Neat, I can just copy and paste from the previous post. Well, almost
1. Age - 27
2. Gender - Male
3. Race - White
4. Length of time you have been twitching? - 2 years
5. Was there anything that appeared to trigger the twitching. (i.e. viral infection) or would you like to tell a rambling story?
Almost 3 years ago I drank too much Japanese potato spirits on Christmas eve and was sick for about a week and ended up with a bad sinus infection. On New Year's my baby finger on my right hand twitched for around 4 hours straight and, hypochondriac I am, worried about having some sort of degenerative brain disorder. Then I was fine for 10 months until October when I was walking around the hills in Dazaifu and started to feel weird tingling feelings in my calves. It got steadily worse since then until this summer (1.5 years later), when my girlfriend had to go back home (ie, 12 time zones away), it got so bad that I went to a doctor who brought up the possibility of ALS and then booked me an appointment with a neurologist for the following week. A very bad week of waiting. The neurologist looked very grave until he tested my grip strength, but then he said I was fine and with help from the people here I've stopped worrying so much and the symptoms have lessened.
6. Do you have any Anxiety or OCD disorders? Anxiety..I have always been somewhat of a hypochondriac and worrier.
7. Any other medical conditions that may be connected to BFS? Restless legs.
8. Did you go through the typical ALS scare so common on this forum? Yes.
9. Body region most affected? Calves maybe, but really it goes after my whole body.
10. Most unusual area affected: Forehead, back.
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So, do only white people get BFS or what?
