The week or so before I "got" TM, I experienced weakness that would come and go,
usually withing a few hours. The pain-like symptoms I experienced was more like
clamps on the ends of my hands and toes. I hope this helps answer your questions.
One of the most difficult things about TM is all of the unanswered questions!
Nice to talk to you ;-)
Mykella
arees wrote:
> JADE98FW(AT)aol.com wrote:
> There were no warning signs-it happened
> I'm wondering if most of you had warning
> > signs of TM coming on? I really didn't. My mom said that I acted a little
> > strange the day before I got it. Normally a wild kid, I was very quiet. We
> > went sledding on the day before, and when my mom went to help me with my snow
> > suit, I complained a lot. She's wondering if I was starting to experience
> > some pain from TM then. The only pain I had was back pain.
>
> Hello Lauren, I was much older (41) when I got TM, but like you had no
> real warning signs. The day before I had some pretty sharp back pain,
> but I attributed it to the fact that I had played 18 holes of golf in
> the morning and in the afternoon had lifted 3 - 30 ft garage walls
> helping my dad and others in building a new garage. I had thrown my back
> out a couple of times before and thought I had just over done it. The
> next morning I went to work on a Mon. and seemed fine until about 8:00
> a.m. when I felt a numbing in my buttocks. soon severe pain shot down
> through my legs, It felt like hot pokers being shot down my legs, which
> lasted about 10 to 15 min. then I was left with no feeling from the
> waist down! In listening to the list it seems like everyone is a little
> different in how they contacted TM. Well you seem to have grown up and
> handled eveything pretty well, I too have just got hand controls
> installed on my s-10 pick-up and am back to working full time! Hang in
> there and welcome to the list!!!
> Alan