ALS

[8611]

About 2 days ago i woke up with a tingle sensation both my arms. When they subsided my left arm felt a bit heavier than my right, i also noticed on my left leg. It has been about 3 days since my initial symptoms and my left arm and leg still feel quite heavy. I'm also getting muscle cramps on my left calf and sometimes on my thigh. Do these sound like the initial symptoms of ALS or am i just paranoid.

Thanks you    


This discussion is related to Early ALS symptoms.

[PokieGirl]

ANYONE who has unexplained neurological, autoimmune, ALS or MS like symptoms should be screened for Lyme disease & other tick borne disease. And do NOT let them give you the standard ELISA test. If you have symptoms severe enough to make you wonder about any of these conditions & you have Lyme, it is already entrenched behind the blood-brain barrier. The Lyme spirochete invades theCSF and can penetrate the blood-brain barrier within 12 hours of infection. Insist on full Western Blot, PCR, or one of the newer and more reliable tests. MD’s are still letting patients die or suffer debilitating, crippling illness because they are clueless as to how to test for, diagnose, and treat Lyme & other tick-borne diseases. Many who  downplay the seriousness of these infections or do not understand them.Thankfully, this is beginning to change.

FYI, Lyme spirochete have been found in 90% of patients whose brains were autopsied, I’m one or more studies, after they had died from MS, ALS, and Parkinson’s disease. A link to  some cases of dementia is now also suspected.

Please see here for patient advocacy and for more information.

www.ilads.org

LymeDisease.org

[PokieGirl]

ANYONE who has unexplained neurological, autoimmune, ALS or MS like symptoms should be screened for Lyme disease & other tick borne disease. And do NOT let them give you the standard ELISA test. If you have symptoms severe enough to make you wonder about any of these conditions & you have Lyme, it is already entrenched behind the blood-brain barrier. The Lyme spirochete invades theCSF and can penetrate the blood-brain barrier within 12 hours of infection. Insist on full Western Blot, PCR, or one of the newer and more reliable tests. MD’s are still letting patients die or suffer debilitating, crippling illness because they are clueless as to how to test for, diagnose, and treat Lyme & other tick-borne diseases. Many who  downplay the seriousness of these infections or do not understand them.Thankfully, this is beginning to change.

FYI, Lyme spirochete have been found in 90% of patients whose brains were autopsied, I’m one or more studies, after they had died from MS, ALS, and Parkinson’s disease. A link to  some cases of dementia is now also suspected.

Please see here for patient advocacy and for more information.

www.ilads.org

LymeDisease.org

[PokieGirl]

ANYONE who has unexplained neurological, autoimmune, ALS or MS like symptoms should be screened for Lyme disease & other tick borne disease. And do NOT let them give you the standard ELISA test. If you have symptoms severe enough to make you wonder about any of these conditions & you have Lyme, it is already entrenched behind the blood-brain barrier. The Lyme spirochete invades theCSF and can penetrate the blood-brain barrier within 12 hours of infection. Insist on full Western Blot, PCR, or one of the newer and more reliable tests. MD’s are still letting patients die or suffer debilitating, crippling illness because they are clueless as to how to test for, diagnose, and treat Lyme & other tick-borne diseases. Many who  downplay the seriousness of these infections or do not understand them.Thankfully, this is beginning to change.

FYI, Lyme spirochete have been found in 90% of patients whose brains were autopsied, I’m one or more studies, after they had died from MS, ALS, and Parkinson’s disease. A link to  some cases of dementia is now also suspected.

Please see here for patient advocacy and for more information.

www.ilads.org

LymeDisease.org

[Dr Sharma]

Hi there. Symptoms of ALS are weakness and / or muscle atrophy. Other symptoms are muscle fasciculation, cramping or stiffness of affected muscles, muscle weakness affecting an arm or a leg, and/ or slurred and nasal speech. The parts to be affected first depend on which motor neurons are damaged first. Most of the affected get limb symptoms first.   Do you have difficulty with tasks requiring manual coordination like shirt buttoning, writing etc. since symptoms appeared in the upper limb first for you?
Since these can be similar to so many other conditions diagnosis would require certain tests like EMG, nerve conduction velocity NCV to pin down a peripheral neuropathy or a myopathy.  MRI can reveal other mimicking problems like herniated disc in the neck, syringomyelia and cervical spondylosis.
Hope this helps. Consult your neurologist at the earliest. Take care.

[PokieGirl]

Testing

[PokieGirl]

Please see response to similar question. My apologies for duplicate post or posts.