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Hi everyone - I am seeing my primary care doctor tomorrow but wanted to get your opinion on my situation seeing as you have so much experience in this area. My uncle passed away in Spring 2017 from ALS (he was late 60s) and my dad was just diagnosed with ALS (he is 74). I'm considering getting...

Hello everyone! My name is Tanya, I'm 26 years old. A month ago, my finger of the hand have started to twitch for three days, and then all over the body (but more often the feet). Today since morning when I was stretching in bed I had a cramp in the calf of the foot and it was scared me. Can you...

Veterans with ALS need to know that in order to get their special monthly compensation (SMC) increased as their condition worsens they will need to get a Disability Benefits Questionnaire (DBQ) filled out by a doctor of your choice or submit for a C&P exam arranged by the VA. My recent...

i am trying to gather all fingers on my right hand, can not do that while they are outstreched. all fingers tremble. just pinki and ring finger can touch each other. but i can make a fist and gather them when they are curled. left hand is ok. whole right side is problematic. hand, leg, foot...

Hi, I want to start out by pointing out that I suffer from health anxiety/general anxiety since about 3 years back. Had panic attack and so on and up till now I've been worried about my heart mainly, but since about 2 weeks back I haven't been worried at all.. but then I guess my brain...

Hi I was on here at the start of the year to follow up with the results of my EMG in January - this was done at8 or 9 points on the right side, and was what I believe is considered "clean" - it showed fascs at 3 points but nothing else. That was after circa 2.5 years of twitching and lots of...

hello there ! (long read) Here we have a silly nonsense game on tv. It goes like this : there are two teams made of two famous persons and a candidate. They must score points by answering questions that sometimes don't make any sense and are sometimes serious. It is more a pun and bad faith...

HELLO every one i want to thank every one who take his time and read this . my name is Najib I'm 28 years from morocco "north Africa" . we found recently that my father has ALS after a year of suffering between doctors and tests . you cant imaging how devastating was that to me and to my family...

Would it make sense that the very first, very early symptom is the pinky going “limp”; can still perform what you ask it to when you conscuously ask it to, but when not thinking about it, it follows along but looks and feels unenaged with seemingly less muscle contraction? Also, it can...

A few times now when I copied and pasted a link into a thread, I’ve been informed a moderator has to review and approve it before it gets posted. Not a big deal — so far they’ve approved everything I’ve copied and pasted. However, I’m curious as to the reason for doing it this way. This...