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Thank you rcharlton. I just saw your post. Dad's progression has been pretty fast this year. It started at the first of the year by having trouble raising his arms above his head. Now, he can barely raise them above waist level. He lives alone and manages. He still drives and feeds...

Loralie, yes, I don't recall getting twitches with my anxiety in the past....but maybe that is just it.....they were insignificant at the time, so I didn't even notice nor think about them. Maybe we have always twitched a little with anxiety and never noticed it. I hope your twitching gets...

My Dad was also diagnosed in June. June 17th, my daughter's first birthday. I have 3 kids and my sister lives 2 hours away and I'm 45 minutes away, so most of the caregiving falls on me. Everyone else is right. Take care of yourself and your baby first. Otherwise you will not be able to...

Thank you about the info from the guy at Vandy. This sounds exactly like my Dad...using one arm to help raise the other one. He has been dealing with this for 9 months and it is still confined completely to his arms. The first neuro in Jackson said he had only lower neuron findings, but this...

After seeing 3 neurologist that diagnosed my father with ALS. The third at the VA hospital thinks he has a variant called Flail Arm Syndrome due to clinical diagnosis and the absence of some typical ALS signs. We have 2 months before we see an actual ALS specialist at Vanderbilt. (4 month...

Thank you BLPhill and Ims9258. I checked out the "caregiver crazies." I am so glad to know that others experience this too. It makes sense really. Anxiety can cause twitching and dealing with a loved one with ALS causes Anxiety. It is vicious cycle. I haven't told my Dad how hard his...

I'm so glad to have found this post. I posted something similar and someone sent me here. I started having symptoms the moment my Dad was diagnosed with ALS in June. I twitch all over and now my thumb locks up and doesn't seem to work right all the time and twitches too. I'm 35 years old and...

Thanks. I'm going to a good Chiropractor friend tomorrow and see what she can do for it.

Hi Miss. I just got your message about the Memphis VA. Yes, I'd like to have private conversation about this with you on here, but I'm not sure how. I'm not even sure if I'm posting this right. :-)

I am a 35 year old female with 3 kids ages 1-6. My single 66 year old father was diagnosed with ALS in June 2011. He has had weakness since January 2011. So, of course, at the point of his diagnosis I read a lot about ALS and when I read about twitching as a symptom I realized that I too...