tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161065053564080769.post1563046644433219981..comments2023-10-29T00:36:46.747+10:00Comments on grahamm44: Due to talk at the Transverse Myelitis Association Thursday 17th MayAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14519461744750490160noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161065053564080769.post-84745283017050187392012-05-13T18:56:50.343+10:002012-05-13T18:56:50.343+10:00Strange as it might seem, I had a mild case of tra...Strange as it might seem, I had a mild case of transverse myelitis in about 1990. I woke up one night in a terrible panic because I thought my legs had fallen off! I located them and picked each one up and shook it. Gradually sensation returned [mostly] to my right leg and with only a loss of sensation down the outside of my left thigh/leg. I put it down to an effect of new antidepressants or my occasional sciatica, though it really frightened me. When I got up in the morning I had to help my left leg a bit and kept "steering" left because my leg wasn't stepping forward as much as I thought it was. When I mentioned it to a certain DB-T as we walked somewhere, he laughed, and said "What a hoot! The body image research officer has a body image problem!" After that, I just coped- amidst a few slight bladder/bowel control slips. I thought they were a result of other medication & said nothing to anyone, even my GP & shrink. After a few weeks, control of my leg started to improve but I still had a pretty logical area of semi-numbness down the outside of my left leg. Just chatting one day with a friend who had had to use a walking stick due to nerve damage to one leg while pregnant, the conversation was overheard by our Noble Leader. He flew into a bit of a panic, grabbed me and closeted me in his office, demanding the whole story. He thought it was something neurological and asked me if I had experienced any high fevers in the last year. He must be a pretty canny diagnostician as I HAD experienced several days of high temperature, inability to stand any noise, a stiff neck and needed to sleep a lot. I had asked our home cleaning person to go home & not clean one day when I was lying down flat trying to get relief from the awful headache, so the day stood out as unusual. Ross scooted me off to see the neurologist downstairs & he concluded I had suffered a small attack of Transverse Myelitis, probably viral. I was fully back to normal sense in my leg after about 4 months more & nothing has ever occurred again! Hooray! Yours sounded a real shocker! I never said anything initially as all the unusual symptoms I've ever had have been dismissed as imagination or hypochondria, although most turned out to be real problems. I didn't trust anyone enough to "confess" my "silly" experiences. How's that for your talk?Murfomurfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12975382358013125434noreply@blogger.com