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  • Joan

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    August 3, 2023 at 2:22 pm in reply to: What do you think about Gene Therapy?

    I’d love it but have c9 defect

  • Joan

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    August 1, 2023 at 5:06 pm in reply to: Multi purpose chair

    Too expensive for me but great design

  • I still go to church most every day

    we play cards with friends or see movies or I let them drink and eat it doesn’t bother me to not be able to participate as long as I can be part of the conversation even if it’s with my phone! We go to peoples houses or they come here and just hang and talk. We’ve gone to the botanic gardens, me in a wheelchair, and the zoo

  • The new Healy regimen F

    with targeting tfp43

    joan

  • Joan

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    March 2, 2023 at 5:57 pm in reply to: Favorite methods for holding head up

    I can’t hold my head up either

    the soft collars work marginally

    I have a hard class but rarely use it

    the best one for myself o found on Amazon called comfy med. Comes in sizes and not expensive

    Joan

  • Joan

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    January 3, 2023 at 3:35 pm in reply to: Relyvrio

    I have it but my cytokinetics drug raised my liver and can’t start the relyvrio until liver is normal

  • Joan

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    January 3, 2023 at 3:35 pm in reply to: Relyvrio

    I have it but my cytokinetics drug raised my liver and can’t start the relyvrio until liver is normal

  • Joan

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    February 8, 2022 at 3:08 pm in reply to: Young man with suspected bulbar ALS – what on earth should I do now?

    Please se a neuromuscular doctor and no one else
    It’s important to see the correct specialist and it should not take a year. It is a diagnosis of exclusion

  • Joan

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    January 11, 2022 at 2:40 pm in reply to: Is NF-L in CSF Lumbal Puncture a reliable BioMarker?

    I suggest a second opinion and if you have the means I would go to Mass general .  Fasciculations are a hall mark of ALS. no other disease causes them

  • Joan

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    October 5, 2021 at 6:28 pm in reply to: Understanding PFT

    You need to see a pulmonologist ( lung doctor) specializing in ALS

  • Joan

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    September 7, 2021 at 5:48 pm in reply to: Alternative Medicine and ALS

    Thank you

  • Joan

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    September 1, 2021 at 5:12 pm in reply to: Dude about diagnosis

    I would not wait but see an ALS expert and they are hard to find
    She needs to have everything else excluded but then should consider treatment now and not wait
    You never know how long you have to live

    i had to go to another state to see the correct doctors

  • Joan

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    September 1, 2021 at 5:11 pm in reply to: Dude about diagnosis

    I would not wait but see an ALS expert and they are hard to find
    She needs to have everything else excluded but then should consider treatment now and not wait
    You never know howling you have to live

  • Joan

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    June 8, 2023 at 2:31 pm in reply to: Relyvrio

    I had so much saliva with just one pill. I quit

  • Joan

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    January 11, 2022 at 2:43 pm in reply to: C9 research

    I have the C9 defect.  what study are you in and through whom or where?

  • Joan

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    September 23, 2021 at 2:38 pm in reply to: Update us on the research and trials you are in!!

    Jim

    the amx0035 is in a phase 3 trial Phoenix and is applying for expanded access also which you could qualify for potentially