by chrissi on December 10th, 2011, 6:37 am
I would bet that a whole lot of people have tongue fascists, but that they are not detectet. I feel mine as some little electrical zapping feeling, but not very strong. So which "normal=not hyper anxious" individual would leave his comfortable seat, his work place or whatever or risk an accident just for a little tickling tongue. And even more..every person not aware of what a fasciculation is (=in relaxed muscle mostly) would stick out his tongue wide to check what is tickling there, which makes many fasciculations stop. You can see tongue fascists so easy because there's no fat in there, that means that people CHECKING their tongue have much more visual feedback than for other fasciculations. This is why people with BFS become so obsessed with their twitching tongues. As Twitchydoc mentioned, EMGs in healthy people are not really very helpful to get an idea of how much twitching their tongue is, as you have to be very close to the twitching fascist. So as long as there is no absolutely nuts control group that lets doctors make some kind of weird vodoopuppet lookin thing with their tongue , they will have no realiable data about how common tongue twitching is in healthy individuals. Pleeeease understand that these little zapping twitches we get are so completely different to the tongue twitches ALS sufferers get. I have seen videos of ALS tongues twitching...holy *beep*, NO, this is not what we have.....please let this get into your brain. If your doc still insists that tongue twitching is more sinister than other twitching, then please ask him why it seems to be OK for him to have regular twitching on the lips like many average people have (which are also bulbar nerve innervated muscled as far as I know ), and not in the tongue.
"Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it" Kahlil Gibran
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained