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#55482 09-10-2004 10:34 AM | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | It is known as L'Hermittes sign or syndrome. I had the medical oncologist saying it was the radiation and the radiation oncologist saying it was the chemo. It was first identified with MS patients. Here is a link that shows a connection to Cisplatin: http://www.medsafe.govt.nz/Profs/Datasheet/p/PlatinolAqinj.htm Sometimes I have to look down while walking down stairs to intensify the effect. It still makes me grin almost a year later but much more since Sabrina's "big dance"  . Ed
SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0 Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03 Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08. Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11 Cervical Myelitis 09/12 Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12 Dysautonomia 11/12 Hospice care 09/12-01/13. COPD 01/14 Intermittent CHF 6/15 Feeding tube NPO 03/16 VFI 12/2016 ORN 12/2017 Cardiac Event 06/2018 Bilateral VFI 01/2021 Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022 Bilateral VFI 05/2022 Total Laryngectomy 01/2023
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