sprybrry
New member
- Joined
- Jun 14, 2012
- Messages
- 4
- Reason
- PALS
- Diagnosis
- 07/2012
- Country
- US
- State
- ga
- City
- marietta
I've been diagnosed with als.
My first symptoms (cramping,sore calf muscles and balance)started about a year ago.
I am still walking though not very good but i can do chores to help my wife around the house.
My question is about bladder control and pain.
I can't go all night without getting up to go.
When I'm awake I have to go every hour or two.
It seems like every time I get up from my chair I have to run to the bathroom.
Sometimes I have pain in my joints while I am walking and my cramps are painful,but more often I get stabbing pain in my heels, ball of my foot ,calf muscle ,ribs,even my head.
this pain will happen while I'm at rest and will be intense but will only last a second or two.
Also,I get daily headaches now, I never got them before.
Is this normal with als?
And thanks for the kind responses to my post last year.
My first symptoms (cramping,sore calf muscles and balance)started about a year ago.
I am still walking though not very good but i can do chores to help my wife around the house.
My question is about bladder control and pain.
I can't go all night without getting up to go.
When I'm awake I have to go every hour or two.
It seems like every time I get up from my chair I have to run to the bathroom.
Sometimes I have pain in my joints while I am walking and my cramps are painful,but more often I get stabbing pain in my heels, ball of my foot ,calf muscle ,ribs,even my head.
this pain will happen while I'm at rest and will be intense but will only last a second or two.
Also,I get daily headaches now, I never got them before.
Is this normal with als?
And thanks for the kind responses to my post last year.