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Is it true fasciculations in the tongue usually means als? can you have myokymia in the tongue?
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ALS: Fasiculations in the tongue is a sign for ALS. This is because ALS is a combination of central and peripheral nerve disease. Myokymia is a muscle based definition, and can sometims be normal and as such usually does not effect the tongue, which is controlled by a cranial nerve. Tongue fascinations alone do not mean ALS, and further testing is necessary.
Answered 4/24/2015
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Tongue fascics & ALS: If you have fascics in the tongue, you have changes in the tongue muscle or nerve supply to the tongue. It would be unusual for this to be the only symptom or sign of ALS. Physicians may look at a person's tongue for this sign when they have symptoms of weakness elsewhere.
Answered 5/16/2016
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Tongue fasciculations for one year. Teo clean emg's. What are the odds of it being bulbar ALS? No other symptoms.
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Many doctors online has claimed that benign fasciculations can't occour in the tongue (it's always als). Why is this?
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Last questions. Once you have fasciculations, can an emg be done to soon? Is occasional tongue fasciculations signs of als?
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I have occasional fasciculation on same small area of my tongue.I can feel it and see it. It lasts maybe 10-20 minutes or hour then stops. Appears again weeks, months later or few days in a row. Of course, I am scared of als. Are there benign causes?
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