Hi Everyone, Today marks my 13th year with tm.I was 39. I was paralyzed from T4 down ,and after rehab used a wheelchair and then a walker.Then I used a cane for a while,but now I'm back to the walker. I have numbness from T4 down,except for a few areas of hypersensitivity on my left leg.Strong banding around my trunk since the day of onset.Tingling and burning pain remain a constant.One leg feels any temperature touching it as icy cold,the other as burning hot. I only perspire on the right side of my face.Why,when my lesion was T4-T5?Nobody knows. I look back,and it seems like it hasn't been that long,yet in other ways it seems like forever. There is life after tm,just a totally different one. Cheryl in sunny Easthampton,MA.
