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<blockquote data-quote="TPaul" data-source="post: 329116" data-attributes="member: 8055"><p><strong><span style="color: darkred">Dear Timer Lady,</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #8b0000">Don't mind you asking at all. I have had strange symptoms off and on for years. Have what was like sever muscle spasms and pain, along with reduced feeling in my arms and legs on a on again, off again basis. The would last from a few days to a few weeks and then get better for a while.</span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: #8b0000">After I got married things seems to get worse, LOL LOL, I mean in a physical sense too, with the episodes happening more often and sometimes lasting longer. I did not have medical insurance so I just toughed it out and waited. I was convinced from researching in books and on the web that I had MS. So many of my symptoms and how the thing acted sounded almost exactly like MS. </span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: #8b0000">After I was able to get a partial disability and medicaid about 8 years ago, I began the long series of test with many different doctors. I have had about every test that one can imagine. muscle -nerve biopsy, emg's many times, (they stick needles in your muscles and send electric impulse-which they measure from the top of a muscle to the end of it to see how it conducts) OUCH, spinal taps, mri's cat scans, so many blood test, I am glad it regenerates, <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/tongue.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":tongue:" title="tongue :tongue:" data-shortname=":tongue:" />, brain scans, the list goes on and on.</span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: #8b0000">All of the test told us mainly on thing. While one part of a test would seem to point to my having a certain condition, another part of it, would point to another condition. With the EmG's for example, it truly looked like I had a muscular dystrophy family disease, but then the second part of it, was exactly opposite what it should be to be that disease. </span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: #8b0000">I have been to an umpteen of docs, but finally found on doctor who said that I have had all the test done that could be done normally, and that I would need to be at someplace like the MAYO clinic with thier advanced testing facitilies and highly trained specialist. That takes a great deal of money and my insurance would not pay for it. So he began a series of different medications to treat my symptoms, not to try to medicate the disease. After many, many trials with different combinations of medications we found one that gives me the abiltiy to function to the degree I am at now. With out these medications, I am like a little old man shuffling around and not doing much. The combinations of two pain killers, one a narcotic, a muscle relaxer, a anti inflammitory ( and previciad to keep the stomach acid down)and over the counter tyenol three times a day I am up and about. Still not at 100% but don't complain because I am up and about and doing more than I thought I might be able to ever do again.</span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: #8b0000">That's my story and I am sticking to it,</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #8b0000">Tpaul</span></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TPaul, post: 329116, member: 8055"] [B][COLOR=darkred]Dear Timer Lady,[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#8b0000]Don't mind you asking at all. I have had strange symptoms off and on for years. Have what was like sever muscle spasms and pain, along with reduced feeling in my arms and legs on a on again, off again basis. The would last from a few days to a few weeks and then get better for a while.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#8b0000][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#8b0000]After I got married things seems to get worse, LOL LOL, I mean in a physical sense too, with the episodes happening more often and sometimes lasting longer. I did not have medical insurance so I just toughed it out and waited. I was convinced from researching in books and on the web that I had MS. So many of my symptoms and how the thing acted sounded almost exactly like MS. [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#8b0000][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#8b0000]After I was able to get a partial disability and medicaid about 8 years ago, I began the long series of test with many different doctors. I have had about every test that one can imagine. muscle -nerve biopsy, emg's many times, (they stick needles in your muscles and send electric impulse-which they measure from the top of a muscle to the end of it to see how it conducts) OUCH, spinal taps, mri's cat scans, so many blood test, I am glad it regenerates, :raspberry-tounge:, brain scans, the list goes on and on.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#8b0000][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#8b0000]All of the test told us mainly on thing. While one part of a test would seem to point to my having a certain condition, another part of it, would point to another condition. With the EmG's for example, it truly looked like I had a muscular dystrophy family disease, but then the second part of it, was exactly opposite what it should be to be that disease. [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#8b0000][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#8b0000]I have been to an umpteen of docs, but finally found on doctor who said that I have had all the test done that could be done normally, and that I would need to be at someplace like the MAYO clinic with thier advanced testing facitilies and highly trained specialist. That takes a great deal of money and my insurance would not pay for it. So he began a series of different medications to treat my symptoms, not to try to medicate the disease. After many, many trials with different combinations of medications we found one that gives me the abiltiy to function to the degree I am at now. With out these medications, I am like a little old man shuffling around and not doing much. The combinations of two pain killers, one a narcotic, a muscle relaxer, a anti inflammitory ( and previciad to keep the stomach acid down)and over the counter tyenol three times a day I am up and about. Still not at 100% but don't complain because I am up and about and doing more than I thought I might be able to ever do again.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#8b0000]That's my story and I am sticking to it,[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#8b0000]Tpaul[/COLOR][/B] [/QUOTE]
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