[TMIC] joints

[susan zieke]

hi, i haven't been online for awhile, but want to ask you all about 
whether or not your joints have been affected by Mt. i had my left 
shoulder replaced last fall and now i need to have my right one 
replaced. i have arthritis in my family, but it seems extraordinary to 
me that at 54 , i will have both shoulders replaced.  do you think the 
tm could have been part of the deterioration of my joints?  my lesion 
was c2-c6, i am mostly affected in m,y upper body. i can not feel it 
when i get shots, like i had a cortisone shot in my right shoulder and 
could feel nothing. however if you blow on my skin it hurts, or light 
touch.  i know my muscles don't work quite right. i am on oxygen 
because my diaphragm doesn't move my lungs enough, so could the muscle 
shoulders also just not work right? i have no cartilage left in the 
right shoulder. i am just always curious as to what the cause is. not 
that is changes things.
does anybody take lecithin?
it has been 7 1/2 years since my onset and i am only now starting to 
feel occasionally like i can have a life again. weird, take care, sue