| OT is the greatest Christmas present I've ever had. For two years I've been going to all kinds of doctors inluding eye ear nose & throat, orthopedec, rhumetoid and neurologists with no diagnosis. I've had MRI's with and without dye, total scans with dye,blood tests, nerve conduction tests still no diagnosis. My symptoms are at first a staggering walk, then falling and then walking with a cane and now a walker. I have no pain which seem to puzzle every doctor. I can walk by touching something. I have to be carfull leaning backward even a little without holding on, like when you close a freezer door and your too close. I will fall backward and can't stop myself. I know exactly when this all started and wonder if anyone else knows when theirs started. I had laser surgery for a partially detached retina. When I stood up my right leg was stiff and rather numb. I thought it was a nerve since I was sitting so long or even a minor stroke (I'm now 70 years old) Prior to this episode I was very active, weighed 120 lbs at 5ft1in and walked 2 miles or more every day and did 30 minutes of low inpact aroebics afterward. At this point I though I could walk out the stiffness and continued walking but soon found I was becoming very unsteady on my feet and was afraid I would fall in front of a car. I stopped walking but still picked up my grandaughter at her bus stop until that to got to be to much. Then I started to stumble and fall over practicly nothing. Soon my family bought me a cane and even that wasn't enough after awhile and I now use a walker. I have a very hard time getting up out of chairs and I can't get on hands and knees, can't take a shower without holding on to something, can't take a bath because I'd never be able to get out of the tub. Anyway i'm sure you get the picture. All of this and noone knows what's wrong with me until Christmas eve when a friend of my daughter's sent her the information about OT. It was like a Christmas miracle. I was starting to give up hope that I would ever know what happened to me, now I might even find something to help my symptoms. You can only imagine how happy and thankful I am to finally have an answer when some one says whats wrong with you. Sorry this is so long but I've just had all this inside me all this time and had to get it out. Thanks Gloria for this web site Best wishes to you and yours Peg, Maryland |