re: McArdle's

Quoting test.my.gangsta!:" Yeah basically they would be a carrier.... How is McArdle’s Disease inherited? McArdle’s ... [snip!] ... family history may choose to undergo genetic counseling to help understand the risks of passing the gene on to their children. "

very, very interesting

Quoting Angel [Mariah's Mommy]:" very, very interesting"

This may be an odd way to look at it. But I've read a few articles about passing it on to kids. And one article relates it to as thought someone had sickle cell and that gave it a better understanding, at least for me it did.

Quoting test.my.gangsta!:" This may be an odd way to look at it. But I've read a few articles about passing it on to kids. And ... [snip!] ... one article relates it to as thought someone had sickle cell and that gave it a better understanding, at least for me it did."

I'll look that up for comparison too, thank you. I want to make sense of this before we decide when/if to have children. Because he was in serious pain, and I don't know if I want to set my children or grand children up for that. He swells, he can't move, the muscle tissue breaks down and goes through his kidney, which causes even more pain, then he urinates it out.

Quoting Angel [Mariah's Mommy]:" I'll look that up for comparison too, thank you. I want to make sense of this before we decide when/if ... [snip!] ... he can't move, the muscle tissue breaks down and goes through his kidney, which causes even more pain, then he urinates it out."

Well since you don't have it your kids will not, and the only way your grandkids would have it is if your kids got the recessive gene and then found someone else who was also the carrier and had kids

Quoting Angel [Mariah's Mommy]:" I'll look that up for comparison too, thank you. I want to make sense of this before we decide when/if ... [snip!] ... he can't move, the muscle tissue breaks down and goes through his kidney, which causes even more pain, then he urinates it out."

But sadly there are little to no studies in the US, all of them are in Canada.

Quoting test.my.gangsta!:" Well since you don't have it your kids will not, and the only way your grandkids would have it is if your kids got the recessive gene and then found someone else who was also the carrier and had kids"

I should probably see if I am a carrier, I'm sure someone in my family could have it, and not know. I don't know lol I should have paid attention in biology.

Quoting test.my.gangsta!:" But sadly there are little to no studies in the US, all of them are in Canada."

I noticed that too.

Quoting Angel [Mariah's Mommy]:" I should probably see if I am a carrier, I'm sure someone in my family could have it, and not know. I don't know lol I should have paid attention in biology."

Do you have brothers or sisters?

Quoting test.my.gangsta!:" Do you have brothers or sisters?"

I have a sister

Quoting Angel [Mariah's Mommy]:" I have a sister"

I looked at some punett crosses or whatever they are called and if you are a carrier, your 3rd and 4th children would have a 50% chance of having it.

Quoting test.my.gangsta!:" I looked at some punett crosses or whatever they are called and if you are a carrier, your 3rd and 4th children would have a 50% chance of having it."

Interesting..