LGMD “SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW” Name: Andrea Age: 24 yrs. old Country: United States LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2A – a form of Calpainopathy At what age were you diagnosed: I was diagnosed at the age of 11. What were your first symptoms: At
LGMD “SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW” Name: Melissa Age: 32 yrs. old Country: United States LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2A (A form of Calpainopathy) At what age were you diagnosed: I was diagnosed at the age of 26. What were your first symptoms: When I
LGMD “Spotlight Interview” Name: Heidi Age: 50 years old Country: United States LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2E At what age were you diagnosed: I was diagnosed at the age of 33. What were your first symptoms: I was often stiff and sore,
LGMD “Spotlight interview” Name: Dan Age: 40 Yrs. Old Country: United States LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2i At what age were you diagnosed: I was diagnosed at the age of 30. What were your first symptoms: My first symptom was leg weakness.
LGMD “Spotlight interview” Name: Nicole Age: 24 yrs. old Country: United States LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD 2A / Calpainopathy At what age were you diagnosed: I was diagnosed around 12 years old. What were your first symptoms: My very first symptoms
LGMD “SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW” Name: Rodrigo Age: 29 yrs. old Country: United States LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2B / Myoshi Myopathy At what age were you diagnosed: I was diagnosed with LGMD2B at the age of 24. What were your first symptoms: My
LGMD “Spotlight Interview” Name: Aric Age: 22 yrs. old Country: United States LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2B At what age were you diagnosed: I was diagnosed at the age of 21. What were your first symptoms: My first symptoms were not
LGMD “Spotlight Interview” NAME: Mackenzie AGE: 22 yrs. old Country: USA LGMD Sub-Type: Unknown AT WHAT AGE WERE YOU DIAGNOSED: I was just diagnosed last year at the age of 21. WHAT WERE YOUR FIRST SYMPTOMS: My first symptoms included
LGMD “SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW” Name: Mandine Age: 31 Country: France LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2A / Calpainopathy At what age were you diagnosed: I was diagnosed with at the age of 8 years and then received confirmation that is was
LGMD “SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW” Name: Majed Age: 20 Country: Syria / Germany LGMD Sub-type: LGMD2C AT WHAT AGE WERE YOU DIAGNOSED: I was diagnosed at age 8. WHAT WERE YOUR FIRST SYMPTOMS: The symptoms began to appear when I
LGMD “Spotlight Interview” Name: Anne Age: 56 yrs. old Country: United States LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2A – also known as Calpainopathy At what age were you diagnosed: For having Muscular Dystrophy, I was diagnosed around 4 years of age. The specific
LGMD “SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW’ NAME: Anamaria AGE: 25 years old COUNTRY: Romania LGMD Sub-type: LGMD2A / Calpainopathy At what age were you diagnosed: I was diagnosed this year by the genetic testing of ”whole exome sequencing”. What were your
LGMD SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW Name: Zia Age: 26 Country: Australia LGMD Sub-Type: Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy type 2i AT WHAT AGE WERE YOU DIAGNOSED: I was diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy at the age of two. After many tests and doctor visits, I
LGMD “SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW” Name: Ralph AGE: 58 Yrs. Old Country: United States LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2L / Anoctaminopathy At what age were you diagnosed: I started having symptoms at age 47, back in 2006 and was diagnosed by 2011 when
LGMD “Spotlight Interview” – A Mother’s Perspective Mother’s Name: Aleksandra Country: The Netherlands Son’s LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2D
NAME: Younis AGE: 14 yrs. old COUNTRY: Syria LGMD SUB-TYPE: LGMD 2C
LGMD Spotlight Interview Name: Jill Age: 33 yrs. old Country: United States LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2i
LGMD “Spotlight Interview” Name: Deceena Age: 31 yrs. old Country: USA LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2A – also known as Calpainopathy
LGMD “SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW” Name: Fred Age: 36 yrs. old Country: United States LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2A / Calpainopathy
LGMD “SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW” Name: Vicki Age: 44 yrs. old Country: Canada LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2A / Calpainopathy
LGMD “SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW” Name: Kourtney Age: 23 yrs. old Country: USA LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2B / Miyoshi Myopathy
LGMD “Spotlight Interview” Name: Becky Age: 35 yrs. old Country: USA LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2B
LGMD “SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW” Name: Lori Age: 47 yrs. old Country: United States LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2i
LGMD “SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW” NAME: Hillary AGE: 32 yrs. old COUNTRY: USA LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2A / Calpainopathy
LGMD “SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW” Name: Monkol AGE: 38 Country: United States LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2G (also known as Telethoninopathy)
