> paralysis Initially paralysis and a loss of sensation below a line from my left hip joint to my right kidney. Detailed in http://www.myelitis.org/tmic/archive/17/0091.html Several months later I was walking with forearm crutches, then excess tone spasticity caused another problem.
> bladder & bowel No bowel problem, thank God. For a year the bladder problem was dribbling. It transitioned to a different and hellish problem - the detrusor muscles squeeze involuntarily, and the sphincter REFUSES to relax. The solution is an indwelling catheter, a Foley. Alton On Dec 27, 2009, at 11:17 PM, Janice Nichols wrote: > Soooo, it sounds like no TM, but stroke that manifested itself in the spinal > cord. Do you or did you have the paralyzation problems > that we TM'ers have? Also, the bladder and bowel problems prevalent with > TM? If so, is it only because the clot was in the cord rather than > anywhere else? Sorry to be dense, but don't quite understand. > Janice > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Alton Ryder" <a-ry...@comcast.net> > Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2009 5:10 PM > To: "tmic list" <tmic-list@eskimo.com> > Subject: Re: [TMIC] Age > >>> is spinal stroke what transverse myelitis is? >> >> a myelitis is an inflammation of a nerve bundle, in our case the spinal >> cord; the infection manifests by white cells in the fluid around the cord >> (I had none, so I didn't really have TM.) >> >> transverse means across the thickness of the cord >> >> spinal strokes are failures in blood flow in the arteries serving the spinal >> cord, usually one of the two arteries that run parallel to the cord, in my >> case one of the tiny arterial capillaries inside the cord at T9-T10 >> >> my cholesterol level was very high then (1997,) and I had been riding as a >> passenger all day >> >> I was lucky; the clot could have lodged in my brain with consequences not >> good. >> >> Alton, currently 75 with very low bad cholesterol, high good stuff, and >> expecting at least another decade of a good life >> >
