ALS and why you DON'T have it!

[beatroon]

Fishmanpa, this is the thread I was trying to find the other day! It's really good, very normalising, and it helped loads when I was in the ALS rabbit hole. (Love that we now collectively have a name for it as we all fall down it in the same way!) Thanks for posting, I hope people get a lot of benefit from it.

[ErinKC]

This is a great post. Based on the statistics of diagnosis, it would be utterly remarkable if everyone on this forum who thought they had ALS really did. It would be a statistical anomaly worthy of international news! Just going through the first 5 page of the forum, 5 people are worried they have ALS. That would be 5 out of 60 people, when the actual instance is around 2 in 100,000. It would mean that there was an 8.3% change of someone on this forum having ALS vs. 0.002% chance in the general population.