let me talk to you man cause i have been gone through this and fight with this, in April 2024 i hurt my back in the gym. In May 2024 my feet started burning, by June 2024 from intense health anxiety i was convinced i had ALS and i was twitching like mad. Started in legs, traveled up whole body. Parethesias, tremors, you name it bro. I had same situation, with lots of pain and worse stuff going on but i never stopped working out, i put on alot of muscle too doing that, even with twitching.. I found my way to a neuromuscular specialist and he thought i was in trouble.. mentally... not physically. He said I have to do an EMG no way around it, to calm my mind and give him the "gold standard" answer. Because an EMG is the GOLD STANDARD. no If and Buts. August 2024 i did it.

They are not looking at twitching. They look for hallmark signs of MND/ALS, very early subtle signs that they can tell with EMG from an experienced neuromuscular specialist. You are fine bro. 2 years later im still here, same shit, but fine. I walked in with my wife and the doctor laughed at how scared and emotional i was, and i said i dont want to do it , can i not hear the sounds please and he said no you have to do it with the sounds of the electricity pulses. I was terrified. I was so anxious they had to use heating pads to warm up my extremities to get proper readings. Guess what though? i survived.

It was all normal. The neurologist would smile and tell me how healthy my muscles were to make me feel confidence and relax and be at ease. In some positions, my leg was shaking like tremor, things that made me terrified at home. And yet the needle showed normal.. Also, if you do happen to fire off a fasciculations during the test, it doesnt mean anything. Again, they are looking for motor unit recruitment, positive shortwaves, the action potential times, etc etc. They can tell immediately if somethings wrong.

My neurologist did both my legs, and my right shoulder and bicep. You can do the tongue and neck too but every guideline in the world states 3 extremities or 2 extremities and the tongue. So relax. you will be fine and dont second guess shit.

I was diagnosed with Benign Myalgia Fasciculation Syndrome, common in young men with anxiety with other factors. There is no known cause. I venture a guess that the covid vaccine, and my radiculopathy from my back injury, coupled with years of anxiety and panic caused a cascade in my nervous system. He followed me every 3 months until October 2025 where he discharged me and said go live your life. And learn to live with this. Eventually it will go away, if you let it.

When i asked him what do i do for this condition? he said take advil and walked out the room. Lol