Hi Janice, I've had TM for 5-years also, after an immune-reaction to a flu-vaccine injection-[my first and last!!!]. I've recently begun to self-catheterise-[since April-2012], though I have noticed my spasms do increase before I empty my bladder - and banding too!
I improved up until last July-[when I had a minor car-accident w/sacral strain], since then I've had more 'wet'-moments than before. My opinion is that the injury has 'played-up-with-my-underlying-condition'-[TM], thus adding to the bladder issues etc. regards to you all, Glendon On 23 May 2012 17:45, Janice Nichols <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi TM’ers, > > This question probably pertains mostly to female TM’ers, but maybe not. > > Is it my imagination or have you all noticed that spasms increase from the > waist down, legs included, when the bladder is saying it is time to > go to the bathroom? I have changed the wording several times to make it > say what I am trying to ask. Hope you get my meaning. > > Also, have any of you gotten consistent improvement in bladder control or > have you pretty much leveled out as far as improvement is concerned. If > you keep improving, > please give me the length of time you have had TM. I have had TM > for 5 years and seem to go back and forth, sometimes 2-3 weeks at a time, > waking up with wet pads > and then, for a while, fairly dry (but never completely). It doesn’t > seem to matter how much I drink during the day or in the evening. > When I was in the hospital, the doc’s > kept talking about my bladder needing time to “wake up” after being > paralyzed. Well, mine seems to wake up a little and then snoozes > again. Frustrating. > > Janice > -- respectfully, *Glendon - (a.k.a Goat Dodders) * *...Living with Transverse-Myelitis **since 2007,* *in Brisbane, **Queensland, **Australia... * *email; [email protected]* *web-blog; bloodywishfulthinking.blogspot.com * *twitter; @GoatDodders <https://www.twitter.com/@GoatDodders>*
