Gorbos
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Hello everyone.
I'm back in this forum after some months.
I had a negative neurological examination in October 2018 and a clean EMG in January 2019, but still I feel weakness at my left upper limb.
This weakness is true, because when I pinch a finger of the right hand using my thumb and first finger of the left hand and I compare with the right ones, I feel there is a difference in strength. I am also left-handed, so I think it's not normal that left hand is the weak one.
Now, it's been a year (and maybe more) since my first symptoms started.
I still have dexterity preserved, I can do everything with my left hand but I feel it's weak compared with the right one.
Now i'd like to ask: is it possible that this could be an upper motor neuron dominant als? Maybe that's why the EMG Didn't pick up changes. And I also read that UMN -dominant has much slower progression than the "classic" one, so I tell myself that maybe that's why I still have dexterity preserved.
I'm back in this forum after some months.
I had a negative neurological examination in October 2018 and a clean EMG in January 2019, but still I feel weakness at my left upper limb.
This weakness is true, because when I pinch a finger of the right hand using my thumb and first finger of the left hand and I compare with the right ones, I feel there is a difference in strength. I am also left-handed, so I think it's not normal that left hand is the weak one.
Now, it's been a year (and maybe more) since my first symptoms started.
I still have dexterity preserved, I can do everything with my left hand but I feel it's weak compared with the right one.
Now i'd like to ask: is it possible that this could be an upper motor neuron dominant als? Maybe that's why the EMG Didn't pick up changes. And I also read that UMN -dominant has much slower progression than the "classic" one, so I tell myself that maybe that's why I still have dexterity preserved.