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    Dr. says it's likely to be PLS. Will MRI and EMG help?

    Hi Karen, Sorry, I didn't mean that my thought process caused such reactions. I'm really struggling symptom-wise and it probably shows in my words and thought process. These messages took me many hours to type as my hands and fingers are incredibly stiff. But I confess I thought this...
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    Dr. says it's likely to be PLS. Will MRI and EMG help?

    Hi everyone, It's with extreme sadness about my life, and the circumstances around which I am led to today, that I just had the realization that I must have in fact PLS. While reviewing medical literature on the differential diagnosis of ALS/PLS, I realized that once the differential process...
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    Dr. says it's likely to be PLS. Will MRI and EMG help?

    Hi again good friends, (Never said enough times, I would like to deeply thank you for sharing your collective knowledge and individual experiences. This forum is a true reference and world lighthouse for MND information, specially for someone like me in a small country like Portugal where no...
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    Dr. says it's likely to be PLS. Will MRI and EMG help?

    Hi again everyone, I have performed the EMG (with Nerve Conduction Test included) and here's the follow up: I was inside the doctor's office for a total of 5 minutes and 30 seconds (made an audio recording of it) and during that time was asked by the doctor to lie down on a stretcher with my...
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    Dr. says it's likely to be PLS. Will MRI and EMG help?

    Thank you for your replies. I will proceed with the exams. Am writing this from the waiting room of the MRI center in Coimbra/Portugal. This time with a 3 Tesla machine upon doctor request of investigation of "pyramidal tracts" and will try to have the EMG next week on Friday. I would like to...
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    Dr. says it's likely to be PLS. Will MRI and EMG help?

    Hi everyone, This is my second time posting. First time I had not been checked by a neuromuscular illness doctor yet. Meanwhile I got checked and this doctor identified the following symptoms with 1 year progression since onset: ✓ Generalized Hyperreflexia ✓ Generalized stiffness in 4 limbs ✓...
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    I guess this is for real

    Hi Kristina, I am extremely sorry for how my words made you feel. I was aware I could eventually sound offensive to the ones dealing with the disease but I still dared to post it willing to (in case someone recognized the logic process I attempted to explain) eventually advance the completeness...
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    I guess this is for real

    P.S. Differential diagnosis mentioned above
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