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I have the following: • Muscle wasting in legs, arms and small muscles of the hands. • Leg cramps. • No obvious ALS muscle twitches, but I understand this is not compulsory. • Very poor balance (would fail roadside sobriety test every time). Terrible balance in poor lighting. • Foot drop in...

Two reasons for wanting to know: 1. My wife is being driven nuts by not knowing. I can stick my head in the sand until September. 2. I would like to spend a little time and money that I may not going to need for retirement on a couple of bucket list items while still relatively mobile...

Thanks for the info. Only problem is that there has been no requisition for blood work. The AMG and NCS is the next step in September and he is not seeing me in the interim. Maybe he will order the bloodwork at that time. Bob

According to my neurologist I have neurological disease. I have had an MRI which ruled out MS but I need NCS and AMG testing before he can decide if it is ALS or something else unpleasant. The problem is that the wait time for testing is 7 months. I could go over the border to WA State but...