Lou Gehrig's disease
2006-07-26 13:21:31 · 8 answers · asked by velvettrees 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
ALS is not curable. The only way it could not eventually kill you is if something else beat it to the punch.
2006-07-26 13:26:54 · answer #1 · answered by Speedo Inspector 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dr. Lange at Mt. Sinai Medical School in New York reported that he had a patient who had survived ALS for 20 years and was still going strong. Author Cheryl Carter has interviewed many people who haved lived with ALS for 7-15 years and prefer to think of themselves as people with disabilities, rather than as people with a fatal disease.
That's enough to persuade me that there are survivors.
2006-07-26 20:36:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not here in the USA.If your looking for a cure or other possibilities to lessen this disease I would look to other countries.They are way ahead of the US on many diseases.They have many cures for things there that we don't have here.Do some research on the Internet about it.Most counties do not have the FDA to deal with.Good Luck!
2006-07-26 20:29:57 · answer #3 · answered by Lisa M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It is always fatal. The longest surviving victim of ALS is the renown scientist Stephen Hawking.
2006-07-26 20:25:26 · answer #4 · answered by Albannach 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Stephen Hawking, physicist and author of A Brief History of Time, has ALS and is alive and brilliant.
2006-07-26 20:27:05 · answer #5 · answered by Giuleah 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can live with ALS for quite a long time, but it eventually kills you when it paralyzes your respiratory muscles. Once they're gone, you can't recover.
2006-07-26 20:30:10 · answer #6 · answered by medrecgal1973 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ALS has no known cure it gets progressively worse
2006-07-26 20:24:41 · answer #7 · answered by Lorraine H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, it kills you eventually.
2006-07-26 20:24:23 · answer #8 · answered by miketorse2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