Hi Todd, I watched the show too.I had never heard of this before,but what surprised me was the other surfers in the area had never heard of it.Weird. I have heard people on this list talk about a "spinal stroke",which this compression of blood vessels was also called on the show.Blood flow is cut off,the area swells and damage occurs.I wonder if they try prednisone for the swelling?This wasn't mentioned. Cheryl
--- On Wed, 8/13/08, Todd Tarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Todd Tarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [TMIC] surfer's neuropathy / Primetime: Medical Mysteries To: "TMIC" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 3:51 PM Did anyone happen to watch Primetime: Medical Mysteries last night. They talked about surfer's neuropathy. When surfing in Hawaii. Where the person on the surf board would bend their back upward and pinch the nerve in the spinal cord. They wouldn't be able to walk once they got back to the beach. The summer before I was hit with a lesion/TM @ T-4 to T-8. I have always said that it started the end of the summer of 2001 after boogie boarding at the beach in Corpus Christi, TX. I wanted to go back out, because it would be the last chance I would have for the summer, but my back hurt, my legs where wobble, and I was very tried, and we where going back home to Austin, TX. I was 38 years old and didn't think I was getting too OLD. At age 5, I fail off a slide head first and broke the right arm and pulled muscles in the ofter arm. Getting HIV+ in Sept. 7, 1989. Then the boogie board in the late summer of 2001. Then TM in April 1, 2002. Has anyone else heard about this and/or was surfing before TM? Todd-44 Corpus Christi, TX TM & HIV meds April 2002 Legs felt wobble after boogie boarding in of the summer of 2001: surfer's neuropathy HIV+ & HBV September 1989 Herpes & Shingles July 1989
