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Trevor

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I have an indent on left side of my tongue that is visable. My voice is hoarse and throat is dry but I can swallow and chew with no issues. Besides my fingers being sore every morning and my shoulders hurt, plus head pressure I still am able to function some what. I go see a neuro in March but am concerned. My last emg in August 2009 was normal with fasclulations on legs and arms. Is it normal to have an indent on one side on your tongue. I guess with everything going on with my body I'm a little concerned plus the muscle shaking when I stretched in the morning. Any comments on my concerns.
 
My tongue is full of indents. As long as you can speak and swallow normally there is really nothing to worry about. You had a clean emg.
 
Yes, it is normal to have an indent on one side of your tongue. Indentations on the tongue from the teeth are very common and meaningless. People's tongues are different sizes, and some people's teeth rest against the edge of the tongue and some people's teeth don't.

You list a grab bag of symptoms, none of which really relate to ALS. An ALS patient would not present with bulbar (head) symptoms at the same time as limb symptoms. As Danijela said, if your tongue were affected by ALS in any way, your speech would show it.

Sore fingers, shoulders and headaches (pressure?) are not symptoms of ALS. Your EMG four months ago was normal.

If your concerns continue, I would suggest talking to a regular doctor about your anxiety.
 
Thank you for your replies. Is numbness in the hand and feet a symptom
 
Not of ALS. Could be a number of other things.

Usually the first symptom of ALS is muscle weakness, where you can't do something you normally do, like pick up a backpack you could pick up the day before. Pain, numbness, twitching, tremors (shaking), etc. are not characteristic of ALS onset.

Try to forget about it (I know it's really hard) until your next neuro visit. The clean EMG is reassuring. Let us know how your next visit goes. I hope your neuro gets to the bottom of it all.

Good luck.
 
I first had frozen shoulders with weakness followed by muscle atrophy. (nothing to do with any kind of MND...?)

Some time later, I developed spasticity in the legs - could hardly do any kind of knee bending to pick things up off the floor. This is typical onset for those with PLS. Fasciculations and cramping in the legs came next followed by some weakness.

Add some bilateral babinksi, hyper reflexes and bam! It's me!

My tongue is fine and I still refuse to inspect it for any abnormalities. My pinky finger would also like to report its doing well, too! I don't have as much hair but that may be due to just getting it cut for the holidays.

If I see Santa, I think I'll hit him over the head and blame it on EL.

Kim

Humbug!
 
Hello friends I have had alot of dental work done in last month from root canal temp crown perm crown and deep clean through all this process I have been OCD about oral c major OCD kinda if hypercondriac it all started when I noticed small bumps on pack of tounge Wichita my ent identified as circumvallate papile tast buds way back then I just seem to jump the gun thin the worst general dentist did c screen and found nothing had ent scope throat and c test oral found nothing so that brought relief I quit smoke cigs during this whole time Wichita brings alot of nerves and anxiety throat hurt went back to ent again got another scope done and looked in mouth again ent said I'm nuts nothing wrong mouth is normal then started obsecing about hard pallet in mourh thought I had Tory which is a boney growth on roof of mouth so I freaked out and scheduled a apt with a oral surgeon slash dds does everything I had a test done call bell scope cancer screen came back clean and healthy
Which brings me to this dent thing I am so compliance I am always checking for spot weird things so a day later I notices this very small like dent thing no lesion no bleeding no ulcer just a weird dip but so small I started freaking out so I called malfox surgeon back for appt tons what it was when I came in he said what's wrong he said there no way its cancer we just tested all tissues with velscope and you healthy he thinks I'm nuts so he said if I want incould com back in eve to specialist who does biopsy and he could look but there nothing to biopsy so SSS did a quick look at dent laughed and said you prob bit you tounge and said aerioslu relax Shawn your healed there no cancer in your oral area he is very nice by not charging me 150 and said live your life it's seem indent is getting smaller but ever since I going threw this my nerves have bm threw roof I can't relax tounge so in sure it's rubbing against teeth and not even no it all clench and grind alot so I say it indentation cause I seen ent 2 time found nothin and seeen dentist nothing and also seen specialist and had velscope done nothing all comes back healthy healthy I say just they all agree I'm a hypocondriac but I tell I have big problem self diagnosing my self with google I just never would want to go out by the big c horrible diseases so I'm smoke free 3 weeks sonar but just harrowing dry mouth Dom quitting I'm sure and quit caffeine so my guess in nuts and cancer free from head up at Least
 
Shawn, go away, your symptoms have absolutely nothing to do with ALS. I have no idea why you would post this here.

AL.
 
Shawn, go away, your symptoms have absolutely nothing to do with ALS. I have no idea why you would post this here.

AL.

^^^Ditto^^^and learn how to write.
 
Talk to a Doctor and try to quit obsessing.
 
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