LifeWorthLiving,
I just want to point out something that you said to give you a bit of reassurance, if possible. You say that most of the people on this forum are confirmed diagnoses. I just wanted to point something out to you. Most of the people that are here responding to us and giving us information ARE, unfortunately, like you said, diagnosed cases. This is because they have a significantly larger wealth of information about the disease than the other people on this section of the forum do. Most here are people worried that they have ALS. As someone else has stated, very few people in this section have ever ACTUALLY received a diagnosis. Once they are cleared, there is not much reason to stick around the forum, especially if they have a good bit of healthy anxiety. Others like me, who are here and do not have the disease or do not have a diagnosis do not comprehend or understand the nature of the beast enough to help someone else to understand why they should or should not be worried. It is fairly irresponsible to hand out either false hope or false fear. I hope that thinking about it that way will help you to feel a little better. It has been said that very, very few people in the worry section actually have the disease. I haven't been here nearly long enough to affirm that, but I am sure others can. The ones that post here often are usually the ones that, sadly, have need for it. I wish you peace on the journey, and keep us posted.