Newcomer
Kent Skov (kentskov(AT)msn.com)
Tue, 8 Apr 97 03:06:41 UT
Hey Everyone!
Very glad to learn you are all here and helping each other. Much like Kara,
my TM began 5 months ago - first urinary retention (did you ever think you'd
be discussing your pee habits with the world?), then numbness in the legs,
then sudden "electrical" pain down my back, and, within hours, paralysis from
the waist down. Used and abused for 10 days in the hospital, I begged for
rehab and recovered well - until I had a complete relapse (which "doesn't
happen") in mid-Feb. They ordered me back to the hospital and I said no - did
you know that you could say no to doctors? I didn't. Sure enough, they set
me up with my IV Solumedrol at home, and now I'm starting from scratch -
learning to walk for the second time in six months. Questions: I have none
of the pain that everybody's talking about, just the numbness from the waist
down and that lovely Saran-Wrap-wrapped-tightly-around-my-legs feeling. I
know MS responds negatively to heat. Anybody experience that with TM? I am
most interested in the ups and downs we all experience, seemingly for no
reason. I can't detect a pattern. I'm trying herbs, vitamins, Chinese meds
as well as Zoloft and Vicodin. Massage keeps the circulation going. I too
have experienced slow healing of cuts on feet. They say mine is post-viral.
My question is, how do they know the virus is gone? How do we turn off an
over-active immune system? Why are our bodies attacking ourselves?
Love to all, especially Jim
Julienne