Trevor Bower

Since being diagnosed I have started to keep track of changes. As I progressed my sleep seems to be in two hour bursts. Leg cramps and need to empty my bladder. Needless to say, I am exhausted all the time. I can’t “catch up on sleep” no matter what I’ve tried. One item that seems to help the bladder issue is eating a bowl of popcorn before…[Read more]

So many ideas are floating around tonight. I was told by a prominent ALS doctor that I didn’t have one of the “S” diseases years ago. He said that was the good news. Years later after going through lots of tests and enrolling me in the Undiagnosed Disease Network I came through without an answer.  I still struggled on. That same doctor this past…[Read more]

My ALS team at Duke told me to slow down.” If you keep doing what you’re doing now you  will go down faster.”  It’s hard to quit doing what you have been used to doing all your life, but you have to listen to their wisdom. You can be there for your daughter but you need to get some additional assistance from friends, neighbors and professional o…[Read more]

Mark,

Thanks for your insight and thoughtful comments about ALS. I can echo what you said. I’ve been through three medical systems here in North Carolina. They couldn’t figure it out, so the Duke doctors enrolled me in the Undiagnosed Disease Network. So many lab tests, exams, MRI’s and on and on  including two different universities  DNA A…[Read more]

Dagmar, most of my muscle twitching occurs when I’m in bed and lying ng flat on my back. If the twitching continues  I roll on my side and it seems to stop. Is this problem a positional issue with the alignment of my spine?

I would be interested if I knew more details about the study.

I can completely understand the struggle to keep positive. I’ve struggled for eight years with an “unknown issue” that slowly decreased my ability to walk. I’ve had every neurological test known to the best neurologists at Duke.  Dr. Bedlack finally enrolled me in the Undiagnosed Network, UDN. The UDN group could not come up with a reason why my…[Read more]

Is there a definite correlation between insulin signaling and expressions of ALS? What if the ALS is not correlated with genetics? Is this possible?