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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
✓...
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...