Natalie,
I had knew I was HIV+ and was watching my health & had not started taken
medication yet for 13 years and had no real problems. HIV medication may stop
working after 5 years and then you need to start a new cocktail medications, so
I didn't want to start them until I had too. While I was thinking about
starting HIV medications, TM hit me at T-4 to T-8. It took the HIV medication
a year to get the inflammation down. I may have had TM slowly started a year
before. So, I believe the HIV+ is what caused my TM.
Todd in CC, TX
HIV meds & TM since April 1, 2002
HIV+ since Sept. 7, 1989
natalie mizenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To everyone w/ TM:
Do most of you know why you got Transverse Myelitis? I was not told a reason
why I had gotten it. Even at Baylor University. I don't recall anyone asking
me if I had been ill w/ anything prior to the TM. I was just curious to know
how your drs. addressed you. One leg was paralyzed after a fall on December
13th and by Christmas I was totally paralyzed from T12 down. It took them too
long to determine what I had; therefore, the steriods did not help; although I
also realize they don't always aid in recovery. I was sent to a rehab center
w/ the one leg paralyzed and became totally paralyzed there. They should have
had an accurate diagnosis before sending me to the 1st one; but apparently the
one they used was not accurate. I know I was sent there too soon. And the
second one I went to I was verbally abused and acquised of saying things I did
not say such as to an aide. That is one reason I decided to even leave my
state for help and go elsewhere to Baylor. I was
treated completely different there - it was certainly worth going there. By
the time I returned home I had been gone for 3 months!!! Natalie Mizenko
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