To get to my dad actually being diagnosed with ALS was quite a process. That is for fucking sure. My mother thought he had Parkinson’s. My mom is also a big fan of WebMD. I didn’t know what it was but there was definitely something wrong. His neurologist didn’t but humored by mother with a battery of tests. I Including an Alzheimer’s test and a Parkinson’s test, a very expensive (with deposit for medication in the few thousand dollar range out of pocket to schedule)]. Granted you got the deposit back once you showed up fro the test and it was covered by insurance. But I don’t know that many people that have a couple to a few thousand dollars sitting around to be held for a medical test.) There isn’t really a definitive test for ALS. There are symptoms that sometimes present, and can present in different sequences at different times. You can have an EMG and nerve conductivity test done to kind of “confirm” the diagnosis. Other than that, to my understanding, the other tests can r
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