FF28
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- Joined
- Jan 8, 2013
- Messages
- 2
- Reason
- Learn about ALS
- Country
- US
- State
- Nevada
- City
- Reno
Hi, I'm a heathy 28yo male. I'm a firefighter/paramedic with a wife and 2 kids. Here are my symptoms for over a year:
-Muscle twitching all over including the tongue
-Feet, Calf and hand sorness and cramping
-Knee weakness & Giving out
-Difficulty swallowing (no choking but food sometimes get caught)
-Abnormal (feel like I'm not breathing deep enough so I sigh a lot)
-Slurred speech
-Last month I developed hyperreflexia (knees)
-Last month I had a bout of acending numbness that went from both feet to my knees over 5 days. Also around the 5 day mark I had patchy numbness throughout my upper body and head. Over the next 5 days it went away the same way it came on. This has been the only occurance of this type of feeling.
This prompted me to see a doctor and on evaluation I could not feel my left foot but I could feel most everything else with a decreased sense. Also hyperreflexia in both knees. Passed all other tests.
-EMG Normal
-MRI Normal
-Strength is normal (feels more like muscle fatigue)
-Overly sore outter thumb muscle for no reason
Neurologist says I have a LMN problem but I'm showing no signs of a UMN problem. I'm getting a CT and an echocardiogram done in a few days. Does anyone have any advise or similar experiance they could share?
-Muscle twitching all over including the tongue
-Feet, Calf and hand sorness and cramping
-Knee weakness & Giving out
-Difficulty swallowing (no choking but food sometimes get caught)
-Abnormal (feel like I'm not breathing deep enough so I sigh a lot)
-Slurred speech
-Last month I developed hyperreflexia (knees)
-Last month I had a bout of acending numbness that went from both feet to my knees over 5 days. Also around the 5 day mark I had patchy numbness throughout my upper body and head. Over the next 5 days it went away the same way it came on. This has been the only occurance of this type of feeling.
This prompted me to see a doctor and on evaluation I could not feel my left foot but I could feel most everything else with a decreased sense. Also hyperreflexia in both knees. Passed all other tests.
-EMG Normal
-MRI Normal
-Strength is normal (feels more like muscle fatigue)
-Overly sore outter thumb muscle for no reason
Neurologist says I have a LMN problem but I'm showing no signs of a UMN problem. I'm getting a CT and an echocardiogram done in a few days. Does anyone have any advise or similar experiance they could share?