I was diagnosed with myelomalacia in 2006. Previously had had sudden increase in nerve pain and deterioration of walking ability. I had a spinal decompression operation with laminectomy (L4/5) the same year. Since that time my condition has stabilised, I can't detect any further deterioration, but no improvement either. Nothing was said about bleeding.

I did have bowel trouble around the same time and also intermittently since the operation, but this has recently been diagnosed as due to ulcerative colitis, an Inflammatory Bowel Disease, which has no known cause and 'flares up' between periods of remission.