Re: Yet Another Question

Errol White (eamjwhite(AT)bigpond.com)
Wed, 18 Nov 1998 20:16:25 -0800

Hello Jane and all, I too are effected by the cold weather, especially from
the fault line down. (fault line is around the lesion area T6-T8.) Also
prolonged wet spells don't help either. I find in the winter months I need
to wear tracksuit type clothes.

Regards from Errol, Narangba Aust.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jane Dahl <dahl.j(AT)ghc.org>
To: tmic-list(AT)eskimo.com <tmic-list(AT)eskimo.com>
Date: Tuesday, 17 November, 1998 4:05 PM
Subject: Yet Another Question

>
>You've all been completely and absolutely wonderful responding to my
>questions. Thank you all for your responses. I hope you won't mind a
>couple more, though, that Maria suggested I post to the group.
>
>Does anyone else suffer from cold sensitivity? I've heard about heat
>bothering some, but I'm beginning to get REALLY uncomfortable with the
>cold weather setting in. And that seems a bit odd to me since it
>didn't seem to bother me much last year (first winter with TM). The
>cold makes my spine ache and sometimes makes my my legs and feet, not
>ache precisely, but uncomfortable. Which brings me to the second
>question. . .
>
>I always assumed that pain was one of the more immediate symptoms of
>TM, that if you didn't have it, it wasn't going to come. When I was
>diagnosed a year ago (5 months after onset of symptoms), I didn't have
>pain - just numbness and buzzy/tingle. In the last 3 or 4 months,
>I've been aware of an increasing number of episodes of pain as
>described above. The cold seems to be the frosting on the cake. Is
>this a normal sequence of events, or am I just bass ackwards?
>
>As always, thanks so much.
>
>Jane D.
>
>