Hello, I am a 19 year old man named Matthew. For the past year I’ve been petrified of ALS (AKA Lou Gehrig’s Disease). I’ve had so many bizarre symptoms like cramping, pains in my body, twitches, fingers licking and tensing up, objects becoming heavier, and weird hand symptoms overall. I want to calm down and believe that I’m ok, but I swear I keep on feeling new and weird symptoms by the day. I’ve spoke to multiple people on doctors and everyone says I’m ok, even my girlfriend who has had a family member with ALS. This should bring me comfort, but I still find myself panicking because of these endless feelings. I even convince myself that it’s most likely not ALS because I have symptoms that come and go and I know that if I had it then it wouldn’t vanish, it would persist and get worse, and it wouldn’t cause my hands to swap symptoms. But I can’t get these tense and locking up symptoms to disappear even while calming down. I hope that I just overworked my hands and arms because of all of this but I really don’t know anymore. It’s hard to use my hands when they lock up and tense up and I don’t know what I can do. I know its not weakness since I’m still able to get a good grip on things and hold onto things fine but these bizarre symptoms just.. aren’t vanishing for good! I’m so tired of having health anxiety. It’s ruining my life and peace and I really really hope one day (if this really isn’t ALS) I will overcome it.