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My neurologist performed the test himself. He has been doing this for 25+ years and everyone he has seen with my symptoms and EMG results has been eventually diagnosed with ALS.
 
Shatzie, I'm so sorry, how are you doing? It would be great to have no als diagnosis at all but at the same time at least you can have the supports in place and start to deal. I know with some members the road to diagnosis is tough, people getting told they are hypochondriacs, people that have to go from neuro to neuro to get someone to believe them. I'm sure even though you knew something serious was wrong this is still a shock. When did you have your first symptom?
 
Shatzie,

MY prayers go out to you, do you know what the emg showed.
What other tests have you had?
How are your reflexed?
The dr he is sending you to is he an ALS specialist.
 
My neuro told me after the EMG, before he told me his opinion about what I have, that it was definite that this was not just in my head, it was real, and that there definitely was a neuromuscular disease involved according to the EMG results. Although I would really rather have nothing wrong with me, after reading many posts here where other people have been told it was in their mind, stress, etc., at least I can trust what I feel about what is going on in my body. I had never mentioned ALS to any of the doctors I had seen, even though that had been my gut feeling since I found out that ALS can begin with bulbar symptoms. When my symptoms first started I thought that ALS always started in the limbs, so my first thought was MG, but other tests ruled that out. This was my first EMG and I don't know exactly what the results were technically, he said that my legs showed activity that shouldn't be there and is consistant with ALS. He said that everything the EMG, symptoms, reflexes, is pointing to ALS.

My slurred speech started in July 2007, then in October I started having foot drop. I fell really hard in early November, I didn't trip, my foot was just not there when I went to walk. I began to feel twitching in my tongue and in my legs. About that same time I started having swallowing problems and choking. I had an MRI in August and multiple rounds of blood tests leading up to the EMG on Monday.
 
Hello Shatzie. I never like to hear we have gained another PAL. Especially one with a young family. My heart goes out to you and yours. Cindy
 
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