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  1. T

    Scared-someone please help!

    Here is the story: a 36 y.o. healthy male with a young family is having muscle weakness in this hands, left wrist and muscle twitches. The neurologists seem to think it could be ALS. Of course, they cannot diagnosis him with ALS until more symptoms present. Bearing all this in mind, about 1...
    • tg0811
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    • advice als back cure diagnosis family help! holiday lyme lyme disease medical medicine meds muscle muscle twitches muscle weakness please help progression questions scared story symptoms therapy twitches weakness work wrist young
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: General discussion about ALS/MND
  2. J

    Frustrated!

    Spent 3 weeks with Dad. It gets harder and harder to leave. We were both in tears when I left. I am still trying to get all the equipment we need to look after him at home. He is so afraid of being left alone for some reason and it hurts me that he needs this reassurance. He doesn't seem to...
    • JMH
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    • als back christmas confused dad equipment frustrated holiday home care hours hoyer hoyer lift improvement lift pain phlegm saliva suction treatment vent
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Current caregivers
  3. R

    Do ever wonder why us

    Today I got a call from a very close friend who has been battling Cancer for 2 years now. They told her today she had more spots on her liver and here she goes back to Chemo for once a wk. for no telling how long. I just lost it I hadn't ask God why yet, but sometimes you wonder. I would...
  4. G

    so that's what 2006 was about, huh.

    looking back, this has been a very emotional year for my family... as my aunt was diagnosed with ALS in july '06. i just got off the phone with her and while her speech is not great and getting worse (slowly, thank god)... her spirit is top notch. she's doing everything she can to fight the...
    • gilly
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    • als back cure diagnosed family holiday hope money speech supplement taste
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: People with ALS (PALS)
  5. W

    Advice on Colds PLEASE I'M WORRIED

    Hello to all and a Happy Holiday Season.... I have not written in awhile... Things have been the same and dad is doing well thank GOD... I need some experience and I know the best place to come is ALS Forums.... AL and his team is what I call us to the public.... I tend to overreact and...
  6. sara06

    Another diagnosis in my family

    I am writing today with a heavy and very saddened heart. Some of you are familiar with my families story. For those of you that aren't, I will tell you a little bit about us. My great grandparents had 4 sons. The oldest died of polio at age 4, my grandfather at age 44 from ALS, my great uncle...
  7. A

    The Holidays

    Hi friends, I've been reading the forums for about the last 5 months. My mom was diagnosed with ALS in June. Her symptoms actually started about a year prior to her diagnosis. Her main challenge right now is inability to swallow or speak. She has a wonderful attitude and spirit and she is...
    • Angelgirl
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    • ability als choking christmas diagnosed diagnosis eating feeding feeding tube food holiday reading risk swallow symptoms
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Current caregivers
  8. S

    Holidays

    I miss going on holidays with my mum. She is so limited as to where she can go now...that upsets me the most. We used to go camping all the time. There are some places she can go, but she kind of doesn't want to cause it is so much work for her and she wouldn't be as comfortable as she is at...
  9. A

    A BAD holiday!

    Hi Everyone, If you wouldn't mind I have a littling venting to do, as I feel my family just can't seem to get a break. My beautiful mother who was only diagnosed with ALS 2 1/2 months ago is going down hill fast. My husband, myself our 2 small boys ( 1 & 3yrs ) and my Dad ( her ex husband, but...
  10. A

    Afraid

    I have been reading this forum for a month now, and just couldn't wait any longer to join. My wonderful mother was diagnosed on Aug 19 ( that date is burned into my brain forever!) I am so afraid of what is going to happen to her. I know everyone progresses differently, but is there any hope...
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