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A member asked:
Would als just present in 10 days?random muscle twitches,and now arm feels heavy.
4 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
ALS time frame: No, if your symptoms are only 10 days old, that is probably not ALS. It takes a long time to develop the symptoms of ALS, and sometimes the diagnosis takes a long time to make. It seems likely there is some other cause to your condition.
Answered 11/28/2017
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Pattern: ALS is a chronic indolent, insidious, progressive disorder, and your muscle twitches, and arm symptoms would be better correlated with your description of "spinal cord compression".
Answered 1/3/2015
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