LGMD “Spotlight Interview” Name: Karen Age: 54 Yrs. old Country: USA LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD 2I
LGMD “SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW” Name: Felix Age: 35 yrs. old Country: Brazil LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2A / Calpainopathy
LGMD “ Spotlight Interview” Name: Asher Age: 10 yrs. old Country: New Zealand LGMD Sub-Type: Unknown
LGMD “SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW” Name: Ben Age: 23 yrs. old Country: Hong Kong LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2A / Calpainopathy
Name: Nicole AGE: 37 COUNTRY: United States LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD 2J (Titinopathy)
Name: Ralph Age: 24 yrs. old Country: South Africa LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2B
LGMD SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW Name: Amanda Age: 34 Country: Canada LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2C
LGMD “Spotlight Interview” NAME: Jill AGE: 42 COUNTRY: USA LGMD Sub-Type: autosomal dominant Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (LMNA mutation/LGMD1B) AT WHAT AGE WERE YOU DIAGNOSED: I was diagnosed when I was 4 years old. WHAT WERE YOUR FIRST SYMPTOMS: I was
LGMD SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW NAME: Karin AGE: 53 COUNTRY: United States LGMD Sub Type: Unknown AT WHAT AGE WERE YOU DIAGNOSED? I had been having problems years before my diagnosis. It wasn’t until I hit 40 that my life began to
LGMD “SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW” Name: Darlene Age: 65 yrs. old Country: United States LGMD Sub-Type: Non-Dysferlin Miyoshi Myopathy At what age were you diagnosed: I was diagnosed at the age of 64. What were your first symptoms: In retrospect,
LGMD Spotlight Interview Name: Cecilia AGE: 36 years Country: Argentina LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2A/Calpainopathy At what age were you diagnosed? I was diagnosed when I was 12 years old. What were your first symptoms: I began walking on my toes.
LGMD “Spotlight Interview” Name: Keisha Age: 31 yrs. old Country: United States LGMD Sub-Type : Unknown At what age were you diagnosed: I was diagnosed about 5 years ago at the age of 25-26. What were your first symptoms:
LGMD “SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW” Name: Andrea Age: 42 yrs. old Country: United States LGMD Sub-Type: Collagen 6 Congenital MD (Intermediate on the spectrum between Bethlem and Ullrich CMD) AT WHAT AGE WERE YOU DIAGNOSED: I was first diagnosed at age 6
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LGMD “Spotlight Interview” Name: Brenda Age: 55 yrs. old Country: United States LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2A – also known as Calpainopathy At what age were you diagnosed: I was diagnosed when I was 50 years old. What were your first
LGMD “Spotlight Interview” Name: Adriana Age: 48 years old Country: Argentina LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2B WHAT AGE WERE YOU DIAGNOSED: I was diagnosed at the age 20. WHAT WERE YOUR FIRST SYMPTOMS: My first symptoms included: difficulty climbing stairs, tiredness,
LGMD “SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW” Name: Nitesh Age: 27 years old Country: India LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD (sub-type unknown) At what age were you diagnosed: I was diagnosed at the age of 10. What were your first symptoms: My first symptoms included:
LGMD “SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW” Name: Amie Age: 31 yrs old Country: United States LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2J (Titinopathy) At what age were you diagnosed: I was just diagnosed at the age of 31 with LGMD2J – also known as Titinopathy. What
LGMD SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW Name: Anna Age: 36 yrs. old Country: Canada LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2I At what age were you diagnosed: I was initially diagnosed with a “non- specific muscle myopathy when I was a young child (sometime in grade
LGMD “SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW” NAME: Michele AGE: 52 Yrs. Old COUNTRY: United States LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2A – Calpainopathy AT WHAT AGE WERE YOU DIAGNOSED: I was initially diagnosed with an unspecified form of muscular dystrophy at the age of
LGMD “Spotlight interview” Name: Kelci Age: 23 yrs. old Country: Australia LGMD Sub-Type (if known): LGMD2J – Titinopathy At what age were you diagnosed: I was just recently diagnosed at the age of 23. What were your first symptoms:
LGMD “Spotlight Interview” Name: Tony Age: 32 Country: United States LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD2i AT WHAT AGE WERE YOU DIAGNOSED: I was diagnosed with LGMD around the age of 26 at the Cleveland Clinic and then officially diagnosed with 2i
LGMD “SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW” Name: Scott Age: 48 yrs. old Country: United States LGMD Sub-Type: LGMD 2L – also known as Anoctaminopathy At what age were you diagnosed: Although my MD began about 15 years ago, I was finally diagnosed recently
LGMD Spotlight interview: Name: Steven Age: 57 yrs. old Country: United States LGMD Sub-Type : LGMD (sub-type unknown) At what age were you diagnosed: I was diagnosed at the age of 43. What were your first symptoms: Vague
LGMD Spotlight interview – 09/02/2016 Name: Melanie Age: 29 yrs. old Country: Germany LGMD Sub-Type : LGMD2i (heterozygous type) At what age were you diagnosed: I was diagnosed at the age of 4 by having a muscle biopsy. What