Hello Pat, our husbands were diagnosed at the same time. My husband's ALS is most lower motor neurone affected, which means that he has lost the use of all his limbs, but has no problems with speech, or swallowing. His ALS is pretty atypical, so the doctors are a bit stumped by him, and how to manage his disease process. We had a big surprise when we found out that his breathing would be compromised because of the denervation of his diaphragm and not because he had bulbar involvement.
Paulette