[tshadow]

If you have had TOS surgery, as I have, please check out information on Myasthenia Gravis. The symptoms are remarkably similar!!!

Let me know what you think.

Tamara

[Jomar]

Interesting...

[Myasthenia gravis is a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease characterized by varying degrees of weakness of the skeletal (voluntary) muscles of the body.]


[What are the symptoms of myasthenia gravis? (MG)

Although myasthenia gravis may affect any voluntary muscle, muscles that control eye and eyelid movement, facial expression, and swallowing are most frequently affected. The onset of the disorder may be sudden and symptoms often are not immediately recognized as myasthenia gravis.

In most cases, the first noticeable symptom is weakness of the eye muscles. In others, difficulty in swallowing and slurred speech may be the first signs. The degree of muscle weakness involved in myasthenia gravis varies greatly among individuals, ranging from a localized form limited to eye muscles (ocular myasthenia), to a severe or generalized form in which many muscles—sometimes including those that control breathing—are affected. Symptoms, which vary in type and severity, may include a drooping of one or both eyelids (ptosis), blurred or double vision (diplopia) due to weakness of the muscles that control eye movements, unstable or waddling gait, a change in facial expression, difficulty in swallowing, shortness of breath, impaired speech (dysarthria), and weakness is the arms, hands, fingers, legs, and neck.]
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/m...nia_gravis.htm

We have a MG forum here if anyone is looking for more info.
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum77.html

[finz]

A lot of those eye/facial symptoms also go with Horner's Syndrome (which you get the tempory symptoms of just after a successful stellate ganglion block......a blockade of the nerves just up from the thoracic outlet)