steroids

Hi, I am new to the forum. My uncle is scheduled to see a neurologist, but we are thinking the diagnosis may be ALS. I was just wondering if anyone had had a similar experience, we are trying to cope but are beside ourselves at the moment. He has had numbness in hands and vertigo for only a...

I am so anxiety ridden over this fear of ALS. I'm sorry for coming here you are all so brave... I am 54 years old female. In 2005/2006 I had a severe inflammation of sternoclavicular joint requiring steroids etc. I lost 25 lbs and went to Internist. He looked at my palms an thought atrophy. Sent...

In the beginning stages of my onset, my first neurologist had me take steroids orally. This did not help me a whole a lot physically and did a lot more damage to me mentally. I was wondering if anybody had any insight on taking steroids with the needle and syringe instead and if that had any...

I posted on here a while back. It got moved to the fibro area I guess. Well, I'm in a much better place now. If I keep myself healthy, I don't seem to have too many probs. When I get sick, that's the big prob. I had kawasaki when I was young. Some speculation I also had complications like...

I wanted to put some symptoms I've been having up and see if anyone has any thoughts: Approximately 3 weeks ago I began to have symptoms in which it felt like someone was poking me right in the middle of my back on my spine, and I would get a band of itching across my mid back. It never felt...

Ever since I was a kid life did not give me an easy time. I was weird looking and curious enough to get kids to pick on me in kindergarden. Due to frequent fights and pshyical trauma I developed a speech problem that made sure I get molested and bullied in school, in my teenage years I got a...

My husband has been experiencing some symptoms that have led he and his mother to worry that he may have ALS. Now keep in mind that he is only 27, has never been athletic or very active in the gym,is about 30 lbs overweight, and we have a 5 month old who weighs 20 lbs. His grandfather died of...

Hi everyone, I have just joined the forum after finding it following some googling. My mum (60yrs old) got her final diagnosis last Friday here in Sydney confirming she has FTD/MND (the PBP kind). Her symptoms of minor speech and swallowing problems first started in March of this year and is...

I have had my second opinion and my new doctor says I do not have ALS or PLS. He said I may have a very rare genetic disorder or disease that is hard to detect so it could be a while before something is possibly known. The plan is as follows. I had more blood taken for more test. If these...

If ALS slowly atrophy's your muscles, what if you consistently injected metabolic steroids & worked out? Would it build them back up? What if I was JUST diagnosed & caught it early? Would building up my muscles with steroids maybe prolong the 'wasting away' effect? Even just a little bit? *...