My husband has always been the most mild mannered person in the world. We use to say that if a building was on fire he would calmly say "the building is burning it might be good to move on out". Almost never short tempered.
We had our first ALS clinic visit and while thought it was great he...
Went to Duke and we actually feel a little better now.
When the doctor did the exam he found a few things that we hadn't even noticed. The right side of my husband's chest was sunk in - we knew there were other areas that had lost muscle but didn't see that on his chest so it shocked us...
I just feel so lost. My husband had his second nerve conduction study yesterday. The last one was a year ago and was abnormal. Please give me any other DX it could be. Here is the progression of whatever it is he has:
I am writing these in the order that I think they happened. And about...
I posted once before back in May. My husband had a lot of symptoms but the doctor wasn't willing to discuss the possibility of ALS. Life happened and my son broke his hand and had to have surgery and physical therapy so my husband's problems were pushed to the back of our mind. He actually...
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Hi All, I am new to the board but have been reading a lot. My husband is 44 and in November while out running his leg just quit working. He literally had to drag his leg to get home.
Since that time he has had what is called drop foot. He has been going to the doctors for months and has had...