Muscualar Dystrophy - anyone in the family have this?

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We learned yesterday night that Charlie's Paternal Grandmother, (my

Mother in Law)has been Dx with Muscular Dystrophy. In two weeks we

will know the exact type. I am confident because I have watched her

eat in slow motion and choke and tears would come out of her eyes for

10 years. B*tched and begged her sons and husband take her to a

neurologist. What kind of doctor cannot look at that woman and see

there is a problem is beyond me. Everyone outside of their family

would ask me what he heck was wrong with her.

Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD): Symptoms of OPMD are

confined to weakness in the muscles controlling the eyes and throat.

Symptoms include drooping eyelids and difficulty swallowing

(dysphagia). The weakness progresses to other muscles of the face and

neck, and can occasionally affect the upper parts of the legs.

Dysphagia can cause food or saliva to enter the airways,

called " aspiration, " which can cause pneumonia.

Anyway, do any of you have family members with this MD or this type

of MD? With Charlie having Hypotonia of the mouth, born with

tortocollis, I am just puzzled at if he woudl have this or not.

It says MD can be passed from Mother to child. So I think he woudl be

safe, my husband has a 50% chance it looks like.

Thanks!

Colleen