Re: [TMIC] Looking for input.

2012-06-26 Thread Janice Nichols
Bridget, Are you sure you can’t get into the doc until August?Have you told them your symptoms and they still refuse until August? How about seeing your yearly doc you saw before TM? He/she could probably get you in way before August. I have taken both Neurontin and Lyrica.I am

Re: [TMIC] Looking for input.

2012-06-26 Thread john snodgrass
if you have a family Doc,they could refer you for another opinion. there seams to be more going on here than meets the eye. hard to find a happy middle ground in neurological medicine,while one Doc will pit you to sleep another will let you scream with pain and anguish. never be

Re: [TMIC] Looking for input.

2012-06-26 Thread john snodgrass
thats right Dalton. it would be terrible if we had nobody like us to talk to because everyone else seams to just not understand From: Dalton Garis malugss...@gmail.com To: Janet Dunn j.d...@shaw.ca; tmic-list@eskimo.com tmic-list@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, June

Re: [TMIC] Looking for input.

2012-06-26 Thread Janice Nichols
Tell me again where you live - I think I want to move there. Since TM, I LOVE cold weather! Janice From: Janet Dunn Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 9:43 PM To: tmic-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [TMIC] Looking for input. Thank you for all of the replies. I am going to try the baclofen as

Re: [TMIC] Looking for input.

2012-06-26 Thread Janice Nichols
Dalton, how are you doing with your seizures? Haven’t heard much about it lately. Hope it means there is vast improvement. Janice From: Dalton Garis Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 9:59 PM To: Janet Dunn ; tmic-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [TMIC] Looking for input. We love you, and your

Re: [TMIC] Looking for input.

2012-06-26 Thread Susan Kleinz
Hello Bridget and all. Susan Kleinz here - Phoenix, Arizona Today it is going to be 113! The heat is hard, but the cold is worse for me. I have been on baclofen for 22 years. It has saved me from painful spasms. I take it every six hours. neurontin also helps me. I take it 3 times a day.

Re: [TMIC] Looking for input.

2012-06-26 Thread Dalton Garis
Actually; The situation was much improved for a while. But now they are back again, having Segwayed into a kind of mental fog, which comes on quickly then leaves me with limited speech and locomotion capacities, and in need of around 3-4 hours sleep almost immediately. I am really a shut-in

Re: [TMIC] Looking for input.

2012-06-26 Thread James Berg
Hi all--I'm one who has tried all of the drugs and learned about Lyrica from Dalton. Now I can't live without it. My legs spasm so bad that without it that my wife would leave me if I didn't take it. Seriously, there was no sleep for either of us before the Pregabalin (generic Lyrica). I

Re: [TMIC] Looking for input.

2012-06-26 Thread Dalton Garis
Well now That rigidity you talk about sounds a lot like part of what I have been describing for years. Dalton Garis New York, New York On Jun 26, 2012, at 5:10 PM, James Berg molokai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all--I'm one who has tried all of the drugs and learned about Lyrica from Dalton.

Re: [TMIC] Looking for input.

2012-06-26 Thread Janice Nichols
Susan, what time every day do you take your baclofen? Also, how old were you when TM hit you? Janice From: Susan Kleinz Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 10:42 AM To: Bridget Skinner Cc: Janice Nichols ; Elizabeth Clark ; Janet Dunn ; tmic-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [TMIC] Looking for

Re: [TMIC] Looking for input.

2012-06-26 Thread Janice Nichols
Actually, I am doing pretty well.Still getting stronger in my legs after 5 years of TM.Balance isn’t terrific, but I can deal with it. What do you do to keep your brain going since you are practically a shut in now? You always kept busy with mental activities.You and Bridget are

Re: [TMIC] Looking for input.

2012-06-26 Thread Roger Terese Pratt
I had one full seizure and many, many mini-seizures (didn't pass out, just lots of muscle spasms and trouble talking)for 2 years before I was diagnosed with TM.  I can still have them only very occasionally when I get really tired.   Medication does help and they usually don't happen until late

Re: [TMIC] Looking for input.

2012-06-26 Thread john snodgrass
it is frustrating to say the least,,,your thinking,,im going to do this,,and then you move and your body begins to dictate otherwise to the point you say in going to do nothing.that heade thrashing scares me though...might jerk it into something!,,,ive done my legs that way and it left a