Can anyone help me with these symptoms? I am 44, female. It started 5 weeks ago with light twitches in right thumb flexor muscle (on the base of thumb, flexor part of thenar muscles), only when provoked with strong actions of flexor.
I did not think about it but it did not go away, in fact it's getting progressively worse.
3 weeks later twitches were much more easily provoked, with light squeeze or pulling with thumb and happened more times during the day. I decide to rest my hand to let it heal, but it just got worse instead.
Neurologist scared me to death, even thou I did emg about 2 weeks before twitches ( I had twitches on left arm but they were gone soon after) started and it was normal. AT his point I am VERY worried and obsessed with thumb.
4 weeks, twitches started to appear spontaneously and unprovoked, together with strong spasms of flexor, so my thumb moves uncontrollably and sometimes gets "stuck" and my hand feels slightly sore. It starts to appear at night waking me up.
5 weeks, still worse, ortoped diagnosed tendinosis and RSI (I am software developer for 20 years) at thumb but I am still worried as it gets worse. It starts to wake me up at night and twitches look more like spasms still on flexor. Thumb moves and sometimes just sticks to palm. At night it's worse this can last for minutes, it starts to hurt, muscle is sore. At day it happens without being provoked or with, usually if provoked just twitches and last short but if unprovoked spasms. Feels worse at night and when I am not using hand but now whole hand is sore. I am not sure which symptom is real and which I provoked by thinking of it all the time. I tend to get obsessed about als and to fear worst. It is still bad, woke me up 2x times, can't rest, hand is tense and sore, thumb spasms from time to time which is SCARY.
I am really depressed, scared, and also to mention badly anemic (still no reason for that too), iron deficiency anemia. Ca, MG, Ph, k and Na in blood ok, thyroid fine.
More than thumb I am worried I am going crazy with this obsession that I am dying. Couple of doctors told me not to worry but I can't help it. I am tired, almost suicidal.
I am afraid of medications as I have bad bad experience with these.
Does anyone know what is wrong with my hand? Could it be really just tendinosis, with no pain?
So scared...