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Originally Posted by boiler1993
my mom does not have any symptoms as far as i can tell (but my grandma did not begin having symptoms until she was in her 50s). could the symptoms really show so late in her and so early in me and be the same thing?
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Yes, they can. CMT symptoms vary greatly even within the same family if indeed it is CMT. It has been that way in my family. As I said symptoms of CMT did not start for me until my early 50's. Symptoms in other members of the family were at age 11, 30 something, etc.
I also know a person whose father wasn't diagnosed until he was 82. His two chilldren (grown now) one was in the 20's and the other in the 40's (years of age). It does vary greatly.
Symptoms may never be that evident but CMT (certain types) can still be passed on. Or CMT might be misdiagnosed as something else. It still happens today.