Afraid of MND

Hi to everybody! I am 18 years old, I've moved to university in September. For the past 2 months I have been experiencing strange symptoms but I think they have roots in older symptoms. These older symptoms are:

• Visual snow/ faint pulsing movement in the vision since August-September 2017 (aura-like?) 24/7
• Since January --> trembling hands, neck muscles on the right side are a bit smaller and then right leg also, asymmetrical smile, but it was quite slight (especially the smile) and no trouble

  -and anxiety disorder/probs. stress-induced PCOS since I was a child (I had nice parents tho!)

The newer ones began with a chest tightness on the left side on a Monday. On the next day I was crossing my legs and found the right leg is very tight when I got up. I was afraid it's a PE. This is how it began u see 😦

Since then I have been seeing:

• I think both my legs are getting thinner, but my left leg is still the thicker one. They use to be so bulky because they are short. Stretch marks I'd not noticed before.
• Twitches over the chest, not fascics though I don't think, more like a pulse
• My SCM muscle in the neck I really think is thinner/ hard to see : ( It feels tight around there. I do stretch my tongue a lot to test. My speech feels a little off but I've had years when I psychosomatised hoarse/high voice out of anxiety so I'm not sure.
• Thumb seems a bit thinner at the base. The fasciculations in the palm went away mostly, but I'm afraid the muscle there is thinner?
• Constant sensation in my right leg, like it is extremely gently contracting and relaxing.
• Foot cramps at certain times/positions
• Ankle pain when I walk slowly but not really at other times?

  I'm not too weak I think

I know some of these sound very anxiety-related, it's mostly the perceived wasting (I'm fairly certain of it in the neck) which I often look at : ( I have a doctor's appt. Thursday, at the previous appointment they didn't say it was not ALS but that it's very rare and I have no symptoms at the moment (muscle tone in the legs was good)

I worry my risk factors are: stress, inflammation if this is the source of my eye problems, also toxicity cuz I ate raw chocolate a week before the new onset not realising it can contain heavy metals : (

Thanks so much, hope you're all well too!

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