Just as an update:
The fasiculations have now spread to my shoulders (particularly right). After I've had fasiculations in the area the area feels weaker and somehow looser(?)
The fine control of my hands (e.g. moving my mouse to check a checkbox) is tricky.
I get my parnter to check for 'clinical' weakness and we can't detect any.
But my arms do feal like lead, as do my legs.
I do stumble quite often because my right foot doesn't always pick itself up very well, but I still can resist pushing down on my foot. I'm more unstable balance wise - but again not fallen over yet.
What all this doesn't say is what I can feel - the muscles are changing as/after they're fasiculating. I am still swallowing only thin liquids, which was the first sympom. I can still talk ok and tongue is ok but occassionally fasiculates.
Can als start in the throat, stop, then jump to the lower legs and spread from there?
On my last visit to the neurologist he said he was confident it wasn't motor neurone disease. I wish I was.
The fasiculations have now spread to my shoulders (particularly right). After I've had fasiculations in the area the area feels weaker and somehow looser(?)
The fine control of my hands (e.g. moving my mouse to check a checkbox) is tricky.
I get my parnter to check for 'clinical' weakness and we can't detect any.
But my arms do feal like lead, as do my legs.
I do stumble quite often because my right foot doesn't always pick itself up very well, but I still can resist pushing down on my foot. I'm more unstable balance wise - but again not fallen over yet.
What all this doesn't say is what I can feel - the muscles are changing as/after they're fasiculating. I am still swallowing only thin liquids, which was the first sympom. I can still talk ok and tongue is ok but occassionally fasiculates.
Can als start in the throat, stop, then jump to the lower legs and spread from there?
On my last visit to the neurologist he said he was confident it wasn't motor neurone disease. I wish I was.