Dear All,
Over 17 years ago my husband noticed that the muscle between his thumb and index finger withered away.
We had gone to see a neurologist who had then brought in his colleagues to check my husband. My husband was about 25 years old at the time.
The majority of the doctors thought it was ALS. We then went to another neurologist for a second opinion and he carried out tests and said it wasn't ALS but an ulna neuropathy caused by my husband having banged his elbow a few months back.
As the years went on and as we were told ALS is a quick degenerative disease we started to feel confident that my husband didn't have ALS as his health remained very good and there was no other weakness or muscle wasting anywhere else. In fact his problem hand was getting stronger.
As you can imagine the initial diagnosis had hit us hard so we were always worried, what if the second doctor got it wrong and he did have ALS.
Recently my husband has been worrying that his other hand is feeling a little weaker but is unsure if it truly is or is just worried because of his past diagnosis.
Could it be possible thst ALS could be dormant for 17 years?
Over 17 years ago my husband noticed that the muscle between his thumb and index finger withered away.
We had gone to see a neurologist who had then brought in his colleagues to check my husband. My husband was about 25 years old at the time.
The majority of the doctors thought it was ALS. We then went to another neurologist for a second opinion and he carried out tests and said it wasn't ALS but an ulna neuropathy caused by my husband having banged his elbow a few months back.
As the years went on and as we were told ALS is a quick degenerative disease we started to feel confident that my husband didn't have ALS as his health remained very good and there was no other weakness or muscle wasting anywhere else. In fact his problem hand was getting stronger.
As you can imagine the initial diagnosis had hit us hard so we were always worried, what if the second doctor got it wrong and he did have ALS.
Recently my husband has been worrying that his other hand is feeling a little weaker but is unsure if it truly is or is just worried because of his past diagnosis.
Could it be possible thst ALS could be dormant for 17 years?