Featured Patient Story

Dylan Duncan

My mom, aunt and grandmother all died of Hereditary Amyloidosis. I was about 10 years old when I was first exposed to the devastating effects of the disease and it lived with my family and I until I was 17. Time passed after my mom died and at the age of 26, I started to experience some numbing sensations in my arm and hands. I am an artist and I play guitar, so ordinarily I’d suspect these to be the cause. However, I knew that one of the symptoms of Amyloidosis was carpal tunnel syndrome and that my mom also had issues with her hands before she got sick.