Welcome aboard Rita! As you will hear over & over again, glad you found us but
sorry you had too. This is a great group and feel free to ask anyone anything.
This is a great group and we all know how you feel.
Once again, welcome aboard!
Larry in Oklahoma who is so thankful the snow missed us!
> Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 16:25:28 -0500> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
> [email protected]> Subject: [TMIC] Another unidentified becomes
> identified!> > My name is Rita. I am in snowy Cleveland, OH. I was diagnosed
> with TM Memorial Day weekend 2007 at the C-4/C-5 region, apparently from a
> virus I had 3 weeks prior. With some people introducing themselves I thought
> it was time I did to. I have read your emails and received a lot of helpful
> information. So, hello to all of you, some I feel as if I know, and Thank You
> for the help you have given me over the past 10 months.> > My onset of TM
> seemed sudden. The Friday of Memorial Day weekend I was cutting a friends
> hair. I began having a sharp pain in my upper back. Thought it was just a
> kink and tried to work it out. I them began to have numbness in my left arm
> and them into my right. After dropping my comb a couple time and when I could
> barely open and close the scissors I told my friend something was wrong.
> Thank goodness I got the last snip in on her hair. She took me to the
> hospital and by the that time I was having a hard time opening my hands and
> was getting leg weakness. After 2 days in the hospital and several x-rays and
> cat scans a neurologist order a MRI. By Sunday he had diagnosed me with TM,
> checked my spinal fluids, which were fine and I was sent home on Monday
> Memorial Day. Not quite sure what the heck TM was and feeling week, I thought
> I would be better by weeks end and out shopping for flowers for the yard.
> Needless to say but my yard did not get any new plants last summer. On
> Tuesday the kids got picked up for school as I could not drive. My symptoms
> began to worsen. I began to feel that sharp pain in my neck and back. As I
> tried to reach in a cupboard for a cup my right arm fell and hit me in the
> face and the pain worsened. I started to panic when I tried to call my sister
> and my fingers couldn't push the buttons. after numerous tries I got a hold
> of her. She came and called the neurologist and he ordered steroids. I was
> very week. I remained out of work until mid August. > My symptoms have
> improved greatly since and I am thankful for that. However, my body just
> doesn't feel right. I still do have numbness on the right side of abdomen, My
> right arm tricep still isn't doing good and I have a stim unit here to help
> it from deteriorating any further. I still get pain in my neck and back and
> in October I began experiencing Lhermittes sign, and I do get so tired still.
> I get a cold burning feeling in my arms and hands and they aren't cold to the
> touch. If something cold touches my fore arms it feels like it burns. > > Has
> anyone onset been from a virus? Another thing I experience that my
> neurologist thinks is something other than TM is if I am out in and it is
> windy or cold and tense up almost as if to shiver, my legs stiffen up and I
> have a hard time walking. Has anyone experienced that? > > There, I did it, I
> am now identified! > > Rita (Snowing BIG TIME in Cleveland)>
