heart

  1. B

    Any help would be very much appreciated!

    First off, Happy Memorial Day! A HUGE thanks to those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country! Let me preface by admitting that I have discovered that I am a huge hypochondriac. I was sick with a upper respiratory spell for a few weeks. Sore throat, terrible coughing, etc...All...
  2. M

    Dad has ALS

    I posted already in the general discussion forum but I should have started here. I am a new full time caregiver of my 82 year old father who was diagnosed last year. It probably isn't technically ALS but a motor neuron disease very similar. I have just this month become his full time...
  3. ShiftKicker

    If you have low blood pressure normally...

    ...be very aware of how Tizanidine/Baclofen interacts with dieuretics. My doctor started me with a dieuretic (hydrochlorothiazide) as I can't seem to beat leg edema, no matter what I do. While it's been great for the swelling ankles and night time peeing issue, when combined with Tizanidine, it...
  4. S

    Advice for twitchers

    Those of you with twitching, cramping and any number of other motor, sensory and/or autonomic symptoms, please get your vitamin B6 levels checked and consider whether a statin drug may be causing or aggravating your issues. I have an underlying neuropathy that was almost symptom free (I was...
  5. P

    Father newly diagnosed.

    Good afternoon. Well, I guess my Dad is one of the unlucky ones.:cry: He was diagnosed on Monday with ALS at Johns Hopkins Hospital. They haven't said exactly, but I am pretty certain it is Bulbar onset. Now, I will try and give you some backstory to fill this story out. It's like a real-life...
Back
Top