Guest guest Posted May 17, 2003 Report Share Posted May 17, 2003 Hi le: I'm 31 and was diagnosed with CMT when I was 2. So, your child can be diagnosed once he starts walking, I believe... Best Wishes, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 19, 2003 Report Share Posted May 19, 2003 In a message dated 5/16/2003 6:49:02 PM Pacific Standard Time, ML572@... writes: > Hi le: > > I'm 31 and was diagnosed with CMT when I was 2. So, your child > can be diagnosed once he starts walking, I believe... > > Best Wishes, > I know for my 3 CMT kids they couldn't walk on their tip toes without bending their knees. That was the tell tell sign. They were all past 4 when this occurred. It does my heart good to see my last child age 6 tip toe on a wet floor or hot side walk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 23, 2006 Report Share Posted January 23, 2006 Hi Mom, I had the same question about my son Adam when he was little. I wondered if the CMT had changed types from me to him. I was told it did not morph into other types but it can reduplicate its self. The severity of the CMT if I understood it correctly depends on how many duplications of the gene. With Adam he would have more duplications because his CMT is more active. My daughter would have less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 23, 2006 Report Share Posted January 23, 2006 Um, I'm not a geneticist but that doesn't sound right to me. You can only have one duplication of the PMP22 gene (i.e. CMT1A) unless both parents have CMT...then, I guess you could have two duplications -- one from the father and one from the mother. So basically you have one code that works and one that doesn't. It depends on how confused your body gets (and lots of other factors) as to how poorly it translates the bad code. I could be completely off here... MommyToAdam@... wrote: > Hi Mom, > > I had the same question about my son Adam when he was little. I > wondered if the CMT had changed types from me to him. I was told it did > not morph into other types but it can reduplicate its self. The > severity of the CMT if I understood it correctly depends on how many > duplications of the gene. With Adam he would have more duplications > because his CMT is more active. My daughter would have less. > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 23, 2006 Report Share Posted January 23, 2006 In a message dated 1/23/2006 7:04:39 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, klhavlik@... writes: Um, I'm not a geneticist but that doesn't sound right to me. You can only have one duplication of the PMP22 Ok I must have totally misunderstood the person at Childrens. Just forget what I said. I was in some kind of shock when they were talking to me . LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 24, 2006 Report Share Posted January 24, 2006 Hey, the medical guys seems to get it wrong quite often as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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