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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Grand Magnate
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 4,440
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There are 22+ types of CMT that they can do DNA blood testing for. And there are 50 types of CMT identified so far and there is no end in sight.
Perhaps DNA blood testing http://athenadiagnostics.com would rule CMT in or out. However, you still could have CMT with a type that they cannot do DNA blood testing for yet.
If indeed you do have CMT, it would more than likely be inherited from either your mother or your father. Symptoms of CMT can vary greatly even within the same family. Symptoms can become evident when you are young, old, or in-between or they might not be evident at all but the person can still pass it on. Also, the different types and sub types of CMT affect people differently as well.
If you do indeed have CMT, that would be the type that is in your family. Perhaps checking out your family history might be of some help as well.
Before DNA blood testing became available in 1991, CMT was just known as CMT or Peroneal Muscle Atrophy. Now it is called CMT as well as Hereditary Motor Sensory Neuropathy (HMSN). They have come a long way since it was discovered in 1886. I hope you get answers and the correct diagnosis.
You also need to be seeing a neurologist who is very knowledeable about CMT.
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