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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Grand Magnate
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by sadfeet
What is also strange about my friend with CMT, is that it is genetic, and no one in her family has it. I guess it has to start somewhere. anyway hope that helps.
lynn
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Hi, For the most part CMT is inherited. As I've said before, CMT symptoms can become evident when you are young, old, or in-between. Or symptoms might not be evident at all but you still can pass it on. If one looks back there might be a mother, father, aunt, uncle, grandma, grandpa, etc. who was misdiagnosed or perhaps it was thought that they had arthritis or the like. Or perhaps symptoms were not evident but they passed it on. Polio was another misdiagnosis. And Frederick's Ataxia is another.
There are many types of CMT that they have found now and more all the time. Different types affect people differently. CMT symptoms vary greatly even within the same family. And the type that is diagnosed in one family member who has CMT is the type that would be in the family.
Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease (CMT) was also called Peroneal Muscle Atrophy. Now it's also called Heriditary Motor Sensory Neuropathy (HMSN). And also Charcot-Marie-Tooth Syndrome. We used to know it only as CMT or Peroneal Muscle Atrophy. There were no types yet known like type 1, 2, etc. and all the subtypes. DNA blood testing for CMT became available in 1993 and of course that wasn't for all the types they can test for now which is over 20.
CMT was discovered in 1886. Imagine how much has come to be known about it in just the past 15 years or so. And there is much more to learn as it is a very complicated syndrome. There is much research that is going on that most people do not even know about. It is under the MDA umbrella, as they say, along with about 40 other diseases. Jean Martin Charcot also discovered ALS and MS.
Sometimes there is a mutation but that is rare for the most part. A good neurologist who knows CMT can answer a lot of questions.
As far as feet and arches, my own look normal. Hope this helps some.
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Kitt
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Last edited by Kitt; 01-07-2009 at 10:30 AM.
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