Muscle Twitching and Spasms | NEJM

HI Doctors And all who will read this. This is very long because I wanted all to fully understand the history.  I want to know if this Is related to any of those,  Hashimoto, Allergies, or something else.  At this point I will just go to the ER and doing a fruit fast for 3 days but just want to see if anyone is going through this and if you've found any help.  I don't know what to do anymore.


I am a 32 year old Male.  Very fit, Work out my entire life (worked in a gym at a ponit) played futbol (high school varsity & for fun since I was a child ) and street basketball with friends prior to COVID-19.  Very muscular at 215-220lbs 5"11..  This is to say that I thought 

everything about my health was. 


ENDOCRINOLOGIST 

Back in 2018, my Thyroid levels came out a little off on my annual physical, saw an endodoncronologist who said I had Hyperthyroidism that DID NOT need treatment but all thyroid tests T3 T4 Blood tests & ultrasounds have been in normal ranges and still are.  Now new Endo did a new antibody for thyroid peroxidase  test and found that I am at 165 out of 0-34 normal range and think I may have Hashimoto. But said it's nothing to worry about still , he's seen patients in the 1300s. I said well I don't want to get there so it needs treatment but nothing is being done.


COVID

Once Covid sarted back in March-April 2020, I went from working out 4-5 days a week at planet fitness and playing Futbol (Soccer) on the weekends to very minimum exercise.  That is, going to the park for a run and just body workouts, no more sports, and sometimes doing pushups at home.  Also went from working at the office to remote and have been since 2020.


CARDIOLOGIST AND ANXIETY

Around April-May 2020, I was working out at home doing pushups with the rotating twisting pushups handles (Had been using it for years), and felt like I hurt the left side of my side; like either a pop or pulled muscle.  I didn't think it was anything serious, but stopped working out and then started feeling some stabbing chest pain like 2-3 weeks later.  Went to a PCP and they did an EKG which came out abnormal heart rhythm.  The doctor said "Something is wrong with your heart and you need to go see a cardiologist".  From that time, the way he said that got me so scared and so much anxiety that I've been dealing with since and until this day if I had the slightest chest pain.  

CARDIOLOGIST:  since then, I've been following up with a cardiologist who did all the tests (EKGs, Stress Test, heart ultrasounds, and questionnaires), By the grace of the most high God, they found that my heart is completely healthy and told me I probably have COSTOCHONDRITIS due to that chest injury which I never treated professionally.  Only thing my ultrasound showed was a small mild leak in one of my heart valves which they tell me is normal in 80% of people.  Advised blood pressure and heavy weight lifting can do that and make it worse.  Maybe the weightlifting did that to me.  I still get chest pain now but more in my chest muscle or cartilage, and sometimes that stills kicks in my anxiety.  My heart is healthy.


APRIL 2023: BODY SPASMS, MUSCLE PAIN, FATIGUE, MORE ANXIETY.


DO NOT SELF DIAGNOSE, IT WILL CAUSE YOU MORE PAIN, STRESS AND ANXIETY. STOP GOOGLING AS WELL, SEE A DOCTOR FIRST.


Around April 2023 last year, while I was sitting down working, I felt a spasm in my left upper stomach muscle, like that one first ab muscle on the left is best way I can describe it.  At first I didn't think nothing of it, but it happened more and more that day and then I started getting them all over my body as my stress and anxiety level tose in panic. I was still hoping it was lack of sleep and stress from my new job but it just got worse.  SPASMS WERE PAINLESS BUT ANNOYING.  Thighs, arms, legs, all over stomachs, back, neck, and later on sometimes rarely in my face like lip and eye a few times. Thought it was heart related since it started on the left side of my upper stomach so I went to the the cardiologist, EKG and Ultrasound were normal and same as last time.  This worsened and my anxiety went through the roof googling things and seeing diseases like MS, ALS, and other neurologic issues.  Before I went to a neurologist, my new PCP did testing to see if it's vitamin related and all my vitamins were within normal range, except I noticed they were on on lower side or normal.  Also my CREATININE was a high as well but it's always been around that and sometimes normal for years and my old PCP always said it's because I work out and have more muscle than the usual person so that's normal. D3, B12 and B12 were normal but on the low side of normal but doctor says it's fine that's not what's causing the spams and muscle pain and tingling.


FALL FROM UHAUL APRIL 2023

I also fell from a ubaul truck while moving and tried to catch the fall on my left side and hand.  Ended hurting hurting my groin area ( the cartilage or bone where my left thigh attchach to my body, the middle of that. My left Index and middle fingers pretty badly.  Sorry for days and still feel the soreness now. Doctor said no big deals.


