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Benign fasciculation syndrome (BFS)

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I've had muscle twitching all over my entire body, 24/7, it never ever stops. Going into 3 years of this insanity I finally have learned to somehow live with this but it's not easy. What is very upsetting to me is that the numerous neurologist and endocrinologist and internal medicine doctors I've seen over the last 3 years with dozens upon dozens upon dozens of tests coming back all negative etc I find it very disheartening that all these doctors just chalk this up to benign fasciculation syndrome and send us on our way with either Xanax or tell us to go on a antidepressant. I'm so tired of this. I do not understand why all these neurologists from around the world are not coming together and trying to figure out what on God's green earth is causing benign the circulation syndrome because there's nothing benign about it, it's never ending and tormenting people like me that try to ignore constant muscle twitching all over! These doctors just send us on our way and I don't see any research going on or neurologist talking to other neurologist trying to find out what is the cause of this. How can all these doctors all these specialists just chalk this up to benign fasciculation syndrome and not get to the root cause of what the heck is causing this. I'm so tired of it and I'm tired of the nonchalant attitude from too many doctors. We need real doctors to put their heads together and scientist as well and find out what has caused every muscle in our body to short-circuit and vibrate and twitch etc non-stop.

I'm just very discouraged and disgusted with the medical community that they just think nothing of giving us this diagnosis of benign fasciculation syndrome because that's an easy way out for them to just tell us oh it's benign and go on your way and just deal with your entire body feeling like it's short circuiting all the time. Until I see neurologist and other doctors getting together along with scientists and trying to find out at least trying to find out what the cause is I'm through with them. Yes they've sent me on my way Yes they told me to live with it but you know what that's not good enough for me. There's got to be some root cause or several root causes for what causes a human body to have every single muscle from head to toe twitch constantly.

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Honestly, you express my feelings exactly about the medical profession and their total disregard for our suffering. I’m thinking there aren’t enough people making enough loud noise and there isn’t enough money pouring into the coffers of the research community to make it worth their while.

I wonder how many people out there actually suffer from BFS and have no idea what they have. I suffered for many years seeing every sort of doctor imaginable and all but the last doctor (who I saw 2 months ago) told me they had never seen a patient with my symptoms and despite having me take every possible test they still had no name for my condition. What that tells me is that doctors these days want to fit everyone into a box so they can get you in and out within 10-15 minutes. God forbid your symptoms stymie them. Instead of trying to help you by doing a little research they just tell you there’s nothing wrong that they can see and they send you away without answers or hope. Or as in many cases, you are prescribed a drug to “calm” you. Thankfully I was never prescribed Xanax or anything like it. I will say that Gabapentin did help along with the other remedies I figured out on my own. See my original post for that formula, although I doubt it will be the solution for everyone.

I have suffered with my body tremors for years and they can never find much with me either. It takes a toll on the mental health. It is truly frustrating that doctors don’t seem to crave enough knowledge to figure out what the heck is happening to people.