Myasthenia Gravis News Community › Forums › Newly Diagnosed › What is your most debilitating symptom? › Reply To: What is your most debilitating symptom?

  • Community Member

    Member

    Currently, and for about a year now, my worst symptoms are with chewing, swallowing and speaking. I’m always done chewing before I’m finished eating, and I slur and drool occasionally. Although generalized muscle weakness persists in varying degrees, my overall ADL scores are as low as they’ve ever been.

    Certainly my symptoms have fluctuated since onset, but they’ve always impacted my eating and speaking in some way.

    I often describe to others that having generalized muscle weakness feels like I just completed a workout; or that I’m not tired I just feel “spent”; or I feel like I’ve got voltage but not enough current…