Benign Fasciculation Syndrome: Causes and Solutions

If you've been diagnosed with benign fasciculation syndrome, you may still be experiencing a lot of panic as a result of what you've been through for the past several weeks or months. This is because the symptoms of benign fasciculation syndrome can resemble, or seemingly resemble, symptoms of ALS and multiple sclerosis. If you have benign fasciculation syndrome, you're perhaps now wondering how to get rid of it, not to mention what the heck even causes benign fasciculation syndrome in the first place.

There are causes and solutions for benign fasciculation syndrome. The causes - are many, and include anxiety. If your case of benign fasciculation syndrome has been caused by anxiety, then logic says you can cure benign fasciculation syndrome by managing your anxiety. The anxiety may or may not relate to fear of ALS or MS. Anxiety over, for example, your job, may have initially caused some BFS symptoms. But the symptoms of benign fasciculation syndrome went wild after you found out (via the Internet) that BFS symptoms are also symptoms of ALS and MS.

A new level of anxiety set in and exacerbated your pre-existing benign fasciculation syndrome symptoms. And since then, your body hasn't had much of a rest from benign fasciculation syndrome. One of the most effective treatments or even cures, for BFS, is TIME PASSAGE. Because you know that once a certain period of time passes, what I call the grace period, you can't possibly have ALS or MS, as these afflictions don't exactly take their sweet time in wasting away at your body.

The first few months within the onset of benign fasciculation syndrome can be harrowing, to say the least. I recommend buying a separate calendar and some sticky-stars or sticky colored circles about the diameter of a nickel. Every morning, place a sticky on that day on the calendar. Before you know it, you will see rows of stickies, indicating time passage. Before you know it, the entire calendar page will be full of stickies, indicating one month behind you.

And if you had something more alarming than benign fasciculation syndrome, you know that after 30 days, you'd be noticing some very bothersome symptoms, like difficulty holding your coffee cup or going down a staircase.

Benign fasciculation syndrome can have physical causes, such as 1) Medications, 2) Being taken off medications, 3) viral infections, 4) Lyme disease, 5) Calcium, magnesium and/or potassium deficiency, 6) Fatigue, 7) Hard exercising, and 8) No known cause. If you're taking medications, ask your doctor about side effects, or effects of quitting the medications, that may resemble benign fasciculation syndrome.

The solutions - to benign fasciculation syndrome are clear once you establish cause. But one thing's for sure: BFS symptoms almost always become more pronounced when you worry about the condition. Anxiety and hard exercising are the top causes of benign fasciculation syndrome. But the solution to benign fasciculation syndrome does NOT mean quit exercise!

Once you have retrained your mind (how?) to relax and recognize the symptoms of BFS for what they are -- benign -- you won't mind these symptoms as a result of exercise. In fact, you may even begin to use BFS symptoms as a way to confirm that you put in a great exercise session.

Stress management is another solution to benign fasciculation syndrome. I do not recommend prescription drugs. A lot of people with BFS take prescription drugs. I'm all for medications when it comes to having a life-threatening condition that can drop you at any moment. But drugs for anxiety? I just don't believe in it. Before going this route, do some very careful thinking. Anxiety medications (as with just about all medications) can pack some serious side effects.