I am trying so hard to believe my neuro Lisa. I am just so scared on a daily basis. He is a qualified neuro, who would definitely know if something drastic was wrong.

It is just so scary and hard to forget about worrying. As soon as I think I am okay...I start examining my body and create more doubt by finding subtle differences.

In your heart...do you think I am okay...based on all the information I have provided. GP visits, Neuro visit...all whom say I am okay. I am just scared that the EMG is going to pick up on something that the neuro missed.

Do you think that can happen?

Thanks for your help and support Lisa,

Tony

Tony,
You are fine...really, really fine.
Alison

Thanks Allison. Anyone else with any input into my situation?

Anyone else? I am really scared. I seem to not be able to trust my neuro. I am scared about the EMG next Thursday.

Horrible and dumb thing to do to waste your life worrying about a disease that you don't have. You will DIE someday. No doubt about it. Now you've wasted months of your short time here on Earth for nothing. Time lost. Time you will never have back. How much more do you want to blow?

I don't mean to waste time...I am just so scared. All the doctors have said no to ALS...but I can't trust them. I know the EMG is the gold standard and only got a 99% sure from the neuro. He found no weakness on the clinical exam...but still wants to do an EMG.

What if he missed something?

Tony,
Please look around this forum..look at the people who really do live with ALS...are their symptoms and challenges similar to yours.. not at all ...
I'm sorry you are frightened..but all the people here who really are affected by ALS ... are trying to find practical ways of coping with this disease...there is nothing we can help you cope with here...because you do not have symptoms ALS...
If you don't believe your docs...I don't know what to say..as nothing we have said seems to ease your mind at all...
Sorry to be so blunt...but please reread your own posts..and you will see that you answer your own questions... ALS is not the problem ...anxiety is..none of us here are mental health professionals...and are not capable of helping with anxiety ...please consider seeking a counsler as soon as possible ....in the meantime you might wish to look for an anxiety forum....Lisa

One final question Lisa and whomever,

Based on my neuro's dx of BFS and multiple visits to my GP...can I say with certainty that I do not have ALS?

Don't they usually spot something on the clinical exam that points one way or the other. My neuro is doing my EMG for piece of mind...at least that is what he told me.

Thanks in advance,

Tony

He craves your attention Linda Lisa!
Get over yourself, arrigoar, find a date, go outside, have fun, pick a fight with a ufc fighter. Stay away from the computer for one month and you'll be cured! Your imagination is getting the best of you....

If you don't believe neurologists who have examined and tested you, why would you believe people you don't know who've never even seen you? No one--not even the world's leading expert on ALS--can tell you with 100% certainty that you don't have it. Or, for that matter, that you don't have pancreatic cancer or a brain tumor or won't die tomorrow in a car accident. That's just not the way life works.

Hypochondria is a very narcissistic condition. Stop focusing so much on yourself and turn your attention outward to another person or thing. Or just grow up. Sheesh.