Vitamin D3: 36 out of 30-100 LOW END OF NORMAL

Vitamin B12: 505 out of 232-1245 normal range LOW END OF NORMAL 

Magnesium: 2.1 out of 1.6-2.6 normal range 

B1 Thiamine: 11 out of 8-30 normal range 

MCHC: 31.9 out of 32-36 normal range 

HEMOGLOBIN A1C: 5.7 out of 0.0-5.6 range so doc say I'm pre diabetic and need to modify my diet.

Glucose : 100 out of 74-100 normal range 


July 2023 CREATININE : 1.5 out of .70-1.20 normal range HIGH

Sept 2023: 464 U/L out of 20-200 normal range.

October 2023: Went down to 322U/L after neurologist gave me Prednisone pack and said I have inflammation but nothing serious.


What I see is that these results have been similar and close when I compare them to the others since 2018 2020 and so forth. My Old PCP used to tell me to take vitamin D and B12 but didn't say I was deficient.


By this time I was so stressed and anxiety kicked in through the roof because I thought I had MS or ALS or those other nerve diseases related to muscle spams.  I had a couple anxiety attacks from sleep and heart was beating a lil fast and loud.  I thought I was going to die.


SEPTEMBER 2023 NEUROLOGIST : 

When I went to the neurologist, he said I'm fine and I just have some muscle inflammation from working out too much and just have me Prednisone pack for a week.  I noticed whole taking this med, I was losing my calf muscles and leg muscles on the side of the legs.  But I was also super stressed and has lost close to 20 lbs from 222 to 204lbs in just under 2 months.  I freaked out again because I thought I was starting to lose muscles in my legsbut neurologist says that's just a little atrophy which is normal for a 32 year old and also the Prednisone also do that as it is for inflammation.  So that calmed me down.  


FACIAL, ARMS, LEGS,  PUFFINESS 

In October, I was in my garage all day doing work (FL) and after that I went to cut the grass.  It was a little hot and sunny but nothing I haven't done before for longer periods of time. Shortly, I felt the left of my side getting numb and puffy.  I freaked out because I thought I'd have a stroke or have MS. Took some Aleve and it went away, second time I was in front of the PC for a few hours, third time I wasn't doing anything.  Neurologist sent me to do MRI of the brain and that came back normal, later he saw I was still worried then he did the nerve condition studies, that came back normal as well.  So my neurologist then thought I was too stressed and need to work on my anxiety because all my test said I am fine.  PCP said let's take some meds for infections and allergies and mystania gravis and Rabdho, just in case.  But these symptoms are still here today and we are in 2024 but just not as bad but feel the puffiness more in the morning amd gies away during the day and sometimes stays during the day.


JANUARY 2024

Pulled out an infected tooth in October  because I thought it was related but it's not since I'm still having these symptoms. Iral surgeon sent me to an ENT for sinus infection, but CT Scan said I have a dormant cyst and a little sinus that ENT says he's 99% sure those symptoms aren't sinus related.  He thinks it's because I GRIND AND CLINCH my teeth at night.  Have me a mouth guard to buy.  Saw My cardiologist about that since sometimes the puffiness is in my legs or arms or pectos and she said those are not signs or any heart problems and EKG came back normal in Jan 2024.


I always feel tired, fatigue, Bloated all the time with gas no matter what I eat, low energy, no motivation ,the puffiness in the face, tongue, lips, and sometimes throat, arms and legs are still here now.  Spams finished greatly bust mostly feel them in my stomach now so I don't know if that's gas from bloating and stress and acid reflux or if I need to see a GASTRO doctor , can feel the puffiness in those areas like they are a little heavier or number than normal but you can't see it from my face just by looking 95% of the time.  Only the first couple times my wife noticed a little different in that side of my face . I Went through depression, anxiety.


All other tests came back normal for myositis, Aldolase, T3 T4, Lactic Acid, CKMB Marker, Cortisol, muscle antibody, etc.


TESTOSTERONE TEST CAME WITHIN NORMAL ranges but more on the lower side just like my vitamin B12 and D.


TESTOSTERONE: 482 out of 250-1100 normal range. Lower end of normal


TESTOSTERONE FREE: 75.8 out of 46-224 normal but lower end or normal 

TESTOSTERONE bioavailable: 146 out of 110-575 normal but lower end of normal 

Sex hormone binding : 28 out of 10-50 normal

Albumin: 4.2 out of 3.6-5.1


Can you please help? All doctors are saying I'm fine but my body is saying differently .


