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EMG normal Hello, EMG has been completed and is normal. This is extremely good news, and obviously makes the diagnosis of ALS/MND non-viable (more or less). So I will not be returning to these forums, for which I thank G-d, and I wish each of you only the best. Thank you, (For those who are...

Hello, I haven't updated because the EMG got delayed. I saw a second neurologist for a second opinion and he agrees we should do an EMG so that is pending. He does not have a neurologic diagnosis; feels MND is unlikely but cannot rule it out absolutely and besides, other diseases in the...

sorry, that should say, "MRI neck and brain normal" I am a board certified psychiatrist who specializes in behavioral disturbances of neuropsychiatric disease.

Arguing against anything localized like tumor, cyst, brachial nerve injury is that I have symptoms in 4 extremities. They are worst in R arm; less so in L arm; and mostly non-specific in legs (falling asleep, some muscle cramping). So hard to imagine something affecting 4 extremities unless in...

I am not a neurologist and ALS/MND is far from my area of specialty. Thank you for your response. I was not aware neurologists were such a skeptical bunch but maybe that is true of all of us, especially with rare diseases. Since this is not my expertise I've had to piece together a knowledge...

What do fasciculations feel like? Please describe your fasciculations: 1. Can you see them? What do they look like? 2. Can you feel them? What do they feel like? 3. Could you perceive fasciculations before fibrillations were detected on EMG? 4. Can you describe the chronology of your...

40 year old male physician, previously healthy In February 2014, sudden onset over 48 hours of widespread sensation that limbs are falling asleep, which is positionally worse. Within 1-2 weeks, increasing weakness in R hand, then L hand. Buttoning, typing, writing, cooking. Over next month...