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    throat

    Anyone else out there experience this? The past couple of days, the entire day and night, my throat feels a pressure- not an ache, but a very much uncomfortable feeling. It is especially uncomfortable to sleep. It feels like it's in the throat muscles.
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    Holidays

    I just need to know if anyone out there understands how I'm feeling or can just share some insight... Thanksgiving Day was good, but right after the meal was through, even before I got up from the table, I started crying. I do suffer from the emotional liability part of ALS, but this was just...
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    aspiration danger?

    I had food get stuck at lunch today and it's still there over 8 hours later. I simply wasn't hungry at supper time, but drank some tea, trying anything to get this food to go down. What is the danger and reality of this staying there? I try coughing, and I can get it up to the throat but not...
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    When family comes, then leaves

    I don't know how to handle this... my Mama has been here visiting me the past 3 weeks. We live about 1,500 miles from each other and see each other about once a year. The time with her has been wonderful. This was the first time we have seen each other since my diagnosis and now the time is...
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    feeling like a brick in my stomach

    Does anyone else experience this? : When I eat anything, absolutely anything, I begin feeling as if there is a brick in my stomach and I gag. I almost always get choked once on something during the meal. I have given up so much food already- should I think this means the beginning of...
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    food is stuck every meal! Now what?!

    I've tried the tucking my chin while eating, but now as of three days ago, every meal, finds me coughing from food being stuck. Is it time for me to go to pureed foods or liquids?!
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    How not to panic?

    As of this morning, my legs are feeling like jello while sitting, and like a brick to move when I get up. I can't do it without significant help. I am panicking at this new thing that's happening. I am scared. I admit it. I have been crying out to God, who I know is my help, but I am...
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    Sign of things to come?

    Before I lost the use of my left thumb, I noticed a bit of achiness there, then one day, it no longer worked. One of my fingers on the right hand has recently become achy and barely usable. My left arm aches terribly bad, so heavy to move, harder and harder to use. Is this a sign that it's...
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    aspiration question

    I posted a few days ago about swallowing trouble but for the past three days or so I have been experiencing something new. Is this aspiration? The best way I can describe it is I eat, it gets stuck, and feels like it's gone down completely wrong. I'm coughing, coughing, coughing, but it is...
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    swallowing?

    Hi! I have a question as a just diagnosed in June PALS. Today I noticed that every time I eat, the best way I can describe it, is as if my mouth (mostly the bottom- jaw I guess) is being screwed in. Like it's being tightened... is this normal for als?! It took me an hour to eat a simple ham...
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