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"There is no easy way of saying this but your EMG confirms~~You have ALS. I'm sorry." I wouldn't wish these words on my worse enemy. It's been a year since my PALS diagnosis and yet it feels at times as if it were yesterday. In less than a year we have gone from drop foot to using a trilogy...
My 55 yo husband has had neurological symptoms for a couple of years and was just told by a neurologist that ALS is "the front runner" in terms of his diagnosis. His grandmother died 30 years ago at 82 of what they were told was something "ALS-like". She was diagnosed in her late 70s. The...
I haven’t told anyone what I am going through at the moment. Not even my family. I don’t want to scare them. But I am terrified. I’ve had body wide muscle twitches for a few months but mainly in my legs and my legs would ache easily. In the last week I felt some pain in my neck and noticed I...
Hi everyone - I just joined today. Don't even know if I'm posting in the correct forum?
Anyway, we're in the UK. My brother was just diagnosed in late April/early May this year with MND. This has progressed really swiftly and he now uses a wheelchair.
He's been living at the other end of...
Hi, I'm Brook.
I didn't know where else to post this. I'm not really asking if I have ALS. I am introducing myself and venting my fears to a group of compassionate people. I read all the stickies and apologize in advance if I'm too verbose.
First off, I have been lurking on this site for...
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Hi all,
I just gave birth to my son two and a half months ago, and i have been told i have post partum depression, and i have been a little overly worried about dying lately. However, I feel that i have developed symptoms that point towards ALS and i am very scared.
Here are my symptoms...
Took a journey into the Cranberry wilderness area here in WV with two good friends. This place is one of the largest and most remote places on the east of Mississippi River.
We went in 7 mi on a gravel road and never saw another person all day. We all said we should have brought all our camping...
Hello I am 25 and lost my uncle to als last year he passed away at 50 years of age with als the same with his mother and his grandmother as well all with als. We have just found out it is in our family 100%.
I am now worried although i know it mostly strikes at an older age i am having trouble...
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Hello All,
I apologize up front for having to start a new thread as my previous one got locked due to inactivity. For those who followed my initial thread, I've been dealing with a variety of symptoms since at least late March 2017. I am a 41 year old male.
As a patient who uses the VA...
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