Martavh
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Hello to everyone there fighting dificult times. I Am a 46 year old woman from Spain Who has some symptoms and has some doubts about if these could be of ALS.
I Will try to tell you my story short so as not to bother you with boring details. In September 2017 I started having pain and problems with my neck on my left side with dizziness and vértigo. Went for a MRI and everything was fine. Aches and contractured muscle went on to shoulder and ultímately this summer I experienced weakness in hand. However, I still can do everything normal but feel I have lees strength in it.
In between I was diagnosed with helicobacter pyloris, a stomach bug, and had to take Lots of antibiótics to finish with it. Helicobacter also produced anemia and I had pins and needles both in hands and legs, weakness in my left leg and twitches all o ver. I then visited neurologist Who didnt examine me but ordered EMG and ENG and brain MRI. He attributed pins and Needle feelings to anemia.
The nerve conduction study was done all o ver my leg ( Front and Back) and left arm and hand. EMG, however, was done Just on the front of the leg: foot, shin and thigh. . In the arm it was done on biceps, tríceps and deltoid muscle. Everything was fine and EMG and brain MRI were clean. Neurologist looked at results and sent me to psychiatrist and traumatologist for my leg. Said he saw nothing neurologic as per the tests.
But as of 3 weeks or so I have been feeling vibrations at the Back of my legs together with dome twitches. My leg Hurts when I walk and traumatologist said she could see one of my calves was discreetly thinner than the other but said it was not important.
So now I Wonder if EMG on the front of my leg was enough to outrule ALS or if I should go through the test again. Could you help me with this?
Thanks so much in advance for letting me express my worries here.
I Will try to tell you my story short so as not to bother you with boring details. In September 2017 I started having pain and problems with my neck on my left side with dizziness and vértigo. Went for a MRI and everything was fine. Aches and contractured muscle went on to shoulder and ultímately this summer I experienced weakness in hand. However, I still can do everything normal but feel I have lees strength in it.
In between I was diagnosed with helicobacter pyloris, a stomach bug, and had to take Lots of antibiótics to finish with it. Helicobacter also produced anemia and I had pins and needles both in hands and legs, weakness in my left leg and twitches all o ver. I then visited neurologist Who didnt examine me but ordered EMG and ENG and brain MRI. He attributed pins and Needle feelings to anemia.
The nerve conduction study was done all o ver my leg ( Front and Back) and left arm and hand. EMG, however, was done Just on the front of the leg: foot, shin and thigh. . In the arm it was done on biceps, tríceps and deltoid muscle. Everything was fine and EMG and brain MRI were clean. Neurologist looked at results and sent me to psychiatrist and traumatologist for my leg. Said he saw nothing neurologic as per the tests.
But as of 3 weeks or so I have been feeling vibrations at the Back of my legs together with dome twitches. My leg Hurts when I walk and traumatologist said she could see one of my calves was discreetly thinner than the other but said it was not important.
So now I Wonder if EMG on the front of my leg was enough to outrule ALS or if I should go through the test again. Could you help me with this?
Thanks so much in advance for letting me express my worries here.
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