in my limps i thought its a ms and i was crying after that i did a brain mri and guess what it was normal after these investigation the symptoms didnt go away fastly but these symptoms disappeared slowly after some weaks i started feeling of muscle weakness and daytime fatigue and shortness breath i did all the blood tests that i can do i spent alot of money and everything was normal that made me crazy whats really wrong with me i went to a neurologist he did physical tests on me and he said you dont even need a EMG or Nerve conduct test ! the conclusion is all of this are because of the anxiety ! we have to know 1-fatal diseases symptoms dont go away and come in different times 2-we dont need to google about our health .i still have some symptoms like migraine and ibs and som head tension in left side but i decided to not think about it and i hope to quit smoking and caffeine because iam sure i will be better by that thank you

I’m so glad I found this video - while searching what could mimic Als. I’ve been dealing with a lot of upper nerve issues in my arm, and some nerve damage for a year. Now having twitching. And it’s SO hard to get into the neurologist to actually get some questions answered, so I’ve been left to spiral and worry to the point of tears almost daily since I have to wait so long to be seen. This video did calm me down since I don’t have clinical signs of muscular weakness, but I have been having twitching literally all over. The last theee nights, it’s like rapid fire of twitches all over from head to toe when I lay down, just quick little twitches here and there. Lately I have been Constantly checking if I can still grip things and if I can quickly lift my legs and run. I’m a mess. Health anxiety to the fullest, but amplified because I actually do have a few things going on right now. So I’m 🥴 This helped relax me tonight. And I’m glad I found your channel. I need a health anxiety therapist - my doctor probably hates me lol

Thank you so much I’m such a hypochondriac and have high anxiety as well as exercise and when you google muscle twitching ALS is what comes up

Thanks. Great vid. Came from all the tests today. Still not sure what's going on, but not ALS:) Wish I saw this a few months ago, might have eased my mind just a tiny bit. Symptoms are worsening, but no weakness at all. I wish you well.

Thanks for this video, it made me feel a lot better!

just wanted to say thank you. I have twitches and i think its from anxiety! Thanks for the reassuring words.

Thank you so much I have been worrying so much, you have made worries go away!

You don’t even understand how much better this video made me feel thank you so much

Thanks for this video. Was really nice to see it. I think I’ll sleep well for the first time in awhile. We probably all fall into the trap of looking for reasons why we have some thing or some condition rather than why we might not.

anyone who is worried get proper testing for lyme disease. 1st of all the symptoms are similar to ALS (or can be) and also lyme disease can trigger neurodegenerative diseases like ALS unless it its treated. also there is something called Cramp-fasciculation syndrome that looks very much like early ALS but is not so dangerous.

I’m 15 years old and I been getting a bit twitchy lately.... it started 1 week ago and has not stopped Thanks for this video I calmed down a bit xd

Bless you for this video, thank you

This is so reassuring. I'm 32. I don't really have muscle twitching but I do have some muscle atrophy all down my left side (left temple/eyebrow, shoulder, bicep, hand, thigh, left foot and left most toes). I had a swimming injury a few years ago where I damaged my left scapula and it still hurts from time-to-time. I work in tech so my posture was poor as well (rolled shoulders, text neck etc). The chiropractor fixed it, and said that my right side was compensating for my left which is why there is atrophy all down my left side. It's not even noticeable, and only I notice it. Health anxiety exacerbates this of course. My grip is the same on both hands and I go running and do weights just fine. I can lift both arms up normally. The left shoulder is a lot weaker (chiro tested this) and as my scapula is winging this makes sense. I need to build up that strength again. I've noticed the past week or so my left-most toes on my left foot feel weaker, but I can still tip-toe and walk on my heels. Again, I'm focusing on it 24/7. I didn't notice it yesterday as I was so busy all day (Zooms). I noticed muscle loss on my ribs last September and nothing has changed/progressed since then. Again, this is connected to the serratus anterior which is near the scapula. It's all connected. I've also always been slim and toned (swimmer) so I've never really had any fat to lose. Thank you for this. I'm going to tick off each day from tomorrow and, if by 21 June nothing has changed, I'll forget about this. I may see the doctor in the meantime to get it checked, but yeah, I can do everything normally but my left side is weaker and atrophied and I would guess this is because of my shoulder (scapula) injury.

