Bobby,

     Don't forget I wear an arm brace to keep my fingers straight.  The
only time that I get spasms is when I wear the brace and don't have my
arm elevated.  People around here who have had the Baclofen in the past
say 5that I may never need to wear my armm brace again, but the brace does
help, it is just the problems with the spasms.


Chester Worwa


On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Bobby Greer wrote:

> Chester,
>
>         I would check with someone in wholistic medicine. Baclofen may be
> the answer, but it has side-effects which affects individuals differently.
> Is there a massage, orthotic or sometime else which may help. Some people
> may laugh, but have you checked out health food stores for herbs and the
> like?
>
> Bobby
>
>
> >Jill and everybody,
> >
> >     I went to the neuro today and showed him what you wrote, Jill.  He
> >said that it is right, but a sling may do more damage than help.  He told
> >me to take a year to contemplate getting Bacflolin (sp) injections right
> >into the arm muscle itself.  I do not know what to do because he said that
> >he doesn't know how I will react to it and the though of getting a needle
> >in me every 3 months does not sound like fun and also I might be moving
> >to a different state after I graduate in about a year.  I just need
> >sugestions.
> >
> >
> >Chester Worwa
> >
> >
> >
> >On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Jill Jacobs wrote:
> >
> >>  Chester,
> >>
> >> HA!  Doctors do NOT always know what they are talking about.  They know what
> >> they have learned in school, and they know what they have learned from
> >> experience dealing with patients.  However, I have found that a great many
> >> 'experts' have not assimiliated one damn smidgen of what they have
> >> experienced (working with patients) into their repertoire.
> >>
> >> *You* know what is best for you.  The doctors, therapists, etc that work
> >> with you should listen to what you say you are experiencing (whether it is
> >> pain, spasms, any sensation or feeling), share their insight, and *then*, as
> >> a *team* develop a plan to manage it.
> >>
> >> Jill A. Jacobs
> >>
> >>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>  To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.   ~Abraham
> >> Lincoln
> >>
> >>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >> The hope of the world is still in dedicated minorities. The trailblazers in
> >> human, academic, scientific, and religious freedom have always been in the
> >> minority. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
> >>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>
>