My onset was swift as well. From sudden excruciating pain in the lower back to completely paralyzed from the waist down in less than 15 minutes. No warning whatsoever. What a life changing event. Sue TM since 7-28-00 -----Original Message----- From: Alton Ryder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 7:40 PM To: TMIC list Subject: [TMIC] Zap - sudden paralysis Reading Naomi's story of being paralyzed in 15 minutes and remembering my own sudden onset,
http://www.myelitis.org/tmic/archive/17/0091.html "Initial symptom was a feeling of pressure in the right kidney after dinner [500 miles from home.] Ten minutes later my legs were "on fire"; another fifteen minutes and I was paraplegic with severe back pain." I believe that those of us stricken in such a short time were the victim of infarctions in the spinal cord, not infections or autoimmune disorders. My CSF was clear, so I did not have an infection. I had been asking for a heart attack. I had had a career under intense pressure, my blood cholesterol was 260, and I had been sitting in the car for 10 hours. I was lucky it was in my spine and not in my brain or heart. [I would have preferred more a bit of muscle in my butt.] Many years ago I had paid attention to the onset time of our group. If I remember correctly, about ten or twenty percent of us had episodes of an hour or less. Comment? Alton