Is anyone going through this as well?


Thank you so much

God bless you all.

When this happens to me, i usually feel like cutting open the area the spasm is taking place and seeing what's actually happening inside.

that looks uncomfortable

Not as severe as this man’s but i have them quite a few times

This is how mine have started doing lately. Luckily it's not lasting long bc these ones can be very painful lol

i need someone to reassure me that im not going to die or smthn😭😭 i have horrible anxiety and some of these comments have me worried. So im 16 and I am always getting random muscle spasms on the side of my head (i have it on other areas too but this concerns me the most), like at least once a week it happens. It usually only lasts for like 5 seconds at most but sometimes it has done it repeatedly within the same hour. I didn’t really care for it at first but I only now realized that I’ve been dealing with it for a while .. am i going to die☠️☠️

2024❤

I have these muscle spasms all over my body

Thanks to Covid vaccine 💉

I have muscle twitching all over my body. It feels good. I kind of enjoy it.

That would drive me bonkers!

I have these all the time at the age of 14 but on a much smaller scale like

Stress or high blood pallets or dehydration

Hello friends, why does this man move his chest and arms by himself

What cause 😢 please

Interesant

Is muscle twitching dangerous for health

exact same

Theres always that one tiny muscle in the back of the shoulder somewhere that does this once a month 😂😂

looked up cramp fasciculation syndrome, that's bad enough but i got here instead somehow and this is so much worse. yet another reason not to start smoking.

I got this for the first time ever in my right shoulder in the middle of the night. It was sooo unsettling. Made me nauseous.

Any neet aspirant here ?

May have jinn issue. Allah knows best.

That shit looks painful and animated

i find them so annoying like my gosh i cant imagine going through this much of it

when I slap the part on my leg that gets muscle spasms, it stops

i've had it many times, its not even painful, just a weird sensation as if there's a worm inside of u moving around

Give him ignatia 30.

😢

My friend gets this but it is caused by some rare blood diseases that he recently was diagnosed with. Makes my body hurt just watching. He called me one day when he just got home his whole body got stiff and started spasming and twitching he accidentally dialed my number and the pain of him screaming and trying to call out for help was really sad to hear over a voicemail.

How many times have you watched this
Me

Yes

Anyone had palatal neck myoclonus ? Click sounds coming from neck.. so difficult so pray for me everyone! And did it go away ? It started after flu and very stressful time..

The spirit of muscle be with you

I have had this in my legs my ribs and everywhere for months I'm only 31 what is it

Benign fasciculation syndrome

Strange as it may seem, but when the right side of my neck twitches, it feels so soothing

Im 19 and im dealing with these I hate it

Bro this is happening to me rn I can feel it

I get this all the time in various places in my body, mainly calf muscles, feet and back, feels like a heartbeat in your skin

Thanks!

Sometimes I mistook it as palpitations when it happens on the chest

omg im getting chills for watching this

I had this randomly in my foot after exercising all day once. My toes kept spasming and it began to hurt. I couldnt sleep or anything. I ended up sitting on my foot.

The doctor said I said cervical vertigo as I would get sharp pains in my upper neck region and dizziness accompanying it. A moment ago I got like flashy sensation in the left side of my head and few minutes before that, same sensations in my neck. Idk what to do it's concerning

I actually love it when my upper right arm twitches. It’s obvious too. Feels good in a very weird way

I had this has a child and still do, I think it was caused by my fear of an abusive mother who occasionally used me as a punchbag, An acquired habit from this? In 1982 they called it Essential Tremor with Hemi-Facial Spasm. I was given then and still receive 12 Botox facial injections every 2 months, and 6 Botox injections in my neck rear muscles. My head nodding and shaking caused people to stare, children were fascinated by it. Today I am a recluse, I hide, I am unsociable and beginning to look forward to dying, PS: All the self-medication remedies tried failed, apart from one: Take one Magnesium Tablet a day, with a small glass of water that contains a pinch of salt, ordinary salt, together they are fantastic, separately you would not notice any difference or benefit. 83 year old man, English off course, what else could I be?

I've had these spasms for 6 months straight. My backs just collapses. When it happens it's hard to stand back up. Drs do a MRI and says everything looks good!!

Those movements are fasciculations or myoclonus?

Me I have short jolts ( short jerks ).

brief jolts, which do not last and are not repeated. The jolt lasts a fraction of a second, like the time of a reflex. Does anyone among you know what this is? Thank you.