setm0812
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- Dec 24, 2014
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- Loved one DX
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- Keyport
Hello all. I've been scanning this forum for a while and finally joined. First off I just wanted to say God bless you all. You are all some the strongest most courages individuals i have come across in a long time. The main reason I joined was because my aunt was recently diagnosed with bulbar onset als. Like I said iv been on this forum for a while gathering information and educating myself as much as I can. Unfortunately I'm a bit of a hypochondriac and in the past month I've been worried about some symptoms iv been experiencing. I have read the stickies but I would like to get some honest opinions.
First off I'm a 28 year old man who is healthy as far as I know. I am a bit stressed since in the last 1 and a half years I got a new job, got married, bought a new house, and now my wife and I are expecting. All good things. I went to my doctor the end of October because of some pretty significant fatigue. He believed it the be stress related but we ran a bunch of blood work, a breathing test, and a sleep study just be be safe. All came back not only fine but above normal.
The symptoms iv been experiencing have been speech related which my doctor also believes to be a manifestation of strees.
So I seem to have a problem putting words and sentences together or just getting words out for that matter. I will completly butcher words often and find it happening more and more lately. I also feel like I've been slurring but my wife swears she doesn't here it. My mouth and tongue were tingling and burning for a while and still do everyonce in a while. It seems as if my tongue is just not working the way it should. Almost like my brain is not sending the right message to my tongue to make it move properly to pronounce words. I don't have any issues moving my tongue or my mouth at all. There is no weakness, atleast that I notice. In fact when I sing I can pronounce everything and speak fine but when I try and hold a conversation my words are jumbled and butcherd and slurred. Does this sound like the start of something I should be concerned about or more of a strees and anxiety issue.
Sorry if that was a bit long and thank you all for listening.
God bless
First off I'm a 28 year old man who is healthy as far as I know. I am a bit stressed since in the last 1 and a half years I got a new job, got married, bought a new house, and now my wife and I are expecting. All good things. I went to my doctor the end of October because of some pretty significant fatigue. He believed it the be stress related but we ran a bunch of blood work, a breathing test, and a sleep study just be be safe. All came back not only fine but above normal.
The symptoms iv been experiencing have been speech related which my doctor also believes to be a manifestation of strees.
So I seem to have a problem putting words and sentences together or just getting words out for that matter. I will completly butcher words often and find it happening more and more lately. I also feel like I've been slurring but my wife swears she doesn't here it. My mouth and tongue were tingling and burning for a while and still do everyonce in a while. It seems as if my tongue is just not working the way it should. Almost like my brain is not sending the right message to my tongue to make it move properly to pronounce words. I don't have any issues moving my tongue or my mouth at all. There is no weakness, atleast that I notice. In fact when I sing I can pronounce everything and speak fine but when I try and hold a conversation my words are jumbled and butcherd and slurred. Does this sound like the start of something I should be concerned about or more of a strees and anxiety issue.
Sorry if that was a bit long and thank you all for listening.
God bless