I think I might have a fatal disease...

[Teyauna.]

Maybe you should go to the doctor's and get it checked out. Just in case. Even if it isn't it, it's good to be sure.

[Homesrfan]

If I keep getting these cramps, I'll tell her soon. These aren't growing cramps though. These feel... weird.
Thanks for the help everyone.

[efq]

I'm sure if you had got this disease, the last doctor appointment you had most doctors notice things randomly.
Also wouldn't you be feeling ill really aching NON-STOP. I'm sure there would of been earla signs if you had and people would of noticed. But ask HealthBoards.com their some professionals on their. I use it if I have a health question.
And visit your doctor when possible just for a check up. I'll bet he'll say your just growing up and its growing pains just take some neurofen or paracetemol and rest.
Also I sometimes worry about fatal diseases and start to shake and get worried. You should put something on tv you like and just forget it.

If I keep getting these cramps, I'll tell her soon. These aren't growing cramps though. These feel... weird.
Thanks for the help everyone.

[QuoteTheRaven]

I'm scared. Really scared. I can't think about anything else. My father had a disease called 'ALS' or Lou Gehrig's disease. The disease is 100% fatal with no cure, and he died when I was six years old. The disease slowly paralysis you, usually starting with your hands or feet, and eventually gets to your lungs and voice box causing you to talk strangely and not being able to breath without some kind of life support.

Over the past couple of years I have been developing painful foot cramps. This especially happends when I'm swimming, but it also happends just randomly. My toes or my entire foot will cramp up and I can barely walk on it. I've been reading the symptoms and that is definitely one of them. One of the others is a shortness of breath, which I have developed for a long time now. Sometimes, I'll just be sitting down and I'll noticed myself having to breath harder. Recently, at night, I've been trying to go to sleep only to be violently woken up gasping for breath. Another symptom is tripping, which I do a lot. This could just be from being clumsy, but I notice myself in the hallway walking akwardly. If there is someone is front of me, sometimes I try to go to my left, but my foot doesn't go out far enough so I do this akward kind of pause and almost a small pivot. It's strange and slightly embarrassing.

ALS is hereditary, but hereditary ALS only accounts for abou 5-10% of ALS cases. As far as I know, my father is the only one in our family that has had ALS.

At this point I've almost assured myself I have the disease, but I know I shouldn't think this way. I'm starting to become depressed and have had trouble going to sleep. My main delima is telling someone. I know I should, but its very complicated. I'm terrified to tell my mother because I really don't want to scare her like that. She has a terrible time when our father died and I'm scared at how she would react with myself having, or potentionally having the disease. I don't want to do something drastic... she seems depressed lately. I'm just really confused and scared, and I don't want to over react.

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[Digital]

I get cramp in my feet all the time... Could just be nothing don't worry

[ToMmO258]

No need for that really , if I were you i would go get it checked out with your local GP , its probably just growing pains , but only when u find out for sure will u stop worrying.

[e5]

Most definately, tell your mum you've been getting foot cramp and sometimes can't breath properly. Your mum may start by taking you to the doctors and it will carry on from there, all I can say from here is I wish you the best of luck with whatever happens!

[QuoteTheRaven]

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[e5]

I don't know where room came from, sorry it was meant to be mum.

I'd also like to ask you to get a grip.

[ToMmO258]

Whats the matter with people on here ? He clearly thinks he has a problem n so far hes been called a *Text Removed* and made fun of by a few people on this forum , im sure if you were in his shoes you would feel differently.

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