Diary of a Mad Snow Shoveler
December 8: 6:00 PM. It started to snow. The first snow of the season and the wife and I took our cocktails and sat for hours by the window watching the huge soft flakes drift down from heaven. It looked like a Grandma Moses Print. So romantic we felt like newlyweds...
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Look, I am extremely new to all of this. I never thought it would get to the point that I would have to post on here but, here is goes.
I am a 23 year old college student. I am a smoker. I am not in the best shape, but I am actually underweight.
This all started this past summer...
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anxiety
atrophy
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bed
brain
cell
fatigue
fear
headaches
health
heaviness
idiot
immediately
life
muscles
night
pain
reading
scared
stress
student
stupid
swelling
symptoms
tests
twitching
wrist
wrong
A story about falling ill in ALS, the devil´s disease, with reflections and criticism you can have as a physician after onset of ALS.
Author Ulf Ljungblad MD, PhD - August 2014
ALS is sometimes called the devil´s disease. It usually affects fully healthy often physically very active persons...
Let me begin by saying how much I respect and empathize with this horrible battle that each of you are going through. None of you deserves it, and I know there is little I can say that will help, but my heart is with each of you, for whatever it is worth. I have not been diagnosed, but it is...
als
anger
angry
anxiety
bipap
bulbar
confused
diagnosis
emg
frustrated
fvc
idiot
information
insomnia
lung capacity
medical
mistake
muscles
neurologist
neuromuscular disorder
new member
normal emg
oxygen
problem
reading
research
sad
support
symptoms
tests
wanted
weakness
work
wrong
My left hand is fine it's a tad boney but nothing major
My right hand however has gotten boney and now looks awful like a skeleton hand. I can feel the tendons in my hand stick out . Went to see Dr but git told was old age. I'm 35! I am not an idiot but no idea what to do. Is this atrophy...
8 months ago i started feeling pain in my left arm. Thought it was CTS because my hand would go numb at night. Went to the doctor he told me tendinitis. I took some meds but they didn't work. Started getting twitching in my ring finger which spread to the rest of my fingers. Pain and aching...
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arm
atrophy
burning
finger
fingers
healing
idiot
immediately
meds
muscle
neurologist
night
pain
reflex
ring finger
running
test
twitching
work
worried
Another Christmas with ALS. Wonderful neighbors and friends and my Pals still able to sit somewhat and play Left Right Center and we left having won two of the pots!
Attended another holiday party and met anther couple, husband in his fifties about 8 months in with ALS. His speech very...
Good evening everyone, I am new to the site and would just like to start off by saying how much I admire everyone who is in some way affected by ALS. I am a 22 year old male who has always led a very active lifestyle whether...
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I posted my story on the wrong thread so i re post it:I was going through the internet regarding the disease,and after reading tons of stuff,one question remained to be answered to me at least:the symptoms,let's take a stiff arm for example,come and go at the onset of ALS or once you...
Hello,
I was going through the internet regarding the disease,and after reading tons of stuff,one question remained to be answered to me at least:the symptoms,let's take a stiff arm for example,come and go at the onset of ALS or once you have one of the symptoms it remains and progresses...