TRANSVERSE MYELITIS is a neurological disease that can affect any age or gender. The body's immune system attacks the spinal nerve coating, creates a lesion, and basically shorts it out. A person is affected from the lesion down. Why the immune system attacks its own body is usually unknown. Extreme pain, paralysis, numbness, bowel and bladder problems, sexual dysfunction, muscle spasms, fatigue, odd sensory feelings in the affected area, and weakness in the limbs, are some of the typical symptoms. Approximately 2 to 5 people per million develop TM, with 15 to 40 percent of them developing Multiple Sclerosis. As of this time, there is NO cure.
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