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I wonder if some day, docs will find a way to diagnose ALS way before symptoms become obvious... As far as I a concerned, my real problems started three and a half years ago, but thinking about it, I can date back my first symptoms to more than ten years ago, when I started having what I though...

Hi everyone, I'm Luke, a 32-year-old guy from Portland Oregon. After spending several weeks reading posts at this wonderful forum, I've decided I would like to join. I'm in the process of getting a diagnosis of health symptoms I've been experiencing, and in the meantime, I think it would be...

This is for pals and not caregivers. A bipap has been recommended plus my medical team urges me to eat healthy to keep up my strength. It seems that these do nothing but delay the inevitable. Why would anyone want to fight until the end when the end will probably be complete helplessness before...

Hello, I am new here and hope someone here can help. My mother has ALS since July. She has slowly lost her ability to speak over the past month. At the same time she can't seem to keep anything down and has started vomiting after eating. She was scheduled to go to the Mayo Clinic during an...

I think the most difficult thing to deal with, with my mom having als, is the way my dad treats her. She says he hasn't shown any kind of affection towards her--no kiss--since she got sick two years ago. She feels like he has broken his marriage vows--"in sickness or in health". He constantly...

Since my Dad's diagnosis earlier this week, I have spent hours on the internet. There is so much information and so many new medical terms to learn. My Dad is 78, which seems much older than most of the cases I've been reading about. I'm interested in learning about others' experience with...

Tomorrow will be 24 weeks since Bob passed away and I miss him more and more each day. I found this online today, on a site called griefsjourney. com and thought I'd share it with those who have lost their loved ones. Grief Is.. Grief is more than just a constellation of feelings in...

We had a appointment this morning with a gastro. for Dean to discuss getting the peg tube. He agreed to it last week. He has ate very little since 1 Jan. This morning he says, "I want some scrambled egg". I make him a scrambled egg and he eats it all. Then he says "there is no need for the...

Well another night of broken sleep.Only to wake up to this monster ALS! I wonder how I'm going to make some sort of life out of what I have left, I'm so depressed! I know live in the moment!.Sitting around the house is such an adjustment for me, never was much of a reader. I need to be...

I am a 24 year old female who has been having muscle weakness, cramping, and twitches for four months. I went to the neurologist and he did an EMG and a nerve conduction study and said that my neurons are "firing too fast." What does this mean? He never told me. In addition, how long does ALS...