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Wendell,
I had symptoms like that not too long after my diagnosis, and I was worried that it was cancer doing some dirty work on the nerves near my spine. But it turned out to be just run of the mill spinal issues that I worked through with exercises and alignment corrections. I think it unlikely that any medication such as lupron would be a cause. I sure hope it is just a spinal alignment issue with you too. I also noticed that when I was depressed about my situation my core muscles would slacken and allow alignment problems to occur.
For clarity, the nerves to the muscles emerge from the spine at various points. Hand and arm muscles will twitch if the nerves emerging from the neck (cervical) are impinged upon and then send intermittent signals. For the legs the exit points for the nerves are low in the back (lumbar). But the problem with the alignment is often not where the affected nerves lie. An alignment problem in one area can throw off the spinal alignment in other areas as the spinal muscles try to compensate. I got a twitching triceps issue fixed by an alignment correction near the shoulder blades (thoracic).
