>To be honest I am not even sure if I am spelling this correctly, but I'm told
>this is the definition of part of my experience in the first two days of my
>TM onset. Within hours I had become completely paralyzed from the waist
>down. Although I had no real definitive feeling, I had pain...especially on
>my legs themselves. It seem as if just having them covered with a hospital
>sheet was sending sheets of needles stabbing at me. Luckily this feeling
>subsided gradually within a day or two. Following this I began the slow
>climb back with small movements on the toes of one of my feet.
>
>Has anyone else started their attack with this feeling. From what I have
>been reading alot of people had a much slower progression at first so their
>experiences are somewhat different. What about other people who had the same
>kind of immediate progression as me...within a matter of two hours with no
>previous symptoms, I was completely paralyzed and the parastesis began.
>
>Regards to all,
>
>Gary K.
Gary, as you may have seen elsewhere, my attack came on VERY
suddenly. I had virtually no neurological symptoms but after going to bed
in one piece I awoke an hour and a half later with no leg movement.
For the first few days in hospital, despite roughly 180 mgm of
morphine per day I would almost go crazy if anyone even touched a hair on my
chest --not rubbing my chest but just rubbing the hair!!! That feeling
moved down to parallel my "lesion" (t6 to t12) for about the next eight
months --now with no analgesia of any sort (except maybe Zoloft--it really
does seem to have got better since I started it) I have none of these
feelings above about L1 --now my legs feel like they are "asleep" --pretty
annoying when it's 24 hours a day --but hey,, feeling is better than no
feeling --or is it? As long as maybe some functional movement can follow I
can tolerate this. --most of the time,,,
Bryan