I've been on a downward spiral for two weeks because of my fears of having ALS, and its good to know that everything I've felt, checks out with everything you've said, which is very reassuring. Thank you!

This was incredibly helpful ❤❤

I’ve had twitches all over my body all day everyday for maybe 6 years, had an MRI years ago and I’m fine, don’t even worry about them anymore

This calmed me down, thank you Cherelle :)

You just lowered my anxiety so much you’re the best 🤍

this is my therapy right here lol

Thank you for this, seriously, thank you

Can't thank u enough for doing this video. Has helped reassure me.

god thank you for this seriously

Youre video is so reassuring thank you so much. I dread going to the doctor because of little things in my body but the more I notice those things they all seem to point to anxiety and stress.

I have juvenile als, and I wish I was in the shoes of people who have anxiety and panic that they think they have terminal disease based on google search. Stop stressing,, believe me, you will know if you have als. It’s progressing VERY fast. Please dont ask me what my symptoms are. You most probably do not have als if you do not have clinical weakness assessed by a neurologist. Dont waste your time on something you dont have.

I have been ticking the days off for the last 3 months and no muscle loss / weakness. Hopefully this means I don't have ALS, off to see Neurologist tomorrow. This video series has been great its really calmed my fears down. thanks

The video you watch when you normally squat 3x5 at 495 but could only manage 485 on the last set.

Thank you for this video! It really helped.

This video helped me a lot, thank you so much.

I have a lot of muscle twitching, mostly in the calves, but pretty everywhere. My doctor said the same thing that you have said here. I don't have any weakness and this has now gone on for a number of years. I've finally relaxed!

I really laughed when you said that chance of having als on a 26year old is less than that of getting hit by a car... i am 26 too... thanks for bringing that smile... though I am still scared cause I think I am having slurred speech

God bless you for making this!

I have that fear of ALS thanks to Google. I have twitching all over my legs, in my arms, my back, my abdomen, but mostly my legs. My upper left arm feels weak, but totally functional. I went to the hospital and they cleared me of cardio and heart problems when I thought I was going to have cardiac arrest. I just got an MRI for left sided headaches and ear ringing I've had for 2 years now, but the past month, after the MRI appointment, everything started twitching. So now I'm freaking out. Something is wrong with my ear, my doctor agrees with that (hence the MRI, cuz the cat scan a year ago showed nothing), but all these weird feelings in my knees arms and leg are scary.

I swear I hate google...

thank u so much for this video. i needed it so much

The thing to notice is that with als twitching multiple parts of a muscle twitch, not just one spot. And rubbing, squeezing or simply looking at them will not stop them. They are persistent. Also, if you have twitching all over your body then it is not als. Als starts locally and then spreads over the body.

If you can drive a car, you probably don’t have ALS. The flexation needed to step on the brake and gas over and over is absent in ALS. Also, there is no pain in ALS( until later stages) if you can walk on your heels or balls of your feet, you probably don’t have ALS, also, it’s a very rare disease

Thank you for posting this.

I had muscle twitches all over my body for a month and I was scared for many things and went to the gp,he order some tests and I had vitamin D deficiency my levels were at 4 . So I feeling better but it takes time and twitching decreases. But this is a really good Video keep it up. Very helpful

A few years back, I had a medical problem that required me to get part of my intestine removed. I always had anxiety around health, but it seemed to get much worse after that surgery. so I decided to go through therapy and that seemed to help. However, this past semester was a very stressful semester and I started to get a weird twitch in my eye. It gave me some anxiety, but I chocked it up to stress. It went away and now the semester is over and I’m under a lot less stress. But A few days ago, my arm right below, my elbow started twitching nearly nonstop. I thought it was weird because I’ve never really had twitching before and it seemed to be only in my arm but now I’ve been ruminating on it for a couple days and it’s still happening. Today I started to get a few tiny twitches in my eye. I suspect it’s just an anxiety, but I am a little skeeved that it’s seemingly only in the one spot discounting the few twitches I’ve had in my eye today.

