Recent content by ptich

I was told by a neuro that NCV (you meant NCV - Nerve Conduction Velocity, not NVC ?) is to rule out other conditions. With ALS, NCV would be normal, or almost normal.

This discussion is in the wrong forum, it should've been "Do I have ALS ?" May be I clicked on a wrong link when I was creating this forum. Thanks JennB329 for your answer. Was your dad's first EMG done by an ALS specialist ?

I know that, in some rare cases, folks here had their first EMG normal, but later were diagnoseded with a MND/ALS. In these cases, the first EMG was apparently done by a local neuro, not by an MND specialist. Are the following statements correct: 1. Nobody here has been diagnoseded with an MND...

Hey, Robert, it's not fair, the whole forum is holding its breath... :-) Hope (and pretty sure that) things turned out to be good.

In my opinion, do not tell him anything. You will make him anxious, and anxiety multiplies ALS symptoms manyfolds, or even create them from scratch if there were none. Whether he has ALS or not, the only thing you will achieve is to create a stress for him. The diagnosed, either way, may take...

I think it is actually pointing away from ALS, towards cervical spondylosis or MS.

Finger tapping rate revisited Just wanted to update on the finger tapping issue. My dominant hand is now, on average, 21% faster that the non-dominant. This is a very large difference, and it grew somewhat over the last 2 years. But all other UMN symptoms I had had regressed, pretty much...

No, I just found it when I was getting copies of my medical records for the last few years.

Well, my question was: in the last 4.5 years I had an attack of various UMN symptoms that seemed to peak in 2006-2007, accompanied by mild LMN symptoms most of which are still there. Could taking Prosac in 2003 for a few weeks, and then quitting, be a cause ? I doubt it, but wanted to hear...

As I found in my medical records, I was prescribed Prozac for mild depression in April 2003. I remember that I was taking it for a few weeks, and then stopped as it did not seem to help. I think it was approximately end of 2003 or 2004 when I felt that my left arm was weird and clumsy. I had...

EMG is usually done by the doctor himself, and he knows the results right away, there is no need for postprocessing. But he sometimes tells the patient only after an official report is written, which may take a couple of weeks. Also some equipment makes noise when there is electrical activity...

In November-December 2006, when my UMN symptoms flared up, I was losing balance completely several times and had to hold on a table or anything near me. This was going for no more than a second, kind of like a blackout. This seemed to coincide with my "cannot initiate swallowing" symptom, which...

As far as I understand, FLAIR is an MRI technique to discover those brain lesions that happen to be located close to the liquid surrounding the brain, with higher sensitivity than a normal MRI. So the question should be - what a couple of brain lesions mean ? Apparently, it is very...

isle667, pain can point neither "to" nor "away" from ALS. If you have symptoms that are more specific to ALS (objective weakness, atrophy, limb "lazyness", slurring, fasciculations, etc) then go to a neuro. Otherwise, why are you even thinking about ALS ? A few folks on this forum reported...

> stress isn't good when it comes to anything, > so minimizing it is certainly always beneficial. Isn't the same true for a head injury ? :D What I am trying to say is that there is really not that much proven scientific knowledge here, and one have to rely on anecdotal evidence to get some...