McCamy
New member
- Joined
- Feb 14, 2021
- Messages
- 2
- Reason
- PALS
- Diagnosis
- 02/2021
- Country
- US
- State
- TX
- City
- Fort Worth
Vaccine side effects cannot be worse than the disease. I caught Covid early December. I survived (obviously) but since then my symptoms are so much worse. Before Covid I mainly had bulbar with dysarthria speech, some trouble swallowing with aspiration liquids only (speech therapist showed me how to hold my breath when swallowing liquids which brings the vocal cords together). I was doing half mile walks for exercise using a staff due to some minor balance problems, stairs were no problem and I had no symptoms in my arms at all. Also normal EMG in May and then October 2020. After Covid my speech is unintelligible I have profound weakness in both arms and legs (basically all over) and I got new EMGs 2/21 which showed evidence motor neuron disease in lumbar/cervical/thoracic meaning my ALS is now everywhere. Plus the Covid brain fog on top of the motor symptoms.
Has anyone else experienced Covid with rapid deterioration in function? I keep hoping this is Covid Long Haul superimposed on early ALS but the new abnormal EMGs have me worried that Covid can damage the anterior horn cells (the way that polio and other enteroviruses can).
Also on a related note, every incremental decrease in function which I have experienced over the last year has come during a viral infection. Influenza twice, meta pneumonia virus, shingles. These are all viral infections known to affect the nervous system. Has anyone else experienced permanent worsening of ALS symptoms from viral infections?
Has anyone else experienced Covid with rapid deterioration in function? I keep hoping this is Covid Long Haul superimposed on early ALS but the new abnormal EMGs have me worried that Covid can damage the anterior horn cells (the way that polio and other enteroviruses can).
Also on a related note, every incremental decrease in function which I have experienced over the last year has come during a viral infection. Influenza twice, meta pneumonia virus, shingles. These are all viral infections known to affect the nervous system. Has anyone else experienced permanent worsening of ALS symptoms from viral infections?