health

Hello, everyone! First of all, i'm not very confident with English language. Sorry if I make some mistakes. I'm sure you won't have problems understanding me! I'm a 23 years old male, and i've been searching for a diagnostic for over a year (March 2016)... and i've experienced many symptoms...

Hi everyone. I am new to these forums but unfortunately not to ALS. My father was diagnosed at the end of 2004 and passed away March of 2006. My grandfather was diagnosed in 2012 and passed away early 2013 (he had many other health issues, as well.) My grandfather's brother had Muscular...

Hello all. I am 45 years old and an RN. I have been doing home health for the past 5 years and have had multiple patients with MS, ALS and PLS. About 1 year ago I notice some slight twitching in my left toes and foot as well as clumsiness in my hands. I wrote it off to stress, fatigue, getting...

Hello everybody, I hope you don't mind me writing on here, I didn't really know where to put it. This post is a lot different to my others. I would like to thank you all from the bottom of my heart. Secondly, I would like to apologise. I started getting symptoms nearly a year ago today-...

Hello everyone, My wife and I have used this forum as a place to gather information and try to prepare as best we could to help my wife's mother. Roughly a year ago she was diagnosed with ALS and it has been quite aggressive over the last 6 months. At the start, we had done everything we could...

Hi everyone. First off, let me start by saying that I cannot start to imagine what you are going through and how brave you all are to dedicate time to helping each other out. Second off, I hope no one with ALS will be offended by my scares. Trust me, I am dreading to have anything close to...

First off, hello everyone! This is only my second post to the ALS Forums. I have read/lurked a bit over the last ~6 months, but have stayed quiet while trying to process everything going on around me. To sum up my story as a "caregiver"... My beautiful wife and I married back in 2014 and had...

Wanted to get some feedback and advice. Here is the deal. My breathing is getting worse, and the home health nurse said there is some crackling noise in the bottom of my lungs indicating fluid. My wife and Roger ( home health nurse) don't communicate well, he talks about potential issues and...

Me and my PALS live in FL. I hired a home health agency to send someone for 2 hrs on days I work (once or twice a week at the most). I have found on most occasions they either don't show up or are late. This is ridiculous. Is this common with home health aides? Most of them have unreliable cars...

Hello, Thank you for allowing me in your group. My sister was diagnosed in 12-12-13, she passed 5-4-15. There are 7 children total, a brother died at 22 months unrelated to ALS, all in relatively good health. My mother is adopted. Both parents 86, still living and in relatively good health. My...