“MS is a disease of the central nervous system which includes the brain, spinal cord and optic nerves,” continues Dr. Williams, MD, clinical neurologist with Morehouse School of Medicine, an MS specialist and clinical advisor for the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation. “Muscle fasciculations are not a common symptom of MS,” says Mitzi J. Or, to put it another way, think of the type of twitching that occurs in an eyelid happening in a large muscle such as in the leg.
Though MS is well-known to cause muscle spasticity, you should not confuse spasticity (continuously contracted muscles that leads to stiffness) with twitching – that undulating sensation that worms are squirming just under the skin. MS certainly affects the muscles, but - are fasciculations or any kind of “twitching” muscle action a common part of this autoimmune disease? Does MS Really Cause Twitching Muscles? However, some people’s health anxiety is more tuned in to multiple sclerosis. When a twitching muscle evokes fear in a person, that fear is usually over ALS, a fatal motor neuron disease that can cause what are known as fasciculations. There are differences between benign muscle twitching and the twitching muscles of multiple sclerosis.
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