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When you have slurred speach, what does it feel like? Do you get any type of "funny" feeling in your throat or jaw such as tightness? Do you get any type of "funny" feeling with your tongue? Is there any type of warning signs? The reason I ask: I'm having a tight feeling right at my Adam's...

I'm sure we have all read about weakness and atrophy with ALS and regretfully people are living with both. I searched on here and there were a lot of threads but nothing that really answered these next two questions: My first question: when it comes to weakness, is a sudden 10% decrease in...

I have searched this topic on here (and the internet) and I still don't really understand what spasticity is. I think the reason is that when the topic has come up, the replies have been "medical definitions" of spasticity. Knowing that it happens with ALS, is there anyone here that can tell me...

Is upper motor neuron weakness as insidious as lower motor weakness? Is there any type of "feeling" from upper motor weakness? Does weakness from upper motor neuron death take one section of a limb at a time just like weakness from lower motor neuron death?

Hello again eveyone A quick question: can your entire arm be affected in a matter of a couple of months? I was perfectly healthy (very aware of my body prior to all of this happening just a couple of months ago) and had absolutely NO symptoms. I am 100% sure of that. In a very short time...

Has anyone had weakness in their leg (early in the course of developing ALS) that moves from region to region. Sometimes my quadriceps feel weak . . . other times my hamstrings . . . other times my gluteals . . . other times my calves . . . other times my feet . . . and other times my whole...

I know there are variants to motor neuron diseases: for example, PLS (only upper motor neurons involved), PMA (only lower motor neurons involved) and ALS (both upper and lower motor neurons involved) If you trully have ALS, do the upper and lower motor signs usually happen at the same time . ...

Hello everyone I have had these symptoms long enough and now I need to share them. I have my fears that I have something really bad. I am a 40 year old male. This all started about 3 months ago. I had unexplained MILD weakness in my arm (shoulder, bicep, forearm). A month later I developed...