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As many of you know, my husband has SEVERE back pain. It had gotten to the point where his"quality of life" was nonexistent. In Febr he had a Lumbar epidural, and it took the edge off his pain. We had another one in March, and we saw a definite improvement. In April we tried trigger point...

Well 7 months into this whole ordeal and I'm still here :( .... Taking a palethra of vitamins, herbal supplements, and antibiotics and have felt periods of slight improvement followed by further decline again... Don't know what I have or what they want to call it but if I don't someone how...

Re: I Need Everyone's Prayers Thank you Ms. Linda...I started my steroids yesterday...only slight improvement in energy and a little with my speech. My leg is ok and my arms havent fallen asleep since Michigan which is huge bc they have fallen asleep every single night since January. I...

I promised my wife I would post this question. Has anyone else on the forum had a solid organ transplant. Long story, but I had a kidney transplant in 1993, after months of dialysis following a failed transplant in 1991. My sister, a true hero, gave me the gift of life in 1993. My wife, with...

My husband has been complaining of weakness in his left hand and arm for several years. About a year ago, he started having trouble gripping with his left hand. By summer, he could not grip a golf club. We went to the top neurologists in the city, and they started testing. From August thru...

If someone's oxygen level is high but someone is out of breath (and on a Bipap with bulbar ALS), and they seem to process things more slowly (poor concentration, hard time forming sentences), is this because of "cognitive changes" or can it just be from lack of oxygen. For those of you on a...

It really is a small world! My Dad is still functional and trying to continue to live his life. He drove himself to the barber and he was telling him about is ALS diagnosis. A buy waiting to get his haircut told my Dad that his cousin had ALS and he wrote a couple books about it. My Dad said...

Rilutek was prescribed for a friend in the UK who is newly (2 months) diagnosed with ALS. He took it for a few days, but felt so "weird", rather dizzy and nauseous, that he stopped taking it. His doctor insisted that he start again, which he has done, but he complains of the same side effects...

Read more here From Gizmodo: The Neuralynx System translates thoughts into speech. It connects to the neurons, sending signals wirelessly to a laptop, which translates the brain activity into spoken English. It's not science fiction: They tried it with a paralyzed 26-year-old and it works...

Hi all, I know many people must post similar threads on here, but none the less I will still post this. As far as I am concerned, I already have ALS and have not been diagnosed yet... but here are my symptoms: I am a 29 year old male in good health. Out of the blue I started experiencing very...