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    Evidence of Fungal Infection in ALS patients

    a friend of mine did send me this article Evidence for Fungal Infection in Cerebrospinal Fluid and Brain Tissue from Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Abstract of that article Among neurogenerative diseases, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal illness characterized by a...
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    Als clinic indianapolis

    Good afternoon, My name is Debbie and I live in Indianapolis, IN. I am writing today to get personal input as to what I need to expect next during the diagnosis process and anything you can recommend as I go to upcoming appointments. To give you some background information, I have been to my...
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    • Forum: Could this be ALS?
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    "Probable" ALS diagnosis (husband)

    I posted a few months ago regarding my husband and concerns for ALS ~ https://www.alsforums.com/forum/do-i-have-als-als/28271-concern-my-husband.html We had out 2nd visit with the neurologist at Virginia Mason in Seattle- MRI of head and spine, EMG, results of bloodwork, another physical exam...
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    New member

    Well, went to see Dr. Goslin at the Providence ALS clinic in Portland and she confirmed ALS. They're running about a dozen "hail mary" blood tests for things like Lupus, heavy metal poisoning, auto-immune issues and so on but at this point it seems to be pretty well confirmed. Unless one of...
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    Is this ALS

    I can't believe that I am posting here, I have been reading threads and worrying about ALS for months. I am a 33 year old female. In October 2014 I was experiencing extreme neck and shoulder pain, in addition to hand and arm pain that I thought was resulting from a writing intensive job. I was...
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    • Forum: Could this be ALS?
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    still looking for a little advice.

    Hi Forum Friends, I was tried to update to a previous thread I posted (https://www.alsforums.com/forum/do-i-have-als-als/26657-looking-advice-guidance-thank-you.html) but it is closed now. I thought I was making progress in getting a diagnosed but am back to hitting a wall or at least a...
    • koala82
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    • abdomen advice atrophy back bed diagnosed emg foot immune info mnd movement muscles neurology night problems progression symptoms test tests tongue twitching update weakness
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    • Forum: Could this be ALS?
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    32 and Scared

    Hi everyone, Ive been getting alot of symptoms for the past 4 months, started with a feeling of weakness and heaviness in my arms, then the twitching started, i went to see a doctor and he checked me for various things like Blood test to check for some auto immune disease and also Brain MRI...
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    • advice als back brain cost emg falling family foot heaviness immune insurance mri phlegm problem problems reading scared shoulder swallowing symptoms test tongue twitching voice wanted weakness wrong
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    • Forum: Could this be ALS?
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    Terrified and feel that i might have ALS

    Hey Everyone, So for the past 2 months i've been experiencing things that i have never encountered in my life, it started with my eye doctor telling me that a red eye problem that i had got twice during the course of 2 months might be due to an auto immune issue, it was from that point that...
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    • Forum: Could this be ALS?
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    Rainforest plants potential cure for ALS

    Ayahuasca – Ethnobotanical medicine for potential treatment of ALS By Daniel Gustafsson In south and central america, the native people within many tribes living along the amazon river has a long historical tradition of making and consuming a natural medicine/brew called ayahuasca. It is...
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    IVIG?-- ideas to help gasping, throat spams

    Hello everyone-- Wife was diagnosed Sept 2013 with bulbar onset then that called off when they found lymphoma. She had 5 chemo but bulbar symptoms progressed so now they do not think the lymphoma was cause of neuro issues and stopped chemo. New doctorc wants to try IVIG because of sarcoid...
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