Myasthenia Gravis Support Group
Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a neuromuscular disease leading to fluctuating muscle weakness and fatiguability. The hallmark of myasthenia gravis is muscle weakness that increases during periods of activity and improves after periods of rest. Although myasthenia gravis may affect any voluntary muscle, muscles that control eye and eyelid movement, facial expression, and...
Good luck!
* See your doctor - preferably your Neuro - as soon as possible. *
* If these symptoms do not calm down? *
* Do not be afraid to seek an ambulance ride, to the ER. Do not have your wife drive you, to the ER. They will stick you, in a corner, for hours. *
* Did you have a change in meds, recently? Or a change in dosage? *
* With many MG patients, MG does not appear alone. Many of us have secondary conditions, along with the MG. * Along with MG, I also have cramp-fasciculation syndrome. It is even rarer than MG. The symptoms you are describing: are exactly my symptoms, when the condition is not under control with meds.
** Understand: I am not telling you, that you have CFS or some other ailment. I'm just using myself, as an example. (A CFS attack, can be successfully treated, in an ER - with quickly-staged doses of Ativan, also known as lorazepam.) **
Let us know what they say too please :)
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