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| sagelady |
Posted - 04/10/2008 : 05:21:56
Has anybody heard of Benign fasiculation syndrome being a TMS disorder?
Sage |
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| pan |
Posted - 04/11/2008 : 05:31:00
‘That’ forum is what really installed the ALS fears into me. I followed a link to it and thought it was quite an interesting forum but then began to dig a little to deep, literally a couple of days after joining the BFS forum all my twitching started.
There is an active debate within the BFS world as to what BFS actually is and what causes it, for some it is an auto immune issue, others see it as PNHE syndrome and others see it as plain old anxiety.
It does appear to me that many people with BFS do have sensations and symptoms that can all be explained with an anxiety thesis…what makes matters somewhat more complicated is that the vast majority of people end up at the BFS forum as they fear ALS, a terminal neurological disease for which there is no cure. Once the fear and sensations get combined you have a heady and potent mix that quickly leads to health anxiety on a grand scale.
I do think that many of the BFS sensations can be considered to be somatic in origin and the person who is likely to somatise is also a person likely to be effected by free floating anxiety, like many things like this there are probably little elements of various things that conspire to give us the syndrome that we feel compelled to name.
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| sagelady |
Posted - 04/11/2008 : 02:52:24
Thanks all. This one was actually for some one else. Before I had her jump on the TMS bandwagon, thought I'd get the groups opinion. Although I believe everyone , TMS or not could benefit from learning more about themselves.
Sage |
| 1yehmon2 |
Posted - 04/10/2008 : 23:12:42
Anytime you hear the word benign in fron of any diagnosis, it means "this is nothing serious, pay it no mind." Definately TMS! |
| mk6283 |
Posted - 04/10/2008 : 18:45:36
Definitely TMS. Knowing you, SageLady, I'd trust me on this one and let that one go right now. Otherwise, it'll lead you down another path you really don't want or need to go down. You have TMS.
Best,
MK |
| Hillbilly |
Posted - 04/10/2008 : 06:35:01
Yes. Muscle twitching caused by anxiety. Nothing to it. Let those muscles twitch away or hurt or do whatever they choose and pay them no mind. |
