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  1. S

    Can someone PLEASE explain to me LMN Verse UMN Weakness?

    What is the difference? I keep hearing UMN weakness will cause spastisity, stiffness, ect I 've read many pals say their 1st symptom was arm weakness, hand weakness, finger weakness, ect. but how does it feel? Weak, meaning tired? IE: holding a cup gets heavy? Weak, meaning cant move it? Do...
  2. J

    Any similar experiences? Will this progress to ALS?

    I am hoping to gain any information from your experiences that you may kindly be willing to share. I am a male age 35 that noticed significant bilateral calf weakness/atrophy 3 years ago (I am unable to toe walk and difficult heel walk). Looking back the wasting started about 6 years ago. I...
  3. R

    Is Weekness a UMN or LMN?

    THX! Trying to figure out if weekness would be picked up on emg. Most articles have weekness listed in BOTH LMN & UMN
  4. Sammantha

    I asked

    This latest EMG was done only on my thumb muscle, he iced my hand to the point of numbness then tested it. I do not have Myotonia. That is when i got up the courage and i said do i have a possible MND, he looked at me like huh? I said it again, then he said, today we are looking at your...
  5. rose

    Skyline Drive

    In response to popular request, I uploaded some photos from the autumn trip we took along the Skyline Drive. The album is open for public viewing on my profile page. Isn't the digital age great! Its so much better than holding friends captive in the livingroom and subjecting them to a...
  6. Bryant80

    Saw this on Raleigh,NC Channel 5

    families and survivors Site Search Military members at greater risk of developing ALS Posted: 15 minutes ago Durham, N.C. — Three years ago, Dugan Smith was the picture-perfect Fort Bragg soldier – strong, fit and muscular. "I was in the best shape of my life," said Smith, who was in his...
  7. U

    Poem of rememberance

    The following is a poem that I have written to express my experience with having a loved one with ALS. I hope that this helps those in the same situation stop and think about things with a different perspective. Dear God, Why?!? Why do loved ones get bad news? I’m so sorry there is nothing...
  8. U

    ALS: Life lessons

    The following is a poem that I have written to express my experience with having a loved one with ALS. I hope that this helps those in the same situation stop and think about things with a different perspective. Dear God, Why?!? Why do loved ones get bad news? I’m so sorry, there is...
  9. P

    Friends help needed...go through please..

    Hi! friends i recently went to see a neuro reagarding my nonstop twitching and muscular pain, and i need to just clarify all that he has told me.He did a clinical and said that he is not even bothered about me having ALS . he said that considering my span of non stop twitching for the past...
  10. B

    2,5 years twitching..now excess saliva

    Hi, I havent posted for a while and was just hanging around. I still have only fasciculations going on and off but last days I am experiencing excess saliva. I know that with ALS this is UMN symptom (not just you inability to swallow, but hypersalivation itself is UMN symptom). So of course I am...
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