Hey. I'm here with the same question as everyone else. Except this is about my sister. She is 29.
Last year she was diagnosed with compartment syndrome in her leg. She had some buckling and pain. Never fell, but had to give up running because of weakness.
Within the past 6 months she also began to have trouble with one arm. She has some pain and weakness, with a noticably weakened grip. She also has shoulder subluxation. THe weakness in her hand and arm seems to come and go, getting worse with more use.
She has been to all kinds of docs and is currently seeing a physical therapist who believes she may have damage to the nerves in her arm. They don't seem to be relating the leg weakness to the arm weakness which surprises me.
She has no reports of twitching which I realize from this forum is pretty common with ALS.
I guess I'm wondering if ALS can begin unilaterally and without twitching?
I haven't told her to look into ALS as a possibility and wonder if I should?
Thanks so much.
JH
Last year she was diagnosed with compartment syndrome in her leg. She had some buckling and pain. Never fell, but had to give up running because of weakness.
Within the past 6 months she also began to have trouble with one arm. She has some pain and weakness, with a noticably weakened grip. She also has shoulder subluxation. THe weakness in her hand and arm seems to come and go, getting worse with more use.
She has been to all kinds of docs and is currently seeing a physical therapist who believes she may have damage to the nerves in her arm. They don't seem to be relating the leg weakness to the arm weakness which surprises me.
She has no reports of twitching which I realize from this forum is pretty common with ALS.
I guess I'm wondering if ALS can begin unilaterally and without twitching?
I haven't told her to look into ALS as a possibility and wonder if I should?
Thanks so much.
JH