John, I'm not sure what your spasms are like - maybe yours are much worse than mine, but I've found that if I take sufficient calcium supplements, I don't have them. (What I refer to as 'spasms', for me, is when nerves in my legs actually cause my legs to jerk around when I'm still. It makes it hard to go to sleep.)
I take maybe 800 mg to 1200 mg/day, depending on how much calcium foods I've eaten. If my legs start to spasm, I know I didn't take enough and get up and take some. (Calcium is more effective if taken in smaller doses - i.e. 400mg - throughout the day, rather than all at once.) My calcium levels were good before I was given the 5000 mg methyl-prednisone to zap the myelitis, but that zapped the calcium, too. So this is likely to be true for all of us who were given steroids to treat the TM. It might be worth it to give it a try. Sally > realy bad spasms. > it helps some. > i thought this stuff made you sleepy. > i reckon i am immune. > > --- On Sat, 12/18/10, Dalton Garis <malugss...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > From: Dalton Garis <malugss...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [TMIC] Gabapentin > To: "john snodgrass" <jcs...@yahoo.com> > Date: Saturday, December 18, 2010, 9:33 AM > > > That is 4x what I am taking! > > John, do you have paralysis and spasms? And is that why the neuro has you > on such a high dose? > > Because I would love to be more medicated if I could. > > Dalton > > Office: +971-02-607-5070/5297 > Mobile: +971-50-668-5760-- > > > > > > From: john snodgrass <jcs...@yahoo.com> > Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 06:11:48 -0800 (PST) > To: Kevin Wolfthal <wolft...@optonline.net> > Cc: transverse myelitis <tmic-list@eskimo.com> > Subject: Re: [TMIC] Gabapentin > Resent-From: <tmic-list@eskimo.com> > Resent-Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 06:11:49 -0800 > > i am taking 2400 mg a day. it helps but it doesn't heal me > > --- On Sat, 12/18/10, Kevin Wolfthal <wolft...@optonline.net> wrote: > >> From: Kevin Wolfthal <wolft...@optonline.net> >> Subject: [TMIC] Gabapentin >> To: tmic-list@eskimo.com >> Date: Saturday, December 18, 2010, 6:12 AM >> >> My new doctor visited me today. I asked him again about >> Gabapentin and he >> is going to start me on 100mg 3 times a day. For those who >> take this, I would >> like to hear how you did on it. I realize it's a low >> dosage. >> >> Thanks, >> Kevin >> >> > > > > > > > >
