Eric Dane Diagnosed With ALS

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Do not look up early symptoms of ALS. It's scary the number of boxes you can check.
 
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bignewt said:
Do not look up early symptoms of ALS. It's scary the number of boxes you can check.
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Already went through that about 2 years ago now. I had some numbness in my right foot and I noticed my calves were twitching all the time, and got to where I felt it trying to sleep. Then felt some weird numbness in my hand. So I went to a neurologist, who checked me out and ordered an MRI. He was more thinking tumor but the muscle twitching really sent me spiraling.

MRI was mostly clean but turns out it was probably degenerative disc issues in my neck, and the calf twitching turns out is benign and not that uncommon. I forgot what it's called but he said that's not a sign of ALS and he said the muscle twitching with that is different.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
Already went through that about 2 years ago now. I had some numbness in my right foot and I noticed my calves were twitching all the time, and got to where I felt it trying to sleep. Then felt some weird numbness in my hand. So I went to a neurologist, who checked me out and ordered an MRI. He was more thinking tumor but the muscle twitching really sent me spiraling.

MRI was mostly clean but turns out it was probably degenerative disc issues in my neck, and the calf twitching turns out is benign and not that uncommon. I forgot what it's called but he said that's not a sign of ALS and he said the muscle twitching with that is different.
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Thats what so damn scary about it is they literally have to rule everything else out before you even know.
 
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Ive been scared sheetless in the past 9 months thinking I had MS and then ALS. Its not a laughing matter but I laugh to keep from soiling my pantaloons.

Life's a journey.
 
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bignewt said:
Thats what so damn scary about it is they literally have to rule everything else out before you even know.
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Yep. The stories that scared me most were the ones where it took them like a year or longer to diagnose, and many times they had previously ruled out ALS only for it to end up being that. Some of them are like "yeah I noticed my foot was a little weird when I ran" or " I had a constant cramp like pain in my calf". I think Eric Dane's was he said he noticed he was having trouble holding his coffee cup or something like that and thought he was just having hand cramps.

I admit I every month or so I do some of the stuff they say they make you do to test, like can you walk on your toes and there's some more that I can't remember at the moment. Apparently the most common one is weakness, suddenly you can't pick up or hold things you easily could before.
 
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Behr said:
Ive been scared sheetless in the past 9 months thinking I had MS and then ALS. Its not a laughing matter but I laugh to keep from soiling my pantaloons.

Life's a journey.
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Whats going on man? Thst sounds serious.
 
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NEO said:
Whats going on man? Thst sounds serious.
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I was just adding to the other comments I didn't mean to draw conversation about my health.

Its all good, thanks for asking. I was passionate about the restaurant business for over 30 years. As I get older my body is reminding me of how I treated it.

What's going on? Im tired. Lol.

Speaking of restaurants, in one of our conversations years ago you and I were trying to remember a restaurant in the town we were talking about and I don't remember if we ever came up with the name. I was talking to my dad not long ago and Long story...Dottie's.
 
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Behr said:
Ive been scared sheetless in the past 9 months thinking I had MS and then ALS. Its not a laughing matter but I laugh to keep from soiling my pantaloons.

Life's a journey.
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I was going through all that. Finally figured out that I had to sleep on my side and all the weirdness went away. Sometimes it flares up, but now I know it's just nerves getting irritated and I can deal with it.
 
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Oh, just a word to the wise. If you are feeling weird nerve stuff, you shouldn't try to rest it off. I was staying out of the gym, thinking I needed to lay off, but a specialist I saw told me that was the worst thing I could have done. If you can keep moving, you should keep moving. Obviously, don't do things that directly irritate your issue.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Oh, just a word to the wise. If you are feeling weird nerve stuff, you shouldn't try to rest it off. I was staying out of the gym, thinking I needed to lay off, but a specialist I saw told me that was the worst thing I could have done. If you can keep moving, you should keep moving. Obviously, don't do things that directly irritate your issue.
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I had my PB bench press last years at age 52 with a herniated disc in my back. Now the disc wound up getting a lot worse a month later but at the time all I could think to do was keep on keepin on.
 
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