Candis, I asked that question a while ago. I have had Crohn's disease for a few years now. When I went to my gastroenterologist after I was diagnosed with TM, she appeared to be quite concerned, which led me to believe that the Crohn's had something to do with my TM. She assured me that wasn't the case. I also had been receiving facet injections in my spine to insert cortisone. The injections were to relieve the pain caused by a bulging disc, pressing on a nerve. The injections were into the same site as my TM, C4. So of course I was very suspicious as to whether or not those injections caused me to have TM. Five days before I was rushed to the hospital by ambulance, I had suffered flulike symptoms. Within 20 minutes, I was totally paralyzed from the neck down. While in the hospital, one of the doctors that made the rounds, just happened to be the same doctor they gave me my facet injections. He was quite surprised to see me there. I asked them if he thought the injections had anything to do with my paralysis. He assured me, it did not. I asked him, if I had gone to the doctor when I had the flulike symptoms, could this have been avoided. He said, no, I would have just been treated for the flulike symptoms. He said that TM is something that cannot be foreseen or avoided. After five sessions of plasmapheresis, I've gotten back a little use on the left side. I'm still fighting for more therapy in hopes that I will gain more movement. My TM, is it that goes as idiopathic (that means the idiots can't figure out what's going on) :-) Naomi C-4 quad since July 2, 2005
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