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    Veteran disability benefits for those with PLS diagnosis.

    For those veterans diagnosed with PLS (vs ALS) below is link to a recent appeal where a Veteran, who had previously been turned down for benefits based on a diagnosis of PLS (vs ALS), was awarded disability benefits for a PLS diagnosis. In the past, Vets have been turned down for the ALS...
  2. pdcraig

    I didn't know what I didn't know

    I've been catching up today and in the roll call was introduced to Slippery Sally All I can say is "God d****t". How is it I have never heard of this? Thank you Tillie BTW. Even 4 1/2 years into this, there is still the seemingly never ending, "I didn't know that." It got me thinking of all...
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    Hello from Edmonton

    Good day everyone, I have joined the ALS society because well it is a cause that is near and dear to my heart. In grade 8 I wrote a paper on woman who asked for the right to die with dignity as this extremely painful degenerative disease took her life. Her story impacted me on so many levels...
  4. J

    Where we are and Questions

    Hello all, This is my first post, but I have been lurking for a while, soaking up all the information I can process. Let me tell you, I have learned more on this forum than all other venues available, and I thank you all. My husband started with foot drop in 2011, then fasciculations and...
  5. A

    trying to keep the breathing muscles

    I’ m here with you, for my precious mother, who is 69 years old; she was diagnosed with Als in September 2016. Until then, she was a very very active person. All those months we have made great efforts to slow down the disease, but it did not work. Her symptoms started in April 2016, in...
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    Our Terrible Story

    My wife has Bulbar ALS, diagnosed since Oct. 2016. Some background prior to her diagnosis is necessary to get context: My wife, myself, and our now 19 yo daughter moved from RI to FL to care for my 91 year old Dad in July 2013. We moved in with him. He was very demanding and...
  7. DaChief

    VA Disability Approved

    Just notified that my application was approved. They also approved the automobile grant and Special Adaptive Housing. I submitted the paperwork through the PVA in Tampa thanks to info in this forum. From start to approval only took 5 weeks and included the last week in Dec over the holidays...
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    (DBQ) Disability Benifits Questionare

    I have PVA as my rep and they also want a DBQ to file claim even though my VA medical records under active problems they have ALS and the VA Doctors from Nuerology and Pulminary refused to sign one. I have been to a Neuro outside VA and they even refused as well as just agreed with VA. My...
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    PLS Dominant ALS

    In September 2016 I had issues the 1st week speaking so my primary VA Doctor prescribed a week long medication for laryngitis and after taking it, nothing changed. By the end of the 1st week of October 2016 I was unable to speak, yet ENT Doctors at VA said my voice box was okay from test and...
  10. R

    Symptoms over 2 months

    Hey folks, I should preface everything by saying that I have severe health anxiety and am on disability for anxiety, OCD and depression. That being said, does the following sound symptomatic of ALS?: Two months ago, I started having minor tingling in both my hands and some numbness. I ended...
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