More questions
JHarper33(AT)aol.com
Fri, 14 Feb 1997 09:12:33 -0500 (EST)
It's been right at a year and a half since the onset of TM for me, and
I've had improvement in many areas, especially mobility, but one area (pain
in back) that is worse, and new symptoms: sporadic numbness in new places,
eye problems (flashes, blurriness, grey or "shaded" areas, all sporadic), and
the "jolt" in the back of the head and other odd sensations there, which I
mentioned on the list before (thanks, everyone, for the responses to that. It
REALLY helped to know I wasn't the only one with that!) Most recently I've
had ringing in one ear, but that may be due to a new medicine (Tegretol). I
saw the neurologist last week and he said we could pursue the possibility of
MS, or try different drugs and see if anything helped (which I've resisted
til now). He said he thought the TM had "altered" my nervous system and
that's why I was having new, weird, off-and-on symptoms.
Has anyone else experienced new symptoms like this long after the
original TM?
Are there any other diseases it could be, and could anything be done about it
other than trying different drugs?
I did ask about stroke and trans-ischemic attacks. In a Reader's Digest
article in Nov. there was an article about those. I read about it while in
the opthamologist's waiting room, and it described perfectly a sensation I'd
been having: that of a shade being pulled over the vision. I hadn't quite
known how to describe it. It's only for seconds at a time. I asked the neuro.
about that; he didn't think that was what I was experiencing.
Thanks!
Barbara