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Meet Todd Walker
This 2014 Roundabout U video is all about Todd Walker from Murray, Kentucky. Todd shares his ALS story, which began when he was suddenly unable to exercise as usual. At first, Todd was diagnosed with depression, but after consulting with a neurologist, he was diagnosed with ALS.
Click here to watch the video and learn more about Todd’s story.
What steps did you take before getting your ALS diagnosis? Looking back, what were some of your earliest symptoms?
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Todd’s experience points to how important it is to have a correct diagnosis as early as possible, so that appropriate medication and therapies can be initiated.
Unfortunately, when he was diagnosed in 2014, his general practitioner wrote off Todd’s symptoms as due to depression. Hopefully, the many awareness campaigns in the past 5 years have helped make ALS more visible… and recognizable to medical professionals.
General practitioners should refer patients on to specialists asap. Or, maybe we patients need to become more assertive about the “care of our health.”
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