Shatzie
Active member
- Joined
- Nov 12, 2007
- Messages
- 86
- Reason
- PALS
- Diagnosis
- 02/2008
- Country
- US
- State
- OK
- City
- Tulsa
I spent five days in Texas last week, three of them at the Neurological Institute at The Methodist Hospital seeing Dr. Stanley Appel and his team. On Wednesday, he officially diagnosed me with Bulbar ALS. He said that he is encouraged about my condition. Although my tests and symptoms were obviously pointing to ALS, he considers the symptoms mild and slowly progressing at this time. In his opinion, the hardest thing that I will have to deal with in the next year is other people's attitudes when they find out I have ALS. He has prescribed Ritulek and a vitamin regimen.
Although I didn't want a diagnosis of ALS, I am relieved and thankful that I have been diagnosed at this stage, knowing how difficult it is for some to get a diagnosis when their symptoms are much more profound and disabling.
Although I didn't want a diagnosis of ALS, I am relieved and thankful that I have been diagnosed at this stage, knowing how difficult it is for some to get a diagnosis when their symptoms are much more profound and disabling.