I love you, and i love this video. Thank you

Ok, maybe people here can help me as I'm only 35 years old and male. I'm very scared obviously, snd I'm getting EMG testing done soon. About 8-12 months ago I would wake up in the morning with eyes twitching to the point I could barely see for a minute or too. Just spasming eyes. I didn't think anything of it. Then I started getting full facial twitching about 2 months ago everywhere in the face. Nose etc. This HAS continued, and I thought I had issues swallowing. My Dr. Ordered an MRI for which white matter was found in the brain but nothing serious (signs of migraines for white matter in the frontal lobe) which I've had migraines for years so I believe that to be the cause of the white matter. Since these 2 months have passed I now have total body twitching. Feet, arms, legs, and still the face. Ironically, the eyes don't twitch as much. Certain times I feel like I've had issues swallowing still. The Dr. Is ordering an EMG test soon; obviously I'm scared of Bulbar ALS etc. Obviously I'm very scared, but the facts are since I am so scared that can cause throat constrictions that feel horrible with anxiety which might be why I'm having issues swallowing. Over the past 2 months of this twitching going from face to full body, I've been able to walk, lift things, climb stairs, and eat pretty much everything just fine. I've been feeling queasy which I'm sure is from thr immense stress. If this was bulbar ALS, something tells me from the onset of symptoms in the entire face 2 months ago, that I wouldn't be able to eat hardly by now etc. I would love to hear thoughts and kind words?

Thank u so much,being doctor I am so scared of ALS as I am suffering with muscle twiching all over the body. I think its anxiety.

Great, helpful, and important video!! Thank you!!

Thank you very much for posting

I have more predominant tingling in my feet and I have been feeling muscle spasms in different parts of the body, especially in the legs. I'm scared to death of being ALS...

I commented on another video about this, related to my own BFS, but could I please just say I think you are one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen? Sorry if that's an unwelcome or inappropriate comment, but it's just so true. Edit: We overcome BFS by having _it,_ not by allowing it to have _us._

I'm semi in this hole now. My symptoms are both calves twitching. My logical brain knows that the odds are ridiculously in my favour. The odds of getting ALS are very small to begin with. I'm 40 years old so my age based risk is fairly low. So for me to have ALS I would have to first beat the odds of getting this rare disese which is rare in my age group. Then I would have to be in the super rare group within this rare disease who present as twitching first. I can easily reassure myself with the logic but a part of my conscious won't let me go an hour without thinking of ALS. I went out and ran 11 miles a few days ago to prove that I have no weakness, but still there was doubt. How do I fully beat this illness? It isn't consuming me but it's not healthy.

Omg glad I came across this, I was just freaking out today about my muscle twitching. My temple was twitching, last week my chin was twitching for like a week straight lol, then before that my damn lat muscle was twitching. Hahah thanks for the vid

Who else here also has the muscle spasm in their ear? I do! It’s so annoying you can feel and hear it

I know this video was four years ago but I figured I would talk about my worries I’ve had lately. In April I noticed I had pain in my neck like I had slept on it wrong. I had to move everything out of our apartment from the third floor and most likely overdid it. Since then I’ve had twitching all over my body, not just my upper half like you would expect with a neck injury. I do not have neck pain anymore either and have had cramping in the arches of my feet. Started to feel more and more anxious as more things keep popping up however I don’t really notice weakness.

