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I just had an MRI done because I’ve had ALOT of pain in my back and legs. They said I had arthritis on my spine. I have a preexisting cond. (transverse myelitis) so, I have to take alot of pain meds now (loritab,Ms Contin). Does anyone have arthritis that takes meds that actually work?! PLEASE any help would be helpful…Thank you
As far as the epidural that was mentioned, how often would those treatments be? Do they work effectively?

Dear Experts after long search i have found this place .i suffered from Herpezzoster virus in feb 2005 it was on my right shoulder blisters .which effected my spinal cord and veins system i was completely disable for within 3 days than i was given anti viral medicines .which i completed .i still don’t know what was the cause of it and although i had chicken pox in the child hood my age is now 24 .but i still have laziness .pains .aches and weakness in my body .with constipation since than .and i am also facing sexually un wellness like pain in my penis .and lake of erection although i have seen doctor but yet not improved much so pleas advice me which consultant should i see and if any one has information about it like how long will it take to cure and what was the cause of it although i didn’t had sex .and i am getting married will it be transferred to my partner.
your answers will be appreciated .
Note the doctors wrote in the report in this way .Herpeszoster due to transverse myelitis

A few months back in September i was hospitalized for 3 months and was ordered by the doc to sat home for a month. well when i started school i was in an honors class taking honors algebra at the hi school. I started school again back in lat November. in the algebra honors class if i did well i would go to geometry or algebra 2, well i cant go to ether because i missed so much of the high school that i just cant. Do you think its unfair that i cant make it up in a summer school? and in addition the high school did not let the people at the hospital teach me math or anything. Im still in the class and im in the 8th taking the honors class. So do you think its fair or unfair that i have to retake the class but instead of algebra its Algebra Honors (how stupid add an honors at the end) also my condition was transverse myelitis
also i have been working on being in honors from the 5th and staying in honors classes in my jr high every year

if the lesion were high up in the brainstem or above, i agree that there are other nuclei ( reticular/vestibular) present to continously facilitate the alpha motor and gamma motor neurons. but a lesion like hemisection of spinal cord or transverse myelitis leading to spastic paralysis….why? there are no nuclei there and the motor neurons have been but off from both extra pyramidal and pyramidal tracts yet clasp knife spasticity, hypertonia and hyperreflexia..?
if u could comment on the cause of paraplegia in extension and flexion that would be great.

if the lesion were high up in the brainstem or above, i agree that there are other nuclei ( reticular/vestibular) present to continously facilitate the alpha motor and gamma motor neurons. but a lesion like hemisection of spinal cord or transverse myelitis leading to spastic paralysis….why? there are no nuclei there and the motor neurons have been but off from both extra pyramidal and pyramidal tracts yet clasp knife spasticity, hypertonia and hyperreflexia..?
if u could comment on the cause of paraplegia in extension and flexion that would be great.

Does anyone know the proper title and original artist of the early-1980s reggae song which I know as the Dangerous Diseases Song. It was playing all the time at local beach bars when I was in Trinidad in July/August 1982, and contained the refrain of “you got the dangereous diseases, like the elephantits, the polio myelitis…”

I have found a recent song with the same title by Blood of Abraham from 2005, but no lyrics in an internet search. This may be a cover of the original, but I’m not sure. I would love to know the answer so I can track down the original to remind me of great times and great friends. Can anyone help me with this one, please?

my cousins have always made fun of me and my weight for along time now. the cousin close to my age use to make fun of me because i have transverse myelitis. My girl cousin and her friend call me names like copy catter because sometimes my cousin buys some pretty or cool stuff and i sorta buy i different color of it like pink. and yesterday they said really means things about me on facebook and i just wanna beat my cousins ass. she thinks everything she likes i cant have!
they were over my house a few days ago and my cousin showed me some screamo music and i brang it up and said i liked it and her and her bff was like” you can’t like our music, that’s our music” they piss me off so much!
here’s what they said on facebook, from now on idon’tt even want to talk to my cousin because if i do i might whoop her ass
Friends headline: we dont like that fat pork!
Cousin:godd ! she just ughhh!! bothers mee !
friend:i hope those somalian pirates come kidnap her and bring her to africa to starve (;
Cousin:haha i know right ! and dont feed her ferr day .and and drag her body ferr days ! until she knows how to stop copying people !
friend:huh ? haha
Cousin:o how bout.push her off a cliff !
friend:ha ok
im just pissed! i cried yesterday. idk what to do, and im suppose to go to her house today for a BBQ but im afraid if i see her i might her hurt. she thinks she all that and shes not!

