Re: [TMIC] Hello

2013-04-04 Thread Pat Voorheis
Anne and Roger, I am perplexed by both of your posts because of how long you have had TM and that you have had further attacks after so many years. Anne, you said you are now confined to a bed or wheelchair, but didn't say if it was the result of a new TM attack. Did you have a second attack

Re: [TMIC] Hello

2013-04-04 Thread Roger Terese Pratt
Pat, My second attack was not called TM because it was not an attack on the spinal chord, but rather an attack on the peripheral nerves.  Both are assumed to be auto-immune caused.  In other words, the immune system attacking the nerves, and both were treated with steroid IVs to stop the