Zaphoon
Extremely helpful member
- Joined
- Aug 2, 2008
- Messages
- 2,857
- Reason
- DX UMND/PLS
- Diagnosis
- 08/2011
- Country
- US
- State
- Missouri
- City
- Springfield
The V.A. has me diagnosed with "Presumptive PLS" (and the PLS doesn't stand for "please"). I have had a bad flare-up involving hip muscles for several weeks and this led me to knock on the door of my team's GP with the V.A. He let me in, examined me and decided he needed a CT scan on my lower trunk.
Got the results from Thursday's scan. I am impressed with the speed in which results are obtained from my V.A. clinic. I've had blood work taken at 0830 and the doc was reading the results to me 30 minutes later at 0900.
The "Aw, Shucks!" is that the scan was unremarkable with the exception of normal degeneration. My GP wrote, "The important finding is that no stenosis involving a nerve was present at any level." Aw, shucks! All of this time that I've been banking on them (the doctors) finding a pinched nerve has proven fruitless! Aw, shucks!
I paid my cramp candy bill so I no longer feel bad about taking it without having paid for it. The combo of baclofen and gabapentin taken together has proven to be of some benefit. The secret for me is keeping them both at a low dosage.
Blood work good - no thyroid, B12 or other issues... Aw, shucks!
MRI of brain, t-spine and c-spine clear... Aw, shucks!
EMG/NCV normal... Aw, shucks!
CT scan unremarkable... Aw, shucks!
PLS is like a ghost. Effects of its presence are visible but it is not. (Okay, it can be seen when they open up your head upon autopsy.) My head remains closed for the present!
Got the results from Thursday's scan. I am impressed with the speed in which results are obtained from my V.A. clinic. I've had blood work taken at 0830 and the doc was reading the results to me 30 minutes later at 0900.
The "Aw, Shucks!" is that the scan was unremarkable with the exception of normal degeneration. My GP wrote, "The important finding is that no stenosis involving a nerve was present at any level." Aw, shucks! All of this time that I've been banking on them (the doctors) finding a pinched nerve has proven fruitless! Aw, shucks!
I paid my cramp candy bill so I no longer feel bad about taking it without having paid for it. The combo of baclofen and gabapentin taken together has proven to be of some benefit. The secret for me is keeping them both at a low dosage.
Blood work good - no thyroid, B12 or other issues... Aw, shucks!
MRI of brain, t-spine and c-spine clear... Aw, shucks!
EMG/NCV normal... Aw, shucks!
CT scan unremarkable... Aw, shucks!
PLS is like a ghost. Effects of its presence are visible but it is not. (Okay, it can be seen when they open up your head upon autopsy.) My head remains closed for the present!
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