When I was originally dx'd I was told just that. GB goes up
and TM down.
Roger
MARY L MAXWELL wrote:
> Guillian-Barre progress up the body TM does not. They are "cousins" and
> usallu the Doctor rules one of them out by spinal tap. Mary
> mlmohm(AT)prodigy.net
>
> ----------
> > From: Marsden51(AT)aol.com
> > To: tmic-list(AT)eskimo.com
> > Subject: Re: steriods
> > Date: Sunday, October 12, 1997 7:19 PM
> >
> > In a message dated 97-10-10 13:45:43 EDT, you write:
> >
> > << I'm not a doctor, this is just what I have been told by doctors and in
> my
> > reading. I also had thought that Guillian-Barre syndrome was a close
> cousin
> > to TM - for some
> > inexplicable reason the immune system attacks the myelin sheath of the
> > peripheral nerves instead of the spinal cord. >>
> >
> > Joyce:
> >
> > Just a comment:
> > I know a man who had an attack of Guillian-Barre syndrome and recovered
> after
> > several months. Ten years later his younger brother was diagnosed with
> MS.
> >
> > Sharon Marsden
> >