Hello
One of my biggest symptoms is the banding. Right under my right ribs, and often down my legs. I have been told it is part of the TM. There are days though when I wonder. The banding is sometimes so intense it takes my breath away. It also is quite bad around my knee, and my foot. As an aside, I am just coming out of a week of "quality bed rest time" as I apparently picked up a virus that got my TM to fire right up. Is this the beginning of another progression or does anyone know? The bright side to the whole episode is that the doctor on call that I saw actually is experienced with TM and jumped right on the symptoms I had and placed a call to a neurologist. (We are a bit isolated) She is treating a female patient with TM and understood a lot of the other symptoms I have. So, that is 3 of us in this town now. Janet From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 10, 2007 7:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [email protected] Subject: [TMIC] Re: banding Randy wrote about his doctor: "He doesn't believe that anything can be done about the banding. His only comment is that it is just another symptom. " I, too, have never gotten clear answers about this. My pains are minimal, but I've occasionally experienced the tight 'banding' on the lower right section of my rib cage. However, more often, it's less severe, and just feels sore as though I'm recovering from being kicked in the ribs. It's usually worse later in the day. But even more often, I feel a 'sore' type of pain just under my right ribs - almost like a cramp, towards the front - center of my body. For a long time, this was the only pain I experienced as everything else involved was totally numb. I even noticed it for a couple of days before the TM/paralysis hit. For the better part of a year, the neuro barely paid attention to my question, saying it was just part of the TM. Then the last time I asked her, she said I'd have to ask my regular doctor, as it had nothing to do with TM! (I interpret that as: 'I really have no idea and don't remember how I answered the last time you asked.') One of my concerns is that I may be ignoring something else that isn't part of TM. (I think it's in the area of my gallbladder, but then they checked everything in the ER when I first went in paralyzed w/TM, and I would think they would have caught it if it was a gallbladder problem.) Does my description just sound like 'banding', or different from what you folks experience? Sally
