Hi Jo55:

No, Alan never had any facial pain or spasms or anything like that.

Only his toes. That's where the PN is. had it for 15 years.

We can only cross our fingers that this new neurosurgeon can help him.


Now you talk about spasms. I've had spasms all my life. I'm kind of a neurotic person, (severe dental phobia). so I worry about everything.

Seven years ago I had bladder spasms that took me to every specialist known. Had every test known too!!!

They found nothing. One day it just went away. I can remember exactly where I was when the spasming stopped. I was taking a hot shower.

Now if that is what the hot shower did, then god bless the hot shower.

I had muscle spasms in my chest starting from when I was 24 (the first one), in my mom's living room in Florida. I was sitting on the couch and BAM!!! hit me like a squeeze in the left side of my chest. Didn't happen again for a long time. Then once I was in the kitchen and I reached for something and I knew I was going to get a spasm and I did.

Didn't happen again for years. As a matter of fact, once in a while I get a rectal spasm. In the middle of the night. Happened exactly twice in my life so I'm not going to lose sleep over it. I have spasms, I'm a nervous person. I took a xanax to relax myself. I sat on a heating pad. I went to sleep, it was gone in 10 minutes.

My son, when he was around 6 (we were in the school playground) and he says "oh, something funny just happened in my chest). I recognized it immediately for what it was. We immediately took him to his doctor who examined him and declared "oh that was a muscle spasm". He never had it again.

We're an odd bunch of ducks, aren't we??

melody