by Ryan on December 20th, 2004, 8:03 pm
Amy,
Great post. Now that I think about it, right before my twitching started I stopped drinking coffee and started drinking lots of tea. Because I was so stressed working on a case, I began to eat alot of chocolate during the day, and I would drink red wine at night.
I have stopped the tea but not the wine or chocolate but I will now.
This is such a great site because doctors really know so little about BFS. All my doctor told me was what I was experiencing was totally normal and it is benign. How many of us have friends who twitch that say nothing and don't freak out because they never "googled" the term "muscle twitch."
I have finally come to terms that my twitching is a result of diet (electrolytes) and anxiety over ***. In the past week I have increased my electrolytes and decreased my stress and my life is better for it. After 6 months of constant panic, I finally feel like myself again.
For those of you reading this who are twitching in silence, I encourage you to become a member and make a post about your story. I went on this site for months without making a post. I was too scared. It is almost like an alcoholics first step to recovery is to publicly admit they have a problem to strangers...the first step to beating your anxiety (which is worse than the annoying muscle twitches) is to tell others. I have been there and now know I wasted months of my life fearing that I was dying and my doctors were wrong. This almost cost me my marriage. I spent hours on the internet searching ***. I thought about *** every second, it was my obsession. When I tried talking to my wife and doctor they did not understand what I was going through and brushed it aside as anxiety and benign. The people on this board understand. They have been there.
Take this from me, I am not a hypochondriac. I never went to the doctors for anything. I never worried about my health until I "googled" "muscle twitch." BFS is serious, I went from feeling great to feeling as bad as one can feel. I became neurotic and constantly begin testing my strength, walking on my toes and heels, and staring in the mirror at my tongue to see if it was twitching (which it was, but ask who ever is in your home to stick out their tongue and you will discover their tongue also twitches when extended). I thank God everyday for this website and its members.
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Ryan on December 20th, 2004, 10:27 pm, edited 2 times in total.