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[ThomCat]

For those of you who are interested...

A few months ago I suddenly lost the ability to speak for a few days. My neurologist immediately took me off one of my meds and I gradually got my voice back but now I stutter. It's bad when my pain and/or tremors are bad, or when I'm under a lot of stress. But when I'm relaxed and properly medicated the stutter almost goes away.

They thought for a while that I had a stroke. The MRI was negative, so it doesn't look like I had a stroke. So now they're considering some kind of seisure disorder. I'm going through more tests.

One of my doctors is still convinced it was a small stroke that somehow just hasn't been detected. He is generally the sharpest of my doctors, so maybe it really was a stroke. But at this point, who knows.

My tremors are visibly worse. I shake a lot now; head, neck, hands and arms. If I wasn't sitting down I'd probably have other tremors but I'm pretty much anchored to the chair.

My pain levels are going up. My use of painkiller has gone up x6 in the past year. I probably have to start using a constant delivery patch combined with pills for the spikes. That's the next converstation with my pain management doctor.

That's where things are right now... I'll share the details of going on disability as they happen. :)