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In a message dated 8/16/98 1:48:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Gunny0011
writes:
<< If you ever notice in the winter time how your driveway or stoop in front
of your house will heave, it's because the cold causes the ground underneath
the concrete to heave, and tighten, That's the same principal appiled to our
nervous system. It gets cold, and tells the muscles to contract, therefore
making it more difficult to move. In the summer time when everything returns
to normal, the drivewau, and or stoop will recover. That's because the ground
is not frozen anymore, and the earth can move according to the temperature.
Same principal applies to us. When we're warm, our muscles are relaxed, and
we
can move easier. Very simple process. >>
Hi Gunny...
I love your definition... Unfortunately, we don't get to watch our stoops
swell in California... Sure would be fun to watch tho... hehehehe! We just
watch the earth move and run for the doorways!!!! ROFL!!! τΏτ Funny
but your description is also a "very tiny" portion of my theory on
earthquakes... Of all the the major quakes I've experienced in So. Cal, and
there have been ALOT, the conditions have all been very similar.... VERY cold
weather a few days before a 'big one'... then very rapidly, the temperature
changed to VERY, VERY HOT.....Some old Californian's call it "Earthquake
Weather".... Similar to dropping an ice cube in warm water....
hmmmm..... hot to cold....cold to hot...Wish it was just my muscles
contracting, because my CNS actually swells at T-10... leaving me unable to
feel, control movement, etc.
After an episode like this sometimes it takes months to walk again (with lots
of PT & Prednisone....) But you are so right, I do recover slowly....
<<Because of the way our Nervous System has been altered, cold weather, cold
water, cold air, will cause our muscles to contract. It doesn't necessarily
mean that TM has reoccured.>>
I wonder, so is this the nature of TM? Do the temperature changes cause the
CNS to swell and go down.. swell and go down?...Or in others, is it just
their
muscles? Does that happen to all of us? Could it be that this 'climate
thing' is a part of TM all the time and not considered a true reoccurance?
Now, you can tell I am a total newbie...I still have sooooo many questions
about this thing we all have.... Until I found this list, I was the only one
I
knew with TM....and answers were hard to come by...(even for the doctors....)
I know the doctors labeled my TM 'reoccuring' because the spinal swelling
would go down...partial movement and feeling would return... then something
inside (my environment/or body) would trigger the CNS to swell again....and
that was it.. back to square one...Maybe this really isn't a
reoccurance....Do
many others experience this same thing? This is where research and
information would be soooooo valuable to us....THANK GOODNESS for this
list!!!!! It is a true blessing from above!
Janie
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My personal thoughts about reoccurance of tm is that it's due to
aggrevating the underlying cause and creating a worsening of symptoms. This
doesn't apply to all cases.
In my situation,when I slightly reinjure a previous injury in my back,it
creates a worsening of symptoms. So the inflammation reoccurs(with
accompanying swelling) and the auto-immune process begins to start. I do keep
a close watch and am careful not to reinjure. But if I do aggravate the injury
and start feeling the symptoms worsening,I cease physical activity until the
symptoms wane. They do and it takes two or three days depending on the
severity of the reinjury.
Phil (reinjury in this case would mean a disturbance of the old
injury site
my definition)