Vaccines and Transverse Mylelitis

Transverse Myelitis is very dangerous and RARE. My spouse had it about six years ago and presented with horrific chest pain. He thought he was having a heart attack. They did numerous tests for both heart attack and stroke. Heart was fine. No stroke, so they sent him home. He walked into the hospital fine by the time he got home one leg was sloppy. We went back to the ER and they admitted him for observation. He had two more episodes in the hospital. They did an MRI of his spinal cord thinking he had pinched nerves. There are four quadrants. They checked three. Spinal fluid was clear. By this time he couldn’t walk. Neurologist came in and ordered the last quadrant scanned and boom! Spinal fluid was white! Transverse Myelitis! They gave him the same drug they use for leukemia at an ungodly amount. It was a super high twice a day I think for a couple of days. When he went home he could walk again. However, he had no feeling in one leg and his other leg felt like it was on fire. (Nerve damage) and one hand was very weak. We got really lucky. It took him two years to recover full feeling in the one leg and he still has sharp pains in his other leg but he is okay.

My point here is that the longer it takes to diagnose Transverse Myelitis the more dangerous it becomes. A person can be left a quadriplegic if it is not diagnosed in time.

If you know of someone that presents with my husbands symptoms, but there is nothing wrong with their heat, demand they check all four quadrants of the spinal cord for transverse myelitis.