Re: can anyone help me
AZMAINIAC (AZMAINIAC(AT)prodigy.net)
Fri, 22 May 1998 17:56:57 -0700
Jenny,
What do they call the guy who graduates last in medical school? Doctor!
I have been to many doctors in my lifetime. If they admit that they don't
know about something, even if it is in their field, they are good ones.
There are some who beat around the bush and will give you any answer
except, "I don't know."(YOUR DOCTOR! His M. D. stands for Mentally
Deficient.)
With your symptoms there is something wrong and I am not an M.D.. I am not
that familiar with it, but check out Guillain-Barre Syndrome(GBS). I
believe it affects the peripheral nervous system.
When I was hospitalized 26 years ago, that is what the nurse's told me I
had because there had been a patient there about a year before with GBS.
There is a fine line between GBS and TM.
I did not find out that it was TM until 6 years later when I saw the Chief
of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital That I had TM.
Don't give up. There are some idiot M.D's out there.
John
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> From: jenny <mullen(AT)mistral.co.uk>
> To: tmic-list(AT)eskimo.com
> Subject: can anyone help me
> Date: Thursday, May 21, 1998 11:41 AM
>
> I hope someone can help me, I am crying out for help at the moment, let
me
> first explain all that has been going on. A week before Christmas last
year
> I lost feeling in my right leg from the knee down which rapidly went to
> below the waist, I saw a neurologist who said there was nothing wrong and
I
> was depressed. it happened again in February and went to T6 level I went
to
> a hospital in London who again said they didn't know what was wrong and
my
> reflexes were fine sent me home. I am still in a wheelchair but have
> regained some movement and feeling down to my waist, my G.P thinks I have
TM
> but says it is a difficult situation as the specialist says there is
nothing
> wrong, can you have TM and still have reflexes, I don't have a lesion on
the
> MRI and my spinal tap is clear can anyone shed some light on this
situation
>
> thanks
>
> Jenny