Hello again, after a bit of an absence. On the face of it, not much has changed for me really in the last little while. But, there are subtle differences I am seeing as things go on.
I had what may have been another attack a couple of months ago. It is hard to tell if it was a real attack, or just a continuation of what has been happening all along. I had a bit of neck and upper shoulder discomfort followed by extreme weakness to my lower back and with some pain in the region of my tailbone. This went a bit lower actually, into my upper legs, and then seemed to reverse up my back again and ended up with weakness across the bottom edge of scapulas. I am left now with residual pain at times in my right arm and into shoulder that impacts range of motion, strength of my arm and my ability to sleep comfortably on my right side, just like the old days following my original attack in the shoulder. Along with this, I have a pronounced weakness in my right calf area (near as I can tell the Gastrocnemius muscle area).
What makes it seem like an attack is the general progression of discomfort and weakness. But, there was no major pain. I know from sites and publications that sometimes there is not a lot of pain particularly with HNA, so maybe this is all normal.
I may remember the initial pain for my shoulder attack. Did I say this before? Anyway, in 2002 I had been training for a bike ride. This was a year or so after my hand and finger issue, so I would still have had a partially paralyzed hand at this time. The morning of the ride, I woke up and had extreme pain in the area behind my right shoulder blade and could barely hold my head up normally. That was around 4 years prior to the collapse and eventually winging of the scapulas. And in a long trip by car in mid 2006, I experienced the first sensations of shakiness that I have now as I repeatedly had to exit and enter the car on this trip across country where I was the only driver. This trip was just a few months prior to the pain in Oct of 2006 that is linked to my scapular winging beginning. At the time I assumed this shakiness was due to the long hours of driving daily, but now I know it was an early indication of the onset of the next phase of NA.
