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Medication Combinations Can Mimic ALS Symptoms
Posted by Syed (Ontario, Canada) on 10/04/2015
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ALS -I lost my right hand movements ( called motor skills). I was taking 40mg of Lipitor for quite some time.
Medication Combinations Can Mimic ALS Symptoms
Posted by Meghan (Brooklyn, Ny) on 12/02/2009
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My father was recently diagnosed with ALS. I still have that hope that it might not be true. He takes both diabetic medicines and cholesterol meds. Can you by any chance find out what her medications were that she was taking? And how they figured out that the combo of meds were doing it to her body?
Medication Combinations Can Mimic ALS Symptoms
Posted by Heather (Sudbury, Ontario, Canada) on 10/22/2009
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Many people who are on a combination of
diabetic medications and cholesterol medication find that they develop symptoms that mimic Lou Gehrig's Disease.
I know of at least 5 women in my town who have been mis-diagnosed by their doctors. One had gotten to the point of all her muscles collapsing and her lungs and heart were stopping working. Luckily, a new young surgeon at the hospital's emerg. department realized what was happening and took her off the cholesterol medication. She went from almost comatose to up in a wheelchair in 3 days, and walking by day 5. Apparently diabetic medications or cholesterol medications by themselves are fine, it's the combination that's terrible.
