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What Causes Mild Skeletal Muscle Fasciculations?
20 yo male, 170lbs.
Experiencing mysterious mild skeletal muscle fasciculations. Mostly in eyelids, shoulders, abdominal muscles and arm muscles (e.g. bicep)
Fasciculations last about 10 minutes or less, usually stop if muscle is actively used but sometimes resume soon after.
Fasciculations occur in individual muscles at a time, unilaterally. Which muscle fasciculates is very random, with few recurrences of the same one. Occurrences are no more than once every few months at most. Has been going on for at least 10 years.
No significant previous medical history - no broken bones, no neuro, no family history of parkinsons or choreas.
I'm thinking nutritional -- Hypercalcaemia, vitamin deficiency? Zinc maybe?
Any thoughts?
Experiencing mysterious mild skeletal muscle fasciculations. Mostly in eyelids, shoulders, abdominal muscles and arm muscles (e.g. bicep)
Fasciculations last about 10 minutes or less, usually stop if muscle is actively used but sometimes resume soon after.
Fasciculations occur in individual muscles at a time, unilaterally. Which muscle fasciculates is very random, with few recurrences of the same one. Occurrences are no more than once every few months at most. Has been going on for at least 10 years.
No significant previous medical history - no broken bones, no neuro, no family history of parkinsons or choreas.
I'm thinking nutritional -- Hypercalcaemia, vitamin deficiency? Zinc maybe?
Any thoughts?
Sun, 3 Aug 2014
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