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- Nov 24, 2011
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- PALS
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- CA
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- Québec
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- Montreal
I wonder if some day, docs will find a way to diagnose ALS way before symptoms become obvious... As far as I a concerned, my real problems started three and a half years ago, but thinking about it, I can date back my first symptoms to more than ten years ago, when I started having what I though were stomach cramps, and started feeling tired quickly (I was only 21)... I also had off an on tingling and burning sensations and difficiulty breathing that were attributed to anxiety so docs prescribed antidpressants and that was it... So when i started complaining about spasticity and very painful cramps, they again thought I was depressed and that was it... it took serious weakness and atrophy to be considered diffrently... Anyway, i just wonder if you had a similar eperience and maybe ALS is a long chrnic disease, it doesn't kill within 5 years but maybe within 15 (10 being undiagnosed...)