Spud
New member
- Joined
- Apr 16, 2019
- Messages
- 3
- Reason
- Loved one DX
- Diagnosis
- 04/2019
- Country
- US
- State
- TX
- City
- Missouri City
Good evening, all.
I haven't posted in some time. Just trying to process my family's new journey. My mom was diagnosed with ALS in May of this year. Today she found out that her 3rd cousin had ALS. I "googled" to try and understand if this is now fALS. It does say that 2 blood relatives makes it so but it doesn't say what generation this includes. So my question is, obviously, am I at risk now? I did read that if parent has it, offspring have 50% chance of getting mutated gene. I called our care team to discuss genetic testing for me and the nurse really didn't have an answer because we don't know what mutated gene is there. I was just told to ask doctor at next visit with my mom in October. This is all so new, and so scary, and so crazy, and on and on. I did read some of the threads on this forum but I'm still confused as to whether I have a 50% chance of developing ALS in 10 years.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated. My mom is 67 and I am 49 with 2 daughters that I love dearly. I want to be around for my grandchildren. I just need some simple, talk to me like I'm a 4 year old, education
Thank you, everyone for listening or reading.
Spud
I haven't posted in some time. Just trying to process my family's new journey. My mom was diagnosed with ALS in May of this year. Today she found out that her 3rd cousin had ALS. I "googled" to try and understand if this is now fALS. It does say that 2 blood relatives makes it so but it doesn't say what generation this includes. So my question is, obviously, am I at risk now? I did read that if parent has it, offspring have 50% chance of getting mutated gene. I called our care team to discuss genetic testing for me and the nurse really didn't have an answer because we don't know what mutated gene is there. I was just told to ask doctor at next visit with my mom in October. This is all so new, and so scary, and so crazy, and on and on. I did read some of the threads on this forum but I'm still confused as to whether I have a 50% chance of developing ALS in 10 years.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated. My mom is 67 and I am 49 with 2 daughters that I love dearly. I want to be around for my grandchildren. I just need some simple, talk to me like I'm a 4 year old, education
Thank you, everyone for listening or reading.
Spud