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2006-10-25 Thread L T CHERPESKI
Welcome Wendy, TM came to live with me in April 2002. Started with numbness in my toes and gradually worked its way up to my chest. I was left with no feeling at all, but I was able to wobble, dragging one leg - although I did not know that until my mother told me -  because I couldn't feel

[TMIC] Greetings!

2006-10-25 Thread Trudy
Dear Friends, I have been off the list since August as we were doing quite a bit of traveling and it is so difficult to keep up when you don’t have access to a computer. I hope all is well with everyone! I am still trying to find a neurologist who actually cares about my condition. I went

[TMIC] Walking & Pain

2006-10-25 Thread rogetteharris
Other than Neurotin what other medications do you take for tightness & pain managmenet? Also, for those of you walking , what did you do to build up your endurance and leg muscles? Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of hig

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2006-10-25 Thread Trudy
Wendy, TM hit me in the middle of the night in 2002. At first I was completely paralyzed from waist down. With therapy I am now using a walker and driving with hand controls. For the most part my condition has not changed much. I was 55 when TM hit… Tell us a little about what happened to

RE: [TMIC] CHECK OUT THIS WEB SITE

2006-10-25 Thread Wendy Wood
Title: AOL Email Hi Jude:   Maybe I should have added they found a lesion on my thorasic that is TM.    Thanks again!!     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; TMIC-LIST@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [

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2006-10-25 Thread HeyJude48506
Title: AOL Email Hi Wendy,   Thanks for making yourself known.  We warmly welcome you into our "family" of TM'ers.   It might be easier for us to respond to your questions if you told us more about your illness and how it came about

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2006-10-25 Thread Wendy Wood
Hi Everyone:   My name is Wendy and I’m a 40 year old woman who live in NJ.  Recently I was diagnosed with Transverse Myelitis and a brain tumor.  I’m curious what symptoms other people had with Transverse Myelitis and how the disease progresses or does it?      Thank you!!   Wendy  

[TMIC] nerve stimulator implant

2006-10-25 Thread Sandy Heidel
I have a friend who has some spinal cord damage from an old accident. He has been having severe pain and some atrophy in one leg.  His doctors are recommending an electronic nerve stimulator implant to stop the pain and also to stimulate the nerves in his leg and hopefully arrest the atrophy

Re: [TMIC] Tiizanidine

2006-10-25 Thread Alton Ryder
> a brand nameZanaflex is the US brand of the generic tizanidineAlton, who uses it every day

RE: [TMIC] Tizanidine

2006-10-25 Thread
It's also called Zaniflex (I think) try this site: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/uspdi/207060.html BERNARD BUTCHER -Original Message- From: Kathryn Keen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 6:15 AM To: TM List Subject: [TMIC] Tizanidine (Sorry for

RE: [TMIC] Tiizanidine

2006-10-25 Thread Robert Pall
I USED TO HAVE THE TWITCHING LEG. I TREATED IT WITH BOTH MARINAL AND DIAZAPAN AND THE TWITCHING TOTALLY STOPPED.AND BESIDES IT HELPED ME TO SLEEP. ROB IN NEW JERSEY -Original Message- From: Kathryn Keen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 3:45 AM To: T M List

[TMIC] Tiizanidine

2006-10-25 Thread Kathryn Keen
Hello, I've read with interest the posts mentioning Tizanidine for the leg twitching at night. I have this problem off and on, but when it's occurring, it feels dreadful, and is impossible to sleep. I was given Madopar (a Parkinson's medication) for 'restless legs syndrome'; as the drs here didn

[TMIC] Tizanidine

2006-10-25 Thread Kathryn Keen
(Sorry for the previous post; I've tried to put this through earlier a couple of times... looks like it's going through now, so maybe I made an error before... anyway this is my query below).. I've read with interest the posts mentioning Tizanidine for the leg twitching at night. I have this

[TMIC] admin query

2006-10-25 Thread Kathryn Keen
Hello, Since changing over to my new email address, I am receiving posts, but not getting any through to the list. Could you please assist? Thank you. Kathryn Keen

[TMIC] RE{ LYRICA

2006-10-25 Thread HeyJude48506
Title: AOL Email I don't know what to say at this point, because my pain patches haven't been working that well and she thinks it may be the change from Neurontin to Lyrica.   At the same time, she is taking me off of the Fentanyl patch