RE: Greetings from Australia!
Lindstrom, Ann (annlindstrom(AT)lucent.com)
Fri, 9 Oct 1998 18:25:25 -0700
Craig and Shirley - I am so sorry you have had to go through
this ordeal! I think I took
probanthine in the early days of my TM, but can't remember any
eye problems. Keep us posted - Ann
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> From: Craig Foley[SMTP:craigj(AT)one.net.au]
> Sent: Friday, October 09, 1998 4:32 PM
> To: tmic-list(AT)eskimo.com
> Subject: Greetings from Australia!
>
> Greetings from Australia! The weather here in Sydney is very warm at
> the
> moment. Hope you are warm too! I am writing to you on behalf of my
> mother
> Shirley Foley, who has been a member of your association for around 2
> years. This, briefly, is her story. I hope you can help her, and
> that in
> some way that her story is of benefit to others.
>
> "My name is Shirley Foley, from the Central Coast of New South Wales
> in
> Australia. I am a new subscriber to this forum. My brief history
> with
> T.M. is as follows.
>
> In October, 1996 I was not feeling well, suffering with terible back
> pain.
> Eventually I had an M.R.I.(T3-T11). I was diagnosed as having
> Tranverse
> Myelitis. I spent 9 days in hospital, and after 6 months of
> physiotherapy
> I was almost back to normal.
>
> In March, 1997 I had a second attack. I was completely paralysed from
> the
> waist down. This time I spent 28 days in hospital, before going to a
> rehab
> unit of another hospital for the next 5 months. Released from rehab,
> I
> came home taking the following medication: BACLOFEN, DANTRIUM, VALIUM,
> ENDEP, ZOCOR, MINIPRESS, COLXYL 120, COLOXYL with SENNA, PANAMAX and
> SORBILAX.
>
> To improve my bladder function my doctor prescribed PROBANTHINE.
> After 12
> days I began to lose the sight in one eye. I stopped taking
> probanthine
> and the sight gradually returned, taking a month to become normal
> again. A
> week later the sight in the same eye went again. I was told that this
> was
> called OPTIC NEURITIS. This was 9 months ago, and there has been no
> subsequent improvement.
>
> In September, 1998 my doctor started me on PROBANTHINE again, assuring
> me
> that it had nothing to do with my eye problems. I once again took it
> for
> 12 days, and I began having hot sweats and great pain in my back,
> followed
> by weakness in my legs. L ast week i was readmitted to Gosford
> Hospital,
> and was subsequently diagnosed as having Multiple Sclerosis.
>
> My question is this. Has anybody had similar reactions with
> probanthine,
> or any of the other drugs mentioned?
>
> Thanks,
> Shirley."
>
>