maka5
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- Jan 15, 2008
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- Friend was DX
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- hawaii
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- pearl city
Hi. I'm new to this site and looking for help for a friend of mine who was diagnosed with ALS 3/06. She is currently on a ventilator & is still able to turn her head a lttle, blink, and open her mouth for oral suctioning. But recently (within a 2-3 week span), we have noticed that she is unable to open her mouth as wide as she use to, which has been making it a little more difficult to brush her teeth and tricky to get the right angle to do oral suctioning. She and her mother(primary caregiver) are worried that if this continues, she may not be able to open her mouth therefore making it almost impossible to oral suction her(she has a lot of oral secretions at times). Has anyone else had this problem? Has anyone has there Dr.'s prescribe baclofen for this? Tracy