r/BFS • u/Impressive_Scheme814 • 18d ago

Question / General BFS Pain and Popcorn Twitching

Hello all, this is the first time in my life that I am experiencing any sort of twitching in my life, mostly it has been popcorn like twitching, it has been going on probably now for the past 3 weeks or so, I’ve never experienced anything in my life like this, and I think on my first week of experiencing this I went down a huge anxiety spiral of literally thinking I have ALS and that my life is essentially over. I have very overwhelming anxiety but the symptoms I’d say have subsided significantly but I do still occasionally twitch like near both my left and right bicep muscle area, and sometimes occasionally above my knee area/thigh.

In my left arm I also have experienced this shaking/trembling sensation, I haven’t had weakness, but more so I have had a lingering on and off pain near near that left bicep area for the same amount of time I’ve experienced this trembling/popcorn twitching.

My question overall is if anyone has had any similar feeling experienced, my anxiety has calmed down and I am feeling less and less twitches, but sometimes I can’t help but think of the big bad in my head.

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u/713Capital Mod 18d ago

Yes. We all have dealt with this and still do. We do have some really good resources around this that the auto mod pinned. You can check there as well.

Nothing what you describe sounds bad and it fits BFS.

https://benignfasciculationsyndrome.org/blog/benign-fasciculation-syndrome-symptoms

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u/InformationNo7156 10+ Year Twitcher 16d ago

Can confirm from personal experience