flora
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- Joined
- Oct 12, 2007
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- 31
- Reason
- Learn about ALS
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- US
- State
- ohio
- City
- north olmsted
I came to this site to try to find answers to questions I never thought in a life time I would have. I had never even heard of this disease until the docs said it to me, and even after just thought it was something like ms cause of the way they told me. After reading through the threads though, it seems that a lot of people have had experiences with it or believe they are having symptoms of it. My question (please forgive my ignorance) is this: Is this disease really that common that people generally think of it as something they may get? I teach anatomy physiology to deaf college students for medical billing and coding and I had never come across it. I am truly floored and feeling so stupid that a disease like this can exist in our world and I have never heard of it. I mean really, I have more knowledge of bovine spongeform encephylitis! I didn't even know that twitching could be a sign of something this horrific.