In March of 2008, I began experiencing strange onset of symptoms. I noticed that my jaw would start to tire (the muscles in my jaw and mouth weakened) after about a minute of so, while chewing food and speaking. I began having trouble controlling the movement of my tongue. I attributed this odd behavior jaw to general a cold, brushed it off, and waited to see if the symptoms persisted after I got back home. Upon retuning back to Toronto, my symptoms became oddly worse – I had little to no jaw/tongue muscle power – I could only manage to speak or chew for about 2s at a time and had to rest my jaw/tounge to regain any muscle use. Moreover, I cold not lift my neck up from a horizontal position. Soon thereafter, I a had several choking episodes as my throat muscles stopped firing as well. Well, I was terrified and suspected everything from stroke, to seizures. After 10 separate diagnoses in-and-out of various hospitals, clinics and specialist, I had no answer. I had lost 20l