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> From: JHarper33(AT)aol.com[SMTP:JHarper33(AT)aol.com]
> Sent: December 24, 1998 10:33 PM
> To: rubyjax(AT)teleport.com
> Cc: tmic-list(AT)eskimo.com
> Subject: Re: Chronic Progressive TM [long]
>
> In a message dated 12/23/98 5:48:35 PM EST, rubyjax(AT)teleport.com
> writes:
>
> > Does this make sense to anyone? [I hope I explained it okay]
> >
> > Smiles, Jackie
> >
>
> Makes perfect sense! Thanks for sharing.
> Many of my symptoms are similar to yours, though not as severe. I,
> too, have
> had flare-ups of old symptoms and occasionally new areas of numbness
> or
> tingling, and was told, basically, that my nervous system was
> over-sensitive
> to stimuli because of TM. I haven't had another MRI since the first
> one three
> years ago, and have occasionally wished I could, just to see if
> anything is
> different. The MRI three years ago did not show a lesion, but a TM
> diagnosis
> was made on the basis of symptoms and ruling out other diseases.
>
> A question just came to mind -- they did a myelogram on me first (it
> was Labor
> Day week-end and they had no one in to run the MRI), where they inject
> dye to
> look at the vertebrae to see if there were any bone problems that
> could've
> been causing my symptoms. When they did do the MRI, they just did it
> on my
> brain. Would the myelogram have shown lesions, if there were any?
>
> Barbara H.
>