I need air movement or I feel like I can't breathe. Believe it or not I sleep with oxygen.... sometimes I wake up feeling like I am suffocating. Need air movement. Catherine
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From: Janice <
[email protected]>
To: bradebi <
[email protected]>; transverse myelitis <
[email protected]>;
[email protected]Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 11:01:11 PM
Subject: Re: [TMIC]
Debi,
Do you use
fans? Air movement is really important for
me. Janice
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>From: bradebi
>To: transverse myelitis ;
[email protected] ; Janice
>Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009
2:50 PM
>Subject: Re: [TMIC]
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>I would be more like you in temperatures
> but were I live there isn't many places with airconditioners...so I
> have noticed that after 3 o'clock in the afternoon I get hot....but I
> also have hot flashes at any time too.....and I can just be on the
> computer just like right now and be sweating up a storm...and I soak
> what ever I am wearing....I also turned 50 this year...so my Doctor told
> me to keep track of what is going on, because there are a lot of things
> can be happening...I could be pre
menopausal.....haven't had any
> improvement from this yet...sorry to say.
>Debi
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>From: Janice
>Date: 6/14/2009
> 8:31:46 PM
>To: bradebi; transverse myelitis;
[email protected]>Subject: Re:
> [TMIC]
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>You two seem to
> be worse than I am! I have found in the winter I choose
> lighter sweaters than before TM. In the summer,
>we keep the air
> conditioner pretty cool - around 71 with ceiling fans going too.
> In the winter we keep the heat at
around
>65 during the day
> and 60 at nite. All our friends know to wear heavier
> clothing and grab an afghan when they come over.
>I also can be
> doing basically nothing and all of a sudden I feel a heat coming out
> from within - hate it. Hope this
> improves.
>Janice
>----- Original Message -----
>From: bradebi
>To: transverse myelitis ; Janice ;
[email protected] >Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 9:45
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>Subject: Re: [TMIC]
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>Does you sweat burn
> your skin?...it drives me crazy
>Debi
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>From:
[email protected]>Date: 6/12/2009
> 7:32:22 PM
>To: bradebi; transverse myelitis;
> Janice
>Subject: Re:
> [TMIC]
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>I am sitting here with the AC going, ceiling fan and two fans
> on me and
sweating! feet feel like there on fire(when I put lotion
> on them it melts and turns to water) no kidding. banding is on
> right side rib cage to waist.
>Kim
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>Hi
> Janice
>I get
> very hot when it is only in the 70 or 80's for no
> reason I can just be on the computer or watching TV and I
> will get real hot so much that I sweat a lot..(I soak my
> blouse) but I only sweat on my face neck and breasts..my
> lesion is at nipple level T4 my banding is
> where my bra snaps...so it feels like my bra is way to
> tight.
>In the
> cold weather I get more spastic and tight it hurts to bend
> knees and ankles. I still have the banding in winter
> too...and if my husband puts the furnace up to high I will
> over heat...I love to go out in the snow with just what I
> have on and bear foot and watch all the steam come off
> me..its a riot...
>Debi
>TM
> spastic paraplegic T4 incomplete
>South
> Lake Tahoe Ca.
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>From:
Janice
>Date: > 6/11/2009 6:41:35 PM
>To: transverse
> myelitis
>Subject: > [TMIC]
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>This is Janice,
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>I have 2 questions:
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>1. With hot weather coming, do any of you have a
> problem with all of a sudden being really hot? I know
> some
>of you
had a problem with the cold last winter,
> but does your body change in summer and you get hit with
> being hot instead
>of cold? I really have a problem with
> heat - especially with humidity. I get
> hot, then weak. Not good.
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>2. Several of you have mentioned the tight "band"
> around your body. I am not sure this band is in the
> same place for
>everyone. Also, has there been any
> change in the band with those of you who have had TM for a
> long time?
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