Kimberly2790
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- Learn about ALS
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This is my first time every posting on a forum. My husband is 58. A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that my husband speech was slightly slurred. I just put it off as stress. He runs his own business. Then the other day he was frustrated and said I can't even talk any more. After that comment I have paid more attention and noticed that his speech is still slurred almost like he is intoxicated. So I goggled slurred speech and ALS came up. I read about it, still thinking his speech problem were due to stress. Then we went away together for the week end and I noticed that he has a continual twitch in his left arm between his bicep and forearm. It twitches all the time, I can feel it even when he is sleeping. Sometime it also twitches up a little higher in to his shoulder also. He can't feel it and I had to bring it to his attention that it was even twitching. Now I am starting to worry. I brought this up to him that I thought that we should go to the doctor and just get things checked out, I mentioned ALS and he freaked and told me he would kill himself if he has that. He watched his mother pass away because of ALS. So my question is should I force the issue of the doctor or just wait for more symptoms? Is going to doctor going to help anything? I would like to know either way, but is it better for the person being diagnosed to find out later? I am truly worried that if it turns out to be ALS, that it will literally throw my husband over the edge. How fast from twitching will he loose use of his arm or develop other symptoms? Any information or feeling about this would be helpful.