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I would like any knowledge on what criteria I may be missing for my doctors to give me a diagnosis if in fact it is ALS. My thenar and feet muscles have atrophy. Two muscle biopsies show fiber type grouping and chronic denervation with reinnervation, positive Babinski, brisk reflex, nerve...

Hello all, I've been a visitor to this site several times before and am truly grateful for the people on here and the information I've gained from reading your posts. My story: I've been twitching body wide for about 5 months now. I received a 3 limb EMG 3 months after the start of symptoms...

So for the past month I've been living in fear I might have ALS. I have been having pains in my right hand and a feeling of "weirdness" moving the fingers. There's no tingling and\or numbness, but if feels weird, kinda hard to explain. Also I notice there's a indentation in my right hand muscle...

Hello everyone, I too have read the stickies and have a question about my symptoms. I must say that muscular dystrophy runs strongly in my family and that while I, at 33, am still fairly young to have onset symptoms, obviously we are not ruling this out. I am awaiting gene testing for this...

I said I wouldn't post here but alas I am, my anxiety over this has got the better of me. I am a 24 year old medical student (not started my nervous system studies yet - so I have not been overly exposed to people with neurological disorders) who is getting married in June and moving across...

Hi, friends! I am writing here to allay some of my fears--I am 30 year old English teacher, who, two years ago, began to be concerned that he might have ALS. It started, honestly, rather benignly with a few twitches, and what I perceived to be "weakness." I say "weakness," because two years...

Hello, I have stopped myself quite successfully from obsessing over my symptoms for a while now and I haven't written for a long time. Recent developments however have brought me back here and I was hoping for some thoughts on my situation. To briefly recap, i have had symptoms for 1 1/2 years...

Hello, First, sorry for my bad English. I come from Switzerland and I speak French only. I'm 25 years old. For 1 month I'm very stressed... I have many cramps on my hands and my arm. I have also tremor on my fingers. And, of course, I have many fasciculations.. on the feet, on my hands...

Dear all, I am hear seeking your advice (so far i have not been diagnosed with ALS). Shortly to my story. It all started with tigh twitches in october 2015- this twitches then spread over the whole Body (still today); furthermore i have symmetrical muscle wasting (neck, hands, arms, thighs...

Okay, I was today with a neuro FINALLY, after almost 4 months of waiting... He said to me that I'm perfectly fine, he was looking for my strenght and other things, and all was fine. He said, no need for an EMG. And she was looking for fasciculations and said he can't trigger them and that's a...