Janice why are you so concerned that TM has absolutely nothing to do with the brain. you have mentioned this several times.
I am just curious,,i could honestly care less what it has to do with anything,,,just wondering. ________________________________ From: Dalton Garis <malugss...@gmail.com> To: Janice Nichols <jan...@centurytel.net>; john snodgrass <jcs...@yahoo.com>; randy rankin <rj_ran...@yahoo.com>; TM Group <tmic-list@eskimo.com> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 8:39 PM Subject: Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM? Speech was affected! Couldn't talk during attacks, which come less now. I would try to speak and would lose control of arms and legs and would stiffen up like a tin solder. Dalton From: Janice Nichols <jan...@centurytel.net> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:59:25 -0600 To: Dalton Garis <malugss...@gmail.com>, john snodgrass <jcs...@yahoo.com>, randy rankin <rj_ran...@yahoo.com>, TM Group <tmic-list@eskimo.com> Subject: Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM? And yet your speech was not affected. hmmmmm. >Janice >From: Dalton Garis >Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 5:01 PM >To: john snodgrass ; Janice Nichols ; randy rankin ; TM Group >Subject: Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM? > Brainstem, brainstem; > > >Mine was in the upper brainstem, but not the brain itself, something called the Pons, which is some kind of switching station between brain-will and body-can. > >Dalton > > > From: john snodgrass <jcs...@yahoo.com> >Reply-To: john snodgrass <jcs...@yahoo.com> >Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:28:07 -0800 (PST) >To: Janice Nichols <jan...@centurytel.net>, randy rankin <rj_ran...@yahoo.com>, TM Group <tmic-list@eskimo.com> >Subject: Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM? >Resent-From: <tmic-list@eskimo.com> >Resent-Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:31:29 -0800 > > >reminds me of something Dalton said before concerning speech,,,,,and when I >think about it,, speech is a brain thing,,,so them either there's more to TM >than what is actually discovered or there are other things going on "with the >brain" that has an effect on speech because speech is a "brain" thing,,,,TM is >a "spine" thing. >>if we only knew...... >> >> >>then again what would we do about it. >> >> >>perhaps it is a residual thing. >> >> >>body freaks out and brain has no way of realigning it so parts of it >>malfunctions as well. >> >> >>guessing,,,,,practicing medicine without a license,,,,yikes!!! >> >> >>________________________________ >> From: Janice Nichols <jan...@centurytel.net> >>To: randy rankin <rj_ran...@yahoo.com>; TM Group <tmic-list@eskimo.com> >>Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 1:10 PM >>Subject: Re: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM? >> >> >>One of the first things the hospital check when I got there was my Potassium >>level. Sadly, that was not the problem. “Celebrated” my 5th year of TM >>yesterday. >>I didn’t know that speech could be affected. Where did her “attack” >>occur? >>Janice >> >>From: randy rankin >>Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 11:02 AM >>To: TM Group >>Subject: [TMIC] is there a connection between low potassium and TM? >> Mary is not talking or communicating and is able to get to the bathroom >>with assistance but that side of the family is still clueless. I talked to >>them about TM, MS, and mylopothy and I might as well been talking about a new >>island off the coast of Java --- They are mentally fixed on the low potassium >>situation and not the fact she can't talk and she can't walk. But I did >>promise that I would ask the group to see if any of you were aware of any >>connections between low K and the neurological conditions that impacted you - >>experiencially or diagnostically >> >>