azhiker
New member
- Joined
- Aug 4, 2016
- Messages
- 5
- Reason
- PALS
- Diagnosis
- 07/2016
- Country
- us
- State
- IA
- City
- Cedar Rapids
Could it be something else?
Diagnosis: Motor neuron disease, unspecified
Diagnosis: Other specified disorders of muscle
Diagnosis: Disease of spinal cord, unspecified
My 3rd EMG Report (each result worsening):
"EMG nerve conduction study was abnormal. It showed electrophysiologic evidence of a chronic neurogenic process in the right L5-S1 myotomes with ongoing denervation in distal L5 and S1 innervated muscles. These findings can be seen in low motor neuron diseases or in motor axonal diseases. The changes in the cervical and thoracic segments were subtle, and therefore the patient did not fulfill the revised El Escorial Diagnostic Criteria of Definite ALS. Therefore, we recommended a follow-up EMG in four to six months to determine progression of neurogenic changes."
In short, I have no wasting in my weak right leg. I can't run at all (a year ago I was running 5K and 10Ks) or walk very well, but I can still bike. I am wobbly though, due to some vertigo symptoms.
1st noticeable symptoms were a right foot drop during running and weakness.
My fasiculations are mostly in my legs, but I can sometimes feel them in my lower abdominal area and back (lying on my back in MRI machine, I can really feel them)
Diagnosis: Motor neuron disease, unspecified
Diagnosis: Other specified disorders of muscle
Diagnosis: Disease of spinal cord, unspecified
My 3rd EMG Report (each result worsening):
"EMG nerve conduction study was abnormal. It showed electrophysiologic evidence of a chronic neurogenic process in the right L5-S1 myotomes with ongoing denervation in distal L5 and S1 innervated muscles. These findings can be seen in low motor neuron diseases or in motor axonal diseases. The changes in the cervical and thoracic segments were subtle, and therefore the patient did not fulfill the revised El Escorial Diagnostic Criteria of Definite ALS. Therefore, we recommended a follow-up EMG in four to six months to determine progression of neurogenic changes."
In short, I have no wasting in my weak right leg. I can't run at all (a year ago I was running 5K and 10Ks) or walk very well, but I can still bike. I am wobbly though, due to some vertigo symptoms.
1st noticeable symptoms were a right foot drop during running and weakness.
My fasiculations are mostly in my legs, but I can sometimes feel them in my lower abdominal area and back (lying on my back in MRI machine, I can really feel them)