oops what a reall mess, sorry, fellows 
I just maybe would not say nothing new, but in fact, most common medical consensus about 'how many time one should wait to be sure it is not ALS" is pretty well declared in forum sticky posts. it is average 4-6 month, standard follow up for 'just in case" is 6 month - 1 year. No weakness, clean EMG, good clinical exam - no ALS/MND, that's is. I personally do not think that any newest papers can shift that timeline or list of diagnostic criteria significantly, we may only maybe have new test methods added or maybe percentages refined slightly, becasue those terms and probabilities are developed on the basis of decades of clinical practie. I really do not expect that ALS would go same way as Turret syndrome (by the way it had its peak and seem now to be again relatively rare diagnosis as far as I know), or autistic disorders which had or have now certain diagnostic boom.And as for 'newest scientific information' which often seems to be to the contrary to common info, I would like to remind to all fellows, that often papers in medical journals are written for the purposes of further citation, or becasue grants were received and people need to report its usage, or for other purposes valuable only for the honorable paper authors but not for us poor hypochondircacs Therefore I mean that of course papers analysing most unusual cases of ALS or meta studies aimed to find correlation between breeding rabbits and risk of having ALS (or so) would be inevitable. And if each such paper would cost us another year of life becasue of further stress... dear fellows, I know it is hard but try to be as much critical as you can for your own safety.We here are community of twitchers. No one seemed to get ALS for over 14 years of existing of this board. Most (vastest majority) of us would be Ok, live long and die from common diseases in late age surounded, hopefully, by childern, grandchidlren and who knows maybe grandgrandchildren and their boy-or girlfriends from far far galaxies (maybe even tentacled ones). Who knows! This seems to be more probable outcome for me than any other.
I just maybe would not say nothing new, but in fact, most common medical consensus about 'how many time one should wait to be sure it is not ALS" is pretty well declared in forum sticky posts. it is average 4-6 month, standard follow up for 'just in case" is 6 month - 1 year. No weakness, clean EMG, good clinical exam - no ALS/MND, that's is. I personally do not think that any newest papers can shift that timeline or list of diagnostic criteria significantly, we may only maybe have new test methods added or maybe percentages refined slightly, becasue those terms and probabilities are developed on the basis of decades of clinical practie. I really do not expect that ALS would go same way as Turret syndrome (by the way it had its peak and seem now to be again relatively rare diagnosis as far as I know), or autistic disorders which had or have now certain diagnostic boom.And as for 'newest scientific information' which often seems to be to the contrary to common info, I would like to remind to all fellows, that often papers in medical journals are written for the purposes of further citation, or becasue grants were received and people need to report its usage, or for other purposes valuable only for the honorable paper authors but not for us poor hypochondircacs Therefore I mean that of course papers analysing most unusual cases of ALS or meta studies aimed to find correlation between breeding rabbits and risk of having ALS (or so) would be inevitable. And if each such paper would cost us another year of life becasue of further stress... dear fellows, I know it is hard but try to be as much critical as you can for your own safety.We here are community of twitchers. No one seemed to get ALS for over 14 years of existing of this board. Most (vastest majority) of us would be Ok, live long and die from common diseases in late age surounded, hopefully, by childern, grandchidlren and who knows maybe grandgrandchildren and their boy-or girlfriends from far far galaxies (maybe even tentacled ones). Who knows! This seems to be more probable outcome for me than any other.
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