This isn’t about why the muscle twitching of ALS spreads throughout the body, but why benign fasciculations quickly spread to other areas of the body. And this quick, so-called spreading typically occurs the moment a [...]
People get more worried if the whole toe “jumps” or jerks vs. just feeling a twitch without seeing it. […]
Do you suddenly wake up in the middle of the night and realize that the cause is twitching muscles? Big twitches in a major muscle group are most likely to snap someone out of a [...]
The butt has large muscles and when they begin twitching, this is hard to ignore. “Twitching of various muscles are, in medical lingo, termed fasciculations, which are small, local, involuntary contractions of muscles in any [...]
You suddenly feel something squirming or thumping in your neck, stomach or leg: Is this a blood vessel throbbing or a muscle twitching? Sometimes, the “crawling” sensation occurs in multiple spots at the same time [...]
When a person lately begins suffering from a lot of unexplained muscle twitching, they may try to convince themselves it’s low blood sugar because this diagnosis would sure beat a diagnosis of ALS. [...]
You’ve been noticing some twitching going on in your butt and/or leg muscles, and are hoping it’s due to your sciatica rather than ALS. Muscle fasciculations can be caused by ALS, and “fasciculation” refers to [...]
If that twitching middle finger is beginning to worry you sick because you googled it and a bunch of ALS sites popped up, here are answers from a doctor who is double board certified: neurology [...]
Chronic muscle twitching (fasciculations) at various locations of the body can actually be caused by a gluten intolerance, and the effective treatment could be an elimination of gluten. […]
Perhaps your muscle twitching started in one spot and then “spread” so that it’s now all over your body and you’re fearing the worst—like ALS? Yes, muscle twitching is listed on medical sites like webmd.com [...]
If you're going nuts because of muscle twitching all throughout your entire body, stop fearing the worst, and don't even worry about something even a little bit serious. Muscle twitching isn't necessarily a sign of [...]
