No more running

Aug 18, 2016

By: Suze

Transverse myelitis

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My symptoms began following a holiday in Europe in 2008. A few days after arriving home, I tried to go for a run and my left leg felt "strange". My legs became progressively weaker over a three month period. My first neurologist could find nothing wrong after tests failed to show anything. When I could no longer feel the pedals in my car I was admitted to hospital. Many tests (spinal tap, MRI, blood tests) showed nothing but I was treated with IVIG, later with intravenous steroids. I left the hospital in a wheelchair and still use a wheelchair and a wheelie-walker to get around. One doctor said "It is unlikely you will walk unassisted again."