Imagine having health anxiety and also having your mom be diagnosed with ALS. Waiting on genetics, there's a 10% chance of it being genetic, and if so, I have a 50% chance I believe. I am symptomatic but again, I have health anxiety and to add to it I was diagnosed with an extremely rare and possibly fatal autoimmune disease and I basically have imposter syndrome about it. I feel like it can't be real. But it is. My life is roses. 🤣🔫 Kidding. Unless I end up having ALS. I'll pay off my debt and go to a right to die state. My mom feels the same way but she may have a very slow progressing version. So she's not there yet.

Your video saved my sanity.. thank you

I constamtly hade muscle twitching all over my body in last 2 months and i understand that this isnt something dangerous but in last 7 day thinks constantly fall out of my hand and this symptom annoying and scared me and this is why i am here. Has anyone else had a similar experience?

Did your twitches ever subside? I have had the full body twitches for 2 months now. Mine is definitely related to my water intake .... it flares up within minutes if I chug a glass of water. But I went and got blood test and my electrolytes were all in okay ranges. Very strange. Upped my salt intake and that seemed to help for awhile but now it's just like it was again. So strange!!

I’ve been terrified lately. I most recently stopped drinking because I started feeling weird. A week after no alcohol my body felt like it was on fire, then body wide twitching started a week after that. I’ve taken myself to the hospital 3 or 4 times in the last month and they couldn’t find any deficiencies, etc. But one doctor said that ALS twitching originally starts in one area. That eased my mind a bit. Doesn’t explain the body wide burning feeling though. It feels like sunburn everywhere and slight numbness in my hands. I’m only 33. I’m nervous.

Thank you so much for the advise

Again you’re an angel

Go to a doctor people. I do have ALS and never worried until day I was diagnosed. Go to a doctor, not RU-vid.

I swear i'll sit all day on the computer and then get weakness in my hand/arm for a few days and realise its because I've given myself carpal tunnel or keep sleeping on my arm. What keeps setting off my anxiety is when I start misstyping or missclicking on the screen and I freak out. We can all think about a time we dropped something while washing up when it was soapy, or didn't quite notice a bump and tripped on it.

Thank u God bless u

Thank god for this video

So I have an MRI scheduled soon. Due to the pandemic I’m not too sure when. But this video really helped calm my nerves. I don’t only have twitching though. My neck and back really hurt. So we’ll see! But definitely this made me feel so much better. My twitching isn’t constant and doesn’t happen all over the body. It was my bottom lip then my left arm. My left arm DID feel week for a day or 2 but went back to normal. But honestly I was told by my doctor that these symptoms are usually constant and don’t just disappear and come and go as they want. Also I am 23 and he said I’d be apart of that 1% IF ANYTHING. The MRI is more to reassure me then anything but in the meantime I am taking anxiety medications to see if the symptoms subside.

I’m 15 and I was getting it in my left arm where my arms meet and then on my shoulders on both sides sometimes in my cheeks still haven’t noticed weakness going on 4 months of twitches now it’s in my thigh and it feels like it won’t stop help me

how could anybody be anxious when living in such good atmosphere. just the sound and you 1:48

I have twitching everywhere especially in the back. But it's only when my anxiety goes really high. My legs got really stiff when walking and my body feels weak Idk if it's my anxiety or not.

Have a look into ciprofloxacin and other antibiotics that can cause this . Mine all started after I took just 2 ciprofloxacin

I am at this stage now.

I am having twitching all over body since 2 yrs but right now it's on toungue and it's constant and since a week..Nad m so so scared...od bulbur als...I can't sleep at night

I keep focusing on the voice or throat, keep thinking I have it because my voice feels weird, I read about it affecting your tounge or speech

Goddddddddddddddddd blesssssssssss youuuuuuuu

I’m 14 and terrified

Thank you

I’m 32 and experiencing fasciculations that are keeping me awake. It first started in my eyelid and now in my legs, nonstop. Like they just keep going. Is anyone else experiencing this? You mentioned viruses causing this. I was exposed to COVID, and shortly after this began.