-In Someone Who is HIV+?

In my Case, I was Repeatedly Misdiagnosed With PML (Over my Objections), HIV Encephalitis, Until I Finally Started Myself On Acyclovir, By then, a Great Deal of Damage was Already Done.

A Paper On presentations:

Herpesvirus infections of the nervous system.
Gilden DH, Mahalingam R, Cohrs RJ, Tyler KL.

Department of Neurology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80262, USA. don.gilden@uchsc.edu

There are eight human herpesviruses (HHVs). Primary infection by any of the eight viruses, usually occurring in childhood, is either asymptomatic or produces fever and rash of skin or mucous membranes; other organs might be involved on rare occasions. After primary infection, the virus becomes latent in ganglia or lymphoid tissue. With the exception of HHV-8, which causes Kaposi’s sarcoma in patients with AIDS, reactivation of HHVs can produce one or more of the following complications: meningitis, encephalitis, myelitis, vasculopathy, ganglioneuritis, retinal necrosis and optic neuritis. Disease can be monophasic, recurrent or chronic. Infection with each herpesvirus produces distinctive clinical features and imaging abnormalities. This Review highlights the patterns of neurological symptoms and signs, along with the typical imaging abnormalities, produced by each of the HHVs. Optimal virological studies of blood, cerebrospinal fluid and affected tissue for confirmation of diagnosis are discussed; this is particularly important because some HHV infections of the nervous system can be treated successfully with antiviral agents.

PMID: 17279082 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Thanks Nima, PML was Dx’d Before Ventricle Enlargement was Seen.
Of Interest:

http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/cases/case25/mr1/012.html

I feel so horrible. Yesterday i was at my g/fs house. She’s paralyzed and was in bed, and i was turned the other way putting in a movie while she was taking her medication for lupus and transverse myelitis. When i turned around, the water was spilled all over the bed, and her lupus had flared and stopped her breathing. I panicked and dint know what to do.

She soon was able to breathe again and i comforted her and wouldnt let go of her. Just to think that less than an hour before that, i had proposed to her and she said yes.

Now note she didnt choke on the pill, her lupus had been flaring and thats one of the things that happened. Im glad she didnt die, but idk how i would react if she did. Idk what im trying to ask, but have you ever panicked like that and not known what to do?

I’m getting a little freaked out with how things happen, after I wish for things. It started about 10 years ago, I was always curious about people getting headaches because I never got one. I couldn’t understand why they’d say it was so terrible, and I would wish I could get one just to see what it was all about (weird, I know but I couldnt even get a brain freeze before my throat would freeze over!) Anyways, I got my first headache when I became extremely ill and was diagnosed with Transverse Myelitis. I became paralyzed from the waist down – but I got my headache. I’m completely recovered now, Thank God.
The next large incident that happened, was when I was getting married. My husband’s grandparents had always given him money to put into stocks and trusts, so he saw his first million when he was in his 20s. With that much money, and some things that had happened with his family with trusting of other people, he wanted a Pre-Nup. I was against prenups, but I loved him so much I agreed to sign. But throughout the whole process, I strongly wished he didnt have as much money that he did so I wouldnt have to go through this and he would just straight up trust me. We got married, and a few months later- his largest stock went from over 20 dollars a share to 30 cents.

Now, most recently, I’m still happily married but when we would get in arguments *my husband has a smidge of an anger problem when we’re arguing* I would think about this good guy I dated in highschool, and wonder ‘would he have been like this?’ And I actually posted a question on here just 2 weeks ago about it…but I was Wishing that I wouldnt think these ‘what ifs’ about my ex.
Then, 2 days ago I find out he was accidentally shot.
This guy made it through Iraq for 4 years, and comes back and is out hunting and the one bullet that is shot at that time gets him??

Has anyone else had this type of thing happen to them? I’m beginning to really get freaked out that when I strongly wish things, I get my wish…just in the most terrible way. Or am I just being paranoid…