TOTAL NUMBER OF RESPONDENTS: 317
(percentage figures rounded to nearest integer; those less than 1% excluded)
AGE GROUPS:
- 30-40: 16 = 5%
- 40-50: 55 = 17%
- 50-60: 124 = 39%
- 60-70: 84 = 27%
- 70-80: 36 = 11%
- 80-90 : 2
GENDER:
- MALE: 94 = 30%
- FEMALE: 223 = 70%
TIME SINCE DIAGNOSIS (YEARS)
(17 = 5% unspecified)
- 1 - 5: 87 = 27%
- 5 -10: 80 = 25%
- MORE THAN 10: 133=42%
LEVEL OF LESION (S):
- LUMBAR: 277 = 87%
LUMBAR LESION ONLY:
- 186 = 59%
THORACIC:
- 75 = 24%
CERVICAL:
- 62 = 20%
WIDESPREAD:
- 131 = 41%
CRANIAL:
- 43 = 14%
RISK FACTORS:
- TRAUMA: 25=8%
- STENOSIS: 59 = 19%
- SPINAL SURGERY: 236 = 