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From: Harry.London@f1000.n261.z1.fidonet.org (Harry London)
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Subject: Re: nerve damage
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Date: 28 Feb 91 02:10:38 GMT
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One thing that the doctors have all agreed upon is that there is an
inflammatory process, probably autoimmune related, within the spinal cord
that showed up in all the pictures as abnormally widened. Suspected tumor,
 which has been ruled out, or maybe sarcoids, cysts, or just plain
inflammation, specifically vasculitis. I did have spinal stenosis in the
cervical area which at first was thought to be the cause of weakening
right leg, but that was before the mris in the thoracic spine. The last
word on the subject is: "Whatever it was in there has burned itself out,"
but the damage to nerve cells remains, and appears permanent, to wit: "If
nothing has come back so far, it isn;'t likelyh to." What is likely is
that there was a sort of stroke within the spinal cord, which ould
function in thespinal cord much as a stroke in the brain...cutting off
supply of blood to nerve cells. So all in all, I don't think there is a
problem of bone. Incidentally, an around the corner neighbor had metal
lodged inside his spinal cord during WWII, and it wasn't until he'd been
home a good many years that he began to have what wer thought to be ms
symptoms, so I have some feeling for what you have described. Thanks for
sharing.
  Harry

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