[ookoli]

Hi All,
I am a 50 yr old male.I was diaognized with ALS on April 26, 2011.I sought a second opinion from another nuerologist on May 13, 2011. He did not confirm the disease or discount it. He rather noted the tests that he carried out which returned negative. The tests included lyme disease, but he did mention that I tested positive for lyme igG. My insurance is inactive now but will be activated on July 1 through HMO. I do not know if this lyme igG is significant or not as the nuerologist did not make any mention of it when i visited him for the results. Instead he told me orally that he could not discount the ALS diaognises since he did not find anything in contrary.

I started having difficulty walking and numbness in my hands after I had hurt my right ankle sometime in Fbruary 2011, which then got swollen. But the difficulty walking and numbness continued to progress after the swollen ankle got better. Up till now, no x-ray has been done on the ankle and I still feel a sharp pain when I press the ankle.

I noticed my body tingling sometime in September 2010, but my Dr. said that I may be lacking some vitamins which I bought immediately. I have no problem breathing and swallowing. Please help me.

[Blessings2You]

Hi, and welcome to the community! I am just wondering...did your doctor give your diagnosis orally as opposed to in writing for insurance purposes?

If you haven't found our ALS forum, here's a link:

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum6.html

I'm sure there will be someone here who can relate to you. This is a good place.

[Darlene]

Happy to see you have come to be with us. We have a great number of friends here to assist you. Just let us know if we can be of any help. Our shoulders are here for support in many ways.

Looking forward to seeing you around. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

Darlene

[ookoli]

Thanks for replying me. The nuuerologist gave me the diaognosis orally, but i went back days later to collect the report from his office which i faxed to social security administration. It was then that i saw that my test was positive on LYME IgG.