[TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM?

2012-01-14 Thread randy rankin
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

Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM?

2012-01-14 Thread john snodgrass
mine is fine yet I am a mess From: randy rankin rj_ran...@yahoo.com To: TM Group tmic-list@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 12:02 PM Subject: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM? Mary is not talking  or communicating and is

Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM?

2012-01-14 Thread Janice Nichols
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,

Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM?

2012-01-14 Thread john snodgrass
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

Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM?

2012-01-14 Thread Dalton Garis
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 jcs...@yahoo.com Reply-To: john snodgrass jcs...@yahoo.com Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012

Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM?

2012-01-14 Thread Janice Nichols
And yet your speech was not affected. hm. 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

Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM?

2012-01-14 Thread Dalton Garis
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 jan...@centurytel.net Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:59:25 -0600 To: Dalton Garis

Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM?

2012-01-14 Thread john snodgrass
Dalton said before that his speech was effected  From: Janice Nichols jan...@centurytel.net To: Dalton Garis malugss...@gmail.com; john snodgrass jcs...@yahoo.com; randy rankin rj_ran...@yahoo.com; TM Group tmic-list@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012

Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM?

2012-01-14 Thread john snodgrass
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. From: Dalton Garis malugss...@gmail.com

Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM?

2012-01-14 Thread Laura Beaudin
Because if there is brain involvement, it's not TM. Laura The Home(School) Club http://www.thehomeschoolclub.org On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 7:39 PM, john snodgrass jcs...@yahoo.com wrote: Janice why are you so concerned that TM has absolutely nothing to do with the brain. you have mentioned

Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM?

2012-01-14 Thread Dalton Garis
So they say Š I am of the opinion that TM is one of a constellation of myelin disorders, one of many along a spectrum; and that as time goes on, and the globalization effects populations shifts more and more, that the boundary between these now identifiable diseases will be less obvious and

Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM?

2012-01-14 Thread john snodgrass
i suppose it is again,,what ever neurologist you talk to. I would almost put money on it that if you talk to 3 you would get 3 different answers. you batting for Janice Laura  ;) From: Laura Beaudin laura.beau...@gmail.com To: john snodgrass jcs...@yahoo.com

[TMIC] TM and the brain

2012-01-14 Thread john snodgrass
I apologize for any inconvenience I have caused in the questioning of anything concerning TM and the brain. it really doesn't matter if I am right or wrong in these matters. it doesn't fix anything to be right and it doesn't break anything to be wrong. I would rather be wrong and quiet than

Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM?

2012-01-14 Thread Janice Nichols
I was referring that to Randy – talking about Mary. Janice From: john snodgrass Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 8:37 PM To: Janice Nichols ; Dalton Garis ; randy rankin ; TM Group Subject: Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM? Dalton said before that his speech was

Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM?

2012-01-14 Thread Janice Nichols
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

Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM?

2012-01-14 Thread Dalton Garis
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,