Hi CC,

To the best of my knowledge, TM generally causes symptoms of numbness, paralysis and sometimes spasticity on both sides of the body below the level of spinal lesion, but partial TM can cause symptoms just on one side of the body. The numbness usually starts in the feet and then works its way upward toward the level of the lesion.

It sounds like your 2007 bout with it may have been a partial TM; with the lesion level somewhere in the lumbar area.
That was what happened in my case.

If your current symptoms were from TM or partial TM, a lesion would need to be fairly high up (neck area) to affect the hands and head/neck area, but what you describe experiencing recently doesn’t sound like the typical symptoms of TM.

The symptoms of TM usually resolve over a period of months as well, which it sounds like it didn’t in your case from 2007. Thus it is also possible that you have an atypical type of TM or that you may have something else going on.

Have you made arrangements to get checked out? I think that would be the best thing to do.

I hope that you get some answers and get it resolved quickly.
Please let us know how you make out.

With love, Erika