For those of you who have been diagnosed with Posttraumatic Syringomyelia... have your symptoms gotten worse dramatically over a short period of time?
I was diagnosed in the early 1990s and had a shunt put in a 1995 and except for pain that I have learned to get used to (with help from a pain medication) I have been okay since 1997 but on Sunday, April 18 I woke up with extreme pain in that area which has spread and made that muscle (where the shunt is placed) very very sore and that is the muscle I used to move that arm. I just got out of the hospital on July 18 after being in there since June 28 because of depleting my body of sodium and then aspirating and having aspiration ammonia and now this. I can't believe this is happening (especially my diagnosis in February with superficial bladder cancer and back to back bladder infections) in such a short period of time making 2018 horrible! Not to mention losing my Furbaby who was with me and stayed by my side for six years after losing my husband in 2012 (and we considered her nothing less than our Golden Retriever daughter as she was really something special to say the very very least) and then not having family continued to share the care. Thanks in advance! ~Lori -- "Petting, scratching and cuddling a dog could be soothing to the mind and heart and deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer." ~Dean Koontz
