Recent content by Double A

For everyone reading this I know what your thinking, you want reassurance that everything is ok with you and that your not dying. I was/am one of those people. My story begins on February 2016 when I was having some numbness and tingling issues with my right foot/toes, saw a podiatrist who was...

shiftkicker , totally understand. I don't wanna be one of those ppl who are 19 yrs old with a eye twitch and normal EMG and think they have als. I'm not one of them, I do very much listen to the great ppl on here and heed theyre advice. I was simply asking about the saliva issues which I've...

hi again, I was happening to read some pictures here of symptoms of als from the forum. It mentioned excess saliva as one, funny I read that BC for over two plus months now thats exactly what I've been having and I'm having to constantly swallow my saliva or spit it in the trashcan or wherever I...

Ok awesome thank u for you're time you've given to me. It's greatly appreciated, have a great day.

No Kim I've never smoked a day in my life but I do work at an oil refinery and do inhale sometimes some pretty nasty toxic chemicals such as h2s, benzene, ammonia's, sulfur dioxide and coke dust. I just feel like I'm too young to have COPD and my pulmonologist Dr was so in and out that he didn't...

One last thing I forgot to mention is that a few months ago I started noticing shortness of breath while just walking and sometimes even when talking in a conversation. I thought hmm maybe im out of shape or something, so made an appt with a pulmonologist and did a PFT, it was abnormal also and...

God bless you Kim. Thank you so much for replying. And to all others suffering from this horrible disease.

Hi Nikki, the Dr just said I definitely do not show acute just chronic denervation w reeinnvation but with a abnormal ncs. And to just keep checking up every 6 months or so. I was afraid of posting my results bc I didn't wanna get chewed out or anything, it's just sometimes I feel the nueros...

Hello, I would've reffered to my last post but due to time it was closed so I'm back reporting my results from April 2018 from Houston Methodist. The NCS/ emg were basically the same as 6 months prior, emg still showing chronic denervation with partial reeinnvation and NCS showing 40% slowing...

affected, thank you for the reply. I will wait till April EMG appt, and go from they're. Thanks everyone for yalls time and god bless all of you.

thanks atsugi and lgelb for replying, I've sent my nuero an email about it recently but I haven't heard anything yet. I wldnt mind doing a pulmonary function test to see where I'm at on that. My next nuero visit is an EMG in April. Is shortness of breath w als typically an early symptom or late...

Hi Kim, so ur saying if my shortness of breath was caused by als it wldnt come and go and it would be constant, all day and night? Thanks.

hello I'm back with a couple of questions and I'll be out of you're hair. I have been having shortness of breath for over a month off and on, sometimes accompanied by chest pain but feels like I can't get enough air, it even happens when I'm asleep. Does shortness of breath w als come and go or...

Thanks Mike and lgelb and all who replied, y'all have been extremely helpful and I thank you with the bottom of my heart. I will leave forum for now, and talk to my Dr when I see him next in April. Also, here shortly I will be throwing in a donation. Thank you all for what you do. Goodbye.

Karen, wow that mustve been frightening to have one emg just show chronic denervation and a later one show acute and chronic denervation. I'm sorry to hear that happened to you. U said once it moves to another part of body it'll show active process, but what about if it's already affecting one...