symptoms

Hi Everyone, My husband is 35 years old and has lost a cousin, an aunt, 2 uncles, (all to ALS) and currently watches his mom battle the final stages of ALS. His family carries the c9 gene. Upon visiting with his mom over Christmas (they live out of state) and spending a week surrounded by ALS...

Hi, It started a week ago suddenly with right sided arm/leg weakness that then went away and shifted to left arm/left only. After it shifted to my thigh piriformis and calf. There is occasional tightness too of course I looked up my symptoms and als came up and I'm really nervous. I'm just not...

Hi, So about a week ago I suddenly had right arm and leg weakness. That went away and then it became left arm and leg weakness. Then it moved down to my calf and piriformis muscle. There are also sometimes tightness and twitching involved. I know these symptoms came on suddenly but of course I...

Hi everyone, I hoping someone can help me,with advising on a super als/mnd specialist! I live in Melbourne Australia, and I’ve been to quite a few neurologists, but I can’t seem to find anyone one with the title neuromuscular specialist for als/mnd The simple fact is I’ve been having...

Last thread Finally got into the neuro yesterday. After some tests he came back in and asked me and my gf to sit down. He explained to me that from the Emg he couldn’t deny the possibility of als. I almost lost it right there. I ha e only been ha i g symptoms for six months and he said given...

Hello, Like many others I have been visiting this message board after experiencing symptoms that led me to the internet - that led me here. I have read many posts and many stories on this site and have much respect for this wonderful forum. I will try not to make this a long and hard to read...

I am norwegian, so my english may be a bit wierd. I am a 33 year old woman. I was diagnosed with reumatoid arhritis in 2014. It has affected my left knee and ancle pretty bad. I have had multiple steroid injections, but the inflammation has been bad and ongoing for almost 5 year now. So I am...

Hi my issue started in Nov was cooking bad pain in right hand went to doc blood test xray all fine physio noticed atrophy in my hand between thumb and forefinger went to neuro she didn't think I had adl had a emg result one slightly abnormal muscle in hand all others OK ongoing tingling numbness...

Hi back in November while cooking I had bad pain in right hand went to doc did blood tests xray nothing came up went to physio he noticed wasted muscle in between thumb and forefinger advised go to neuro she didn't think I had adl bfubding writing hard painful hand feels weak had a emg test...

Hey all, I am glad I found you. I have been experiencing twitching for 2 1/2 years. I was d's with fnd last year. However, this last February my foot started twitching like crazy. This march the CONSTANT twitching moved to the other side of the same foot. I noticed that my foot has atrophied...