ALS and toxins?

[linken]

My former partner, now 35 years old developed als about 2 years ago.We separated in year 2000. This summer i started to get fasciculations all over my body, and they seem to get worse. I dont have any weekness but are stiff in the morning especially in one hand, and feel clumsy in the same hand.After christmas i also got cramps under my feet and in the jaw. About the same time i got the fasciculations i have been so tired, not fysically but mentally. Sometimes I have to lie down because I get so mentally fatigued.Is this mentally tiredness normal in als? I`m starting to think I have als too, and I know my sympthomes are not psychic. I did not know fasciculations was a symptom of als until I started getting them. I hav read about other couples who has got als, and I am wondering if we have been intoxicated. Is there anything I can do to check this out?

[upila]

Hello,

Hope no one here is annoyed at my bringing up this subject rather often - I do it only as a subject of consideration, amongst all other possible paths we are testing, trying and exploring in our search for way out of this dreadful situation:

There is a wide speculation that Lyme bacteria can be transmitted though body fluids - accounting for the multiple cases where entire families have tested positive for the bacteria. Usually, if one partner tests positive, then more and more likely - the other partner would test positive as well.

Reading your description of symptoms - they are so closely corresponding to Lyme infection, that it may be (just may be) worth while to explore that possibility also.

[Al]

From what I have been told there are only about 10 cases ever reported of couples getting ALS. I think you'd have a better chance at winning the lottery. Mentally ALS patients are supposed to not be affected. I have noticed some short term memory loss but from what I understand that happens to most p[eople in their mid 50's. Just a part of getting older I guess. In your case I would recommend a trip to a good Neurologist. Good luck.
Al

[John1]

Linken, your chances of developing ALS are completely unrelated to the fact that your partner did. You have the same chance as anyone else in the population, about 1 in 450. Your symptoms are compatible with a diagnosis of ALS but also with many other more common disorders as well. Al gives good advice, see a neurologist. You will have to first see your family doctor to get a referral, preferably to one that specializes in ALS.