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Husband:moderate to severe health anxiety/worries ofals/no weakness/only contraction fasciculations/all drs say no als. 29yo. cause of fasciculations?
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Other reasons for Fs: Anxiety can lead to a lot of diseases or disease like states. So you have to get this thought of ALS out of your mind because ALS does not develop under 50 years of Age....so you do not have any reasons to worry about ALS. Fasciculations are a sign of muscles under stress of some kind or another. Some medications can cause muscle problems like this. I would advise you to exercise your muscles dai
Answered 4/11/2017
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