Dalton, I hate that this is a part of your TM. It seems that most of us have
a problem that seems separate from TM, but I wonder if it is really. Doctors
will give you the symptoms of TM,
then tell you what you can expect as time passes. You can feel you are
making progress, then another “thing” happens to you to complicate life.
Maybe that is just what TM does. When
I was in the hospital with TM, doctors always gave me the “normal” scenario.
They never talked about the continued or new problems that crop up that I have
experienced and heard about
from you all. Actually, I don’t think they know from one person to another
what to expect. Anyway, that is my take on TM.
On a good note, I have improved much more than the medical field said I would
after the first 2 years. I bet many of you have too.
Janice
From: Dalton Garis
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 1:28 AM
To: Janice Nichols ; john snodgrass ; randy rankin ; TM Group
Subject: Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM?
True enough;
But it seems to have opened some kind of route to partial epileptic seizures,
because I just stare out an can't do much sometimes for hours. When they first
started they were almost exclusively physical, just bodily stiffness and wave
after wave of contraptions, first in the back, then in the front. But after a
while they began to affect me mentally as well, until the mental situation
became uppermost as now. When the attack starts, then my brain seizes up.
Dalton
From: Janice Nichols <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:29:37 -0600
To: john snodgrass <[email protected]>, Dalton Garis <[email protected]>,
randy rankin <[email protected]>, TM Group <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM?
I was always told that scars left on the spine meant TM, and scars left on
the brain meant MS. I was wondering if there was another problem going on
if speech
was affected. Dalton has problems trying to speak during seizures, which I
would expect, but on a regular basis in talking to TM’ers, I have not noticed
anyone saying
they had a problem with speech.
Janice
From: john snodgrass
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 8:39 PM
To: Dalton Garis ; Janice Nichols ; randy rankin ; TM Group
Subject: Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM?
Janice why are you so concerned that TM has absolutely nothing to do with the
brain. you have mentioned this several times.
I am just curious,,i could honestly care less what it has to do with
anything,,,just wondering.
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From: Dalton Garis <[email protected]>
To: Janice Nichols <[email protected]>; john snodgrass
<[email protected]>; randy rankin <[email protected]>; TM Group
<[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM?
Speech was affected!
Couldn't talk during attacks, which come less now. I would try to speak and
would lose control of arms and legs and would stiffen up like a tin solder.
Dalton
From: Janice Nichols <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:59:25 -0600
To: Dalton Garis <[email protected]>, john snodgrass <[email protected]>,
randy rankin <[email protected]>, TM Group <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM?
And yet your speech was not affected. hmmmmm.
Janice
From: Dalton Garis
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 5:01 PM
To: john snodgrass ; Janice Nichols ; randy rankin ; TM Group
Subject: Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM?
Brainstem, brainstem;
Mine was in the upper brainstem, but not the brain itself, something called
the Pons, which is some kind of switching station between brain-will and
body-can.
Dalton
From: john snodgrass <[email protected]>
Reply-To: john snodgrass <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:28:07 -0800 (PST)
To: Janice Nichols <[email protected]>, randy rankin
<[email protected]>, TM Group <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM?
Resent-From: <[email protected]>
Resent-Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:31:29 -0800
reminds me of something Dalton said before concerning speech,,,,,and when
I think about it,, speech is a brain thing,,,so them either there's more to TM
than what is actually discovered or there are other things going on "with the
brain" that has an effect on speech because speech is a "brain" thing,,,,TM is
a "spine" thing.
if we only knew......
then again what would we do about it.
perhaps it is a residual thing.
body freaks out and brain has no way of realigning it so parts of it
malfunctions as well.
guessing,,,,,practicing medicine without a license,,,,yikes!!!
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From: Janice Nichols <[email protected]>
To: randy rankin <[email protected]>; TM Group <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM?
One of the first things the hospital check when I got there was my
Potassium level. Sadly, that was not the problem. “Celebrated” my 5th
year of TM yesterday.
I didn’t know that speech could be affected. Where did her “attack”
occur?
Janice
From: randy rankin
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 11:02 AM
To: TM Group
Subject: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM?
Mary is not talking or communicating and is able to get to the bathroom
with assistance but that side of the family is still clueless. I talked to
them about TM, MS, and mylopothy and I might as well been talking about a new
island off the coast of Java --- They are mentally fixed on the low potassium
situation and not the fact she can't talk and she can't walk. But I did promise
that I would ask the group to see if any of you were aware of any connections
between low K and the neurological conditions that impacted you -
experiencially or diagnostically
