RWG,
You actually
wrote this in response to Joel? I cannot remember what you said about my symptoms as i haven't been on here for quite a while ~ Are you seriously saying that you can't take the time to go back and read what HE took the time to write to you earlier?
How much do you read on your own? Have you explored this site beyond reading responses to your questions? If so, you would have caught this, as it is a "sticky" at the very top of the Suggestions Problems or Bugs Forum.
https://www.alsforums.com/forum/suggestions-problems-bugs/3354-dont-quote-others-posts.html
Have you used the Search function? Do you need help with instructions on how to use the Search function of this website?
Have you taken the time to search for, and read scholarly articles available online about symptoms you feel you have, or for that matter, scholarly article on MND? I already know the answers to both of these questions, because if you HAD done this, you would not continue asking the questions you ask here.
I do not comprehend how you can honestly think that you are listening to advise given here, when its been pointed out time after time that what you describe is not at all indicative of any sort of MND ~ bulbar ~ no type.
I do not want to sound harsh, it is not my intent. However, you are asking of others what you do not do for yourself first.
As I wrote to another extremely anxious poster earlier this week, even if YOU were 35 years
older than you are right now, and you came on here describing what you perceive is happening to your body, it WOULD NOT be anything which would make any of us, who have experienced the real deal, think it was bulbar ALS or any type of MND. You are NOT the one aberration to the age game, & its not just because you're 28 (?) that we do not think what you describe is anything related to your motor neurons, so move past that. Do some research on your own, take TIME to go back and read what others have already expended effort in writing to you, rather than saying you don't remember.
To answer your question if an ENT would recognize bulbar weakness, YES it was my laryngologist (an ENT) who first caught what was going on with me. They, as a specialty, do have extensive training in understanding cranial nerves.
