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I'm reading through the drug trials, and I'm wondering, can our loved ones, with both ALS and FTD ever get into any of them? Are we considered so different, so hopeless, that we should just go home and wait for the journey to run it's course? I don't mean to sound macabre, it's just how I'm...

I'm not even sure if this is the right place to put this thread but I am just soo frustrated right now, I need to just vent! Just to give you a little background: I'm 23 & my father was diagnosed with ALS last month but has had it for about or almost a year. (It was something we suspected but...

part1 Upper Motor Neuron Damage (UMN) Historically, this has been associated with the corticospinal (pyramidal) tract. However, this is not quite accurate since voluntary motor pathways arising in the cerebral cortex can function by activating more primitive descending tracts from the brain...

Helluva birthday gift I'll probably get next week. My neurologist is doing leg emg on me Wed. I believe from what he's said & my progressing arm weakness/atrophy/functional loss & leg/foot gait problems this will just confirm the monster has invaded. My 59th BD is Thur. Helluva gift. Being...

MRI research demonstrates ALS attacks multiple parts of the brain Public release date: 16-Sep-2011 More than just movement affected by ALS Recently published studies by a researcher in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry demonstrate that ALS – known as Lou Gehrig's disease – damages neurons...

How to handle? If I have ALS which is looking likely I doubt I could function through the winter in my house. What personal care homes handle ALS? That will also fast use up my retirement funds. And cleaning out my house 50+ years of stuff. Martha Stewart doesn't live here is on the frig...

And I'm wondering hoping he is missing something in cervical region. I am going to consult a neurosurgeon. Neurologist is ALS specialist. Background: Nov 2010 had dizziness & equilibrium problems. Felt foggy. PCP does a hurry up diagnosis of BPPV. Prescribes anti-nauseas med. Did notice sore...

I have had footdrop in left foot for about a year now...and footdrop in rt. foot since a couple months ago. I have noticied that left foot was getting harder to lift ..this week I find it no longer lifts..nor my leg. I had to literally pick up my leg to get it in the car this morning. :roll...

i just have to vent, there is no where else really i can vent. I know there are many on here without and with a diagnosis of ALS/MND or something along these lines, or have been in my shoes. I have been trying to be soo positive and stay so strong, but it always gets me down i do tell my hubbie...

Hello! My father was diagnosed with ALS on June 16, 2011. Onset of symptoms for him began in his right hand in mid-January and have progressed relatively rapidly it seems to me. He is still able to walk, but is just barely shuffling his feet. He's had significant atrophy in the backs of his...