Re: Nerves
Jo Ellen Finkelstein (ghellen(AT)ninenet.com)
Sun, 15 Mar 1998 01:04:26 -0600
JHarper33 wrote:
>
> When I began to experience "weird" sensations weeks after TM diagnosis, my
> neurologist said he thought the TM affected my nerves, making them more
> sensitive to stimuli. He specified that he was talking about the real, actual
> nerves and did not mean that I was a "nervous" person. But I also find that
> things seem to "get on my nerves" (in the way that that term is usually
> understood) more easily. I have a very hard time tolerating noise (either loud
> or persistent), bright or flashing lights, "busy" places of any kind. Those
> things would bother me in the past, anyway, but they seem to bother me more
> easily now some times. And I seem to have less patience...never a virtue I
> excelled in, anyway, but I seem to have even less of it now. I'm wondering if
> this has anything to do with TM or just getting older, as I do find
> characteristics like this in older people I know.
>
> BarbaraHi Barbara, Joellen here. I know what you mean about noises, I have
some neighbors upstairs that tend to crank up the bass on their stereo,
used to be that it wouldn't bother me at all but now it "gets on my last
nerve!" they also walk around so heavy that it sounds like a small herd
of elephants up there (know it's not cause it costs too much to have
pets here!) Oh well I do enjoy the time that they are at work
though!!!!