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Denise's story
I was originally diagnosed with LGMD (limb girdle muscular dystrophy) around the age of 18 years. I think my parents had known for some time that there was something not quite right as I did myself, but the process for getting a diagnosis seemed to take quite some time as there was no family history. I remember being told I had a variety of different conditions including SMA (spinal muscular atr…
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