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    Symptoms and guidance please

    I'm 33 year old female, perfect health until now. Months ago, very occasionally I started feeling weakness in my left hand, not able to grip. I didn't pay much attention, until it got worse. My left hand is very weak now and unable to pick up anything heavy, also fingers move slowly. It's...
  2. W

    Symptoms? FALS

    Let me start by saying I really hope you all tell me it's all in my head. I've read the sticky thread but I'm still unsure, so please bear with me while I ask for experienced opinions. A little background. A couple years before I was born (I'm 34 now), my paternal Grandmother and uncle (her...
  3. S

    Fear of ALS due to widespread symptoms, I need your view in this.

    Hi everyone Yes, I have read the stickies and I appreciate them! But, I would like to explain my situation and get your views on it. So, my fear is ALS. I am a 30 year old male, I have aways been healthy expect for some allergy. Also, my mother tongue is Swedish so I hope my English is not...
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    6 months in. Symptoms progressing. Doctors perplexed

    Hi all. Brief recap: Sept 2017 - ring finger twitch/tremor starts Oct 2017 - spread to other fingers Nov 2017 - unremarkable EMG Dec 2017- tremor spreads to other hand Feb 2018 - repeat EMG unremarkable in hands and arms, but “irregular” in face and leg...yet somehow simultaneously...
  5. L

    Sign language ?

    I'm thinking about buying a book on signing .Jim can't talk at all. We could communicate this way. He still has full use of his hands , but typing everything slows him down , some day's he will just shake his head and give up.Ironically his texting skills are great.Would this just be one more...
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    Elderly Ladies

    Two elderly ladies were sitting on the front porch, doing nothing. One lady turns and asks, “Do you still get horny?” The other replies, “Oh sure I do”. The first old lady asks, “What do you do about it?” The second old lady replies, “I suck on a lifesaver.” After a few moments, the first...
  7. S

    Some help required

    Dear all I'm in a really tough spot and have been for about 3 months. Please can I run my symptoms by you to see if anyone can relate to my condition and progress. I have felt a bit off since the beginning of the year like a growing fatigue, but I put this down to having a 1 year old (now...
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    It's been a year and I'm not celebrating

    "There is no easy way of saying this but your EMG confirms~~You have ALS. I'm sorry." I wouldn't wish these words on my worse enemy. It's been a year since my PALS diagnosis and yet it feels at times as if it were yesterday. In less than a year we have gone from drop foot to using a trilogy...
  9. P

    Just been diagnosed by two ALS specialists

    I have just been diagnosed by two ALS specialists at OHSU and Providence. Am academic shrink not sure if that is helpful. Don't have any upper motor neuron signs (bilateral babinski, bilateral hoffman and jaw jerk WNL) and have normal reflexes except for brisk knee reflex which I have always...
  10. C

    Very afraid of beginning ALS

    Dear all on this forum, very worried 27 year old male from the Netherlands here. For the past six months I have been experiencing a lot of anxiety caused by my symptoms and what I have read about beginning ALS. Even after reading the stickies on this forum and an bunch of other threads, I am...
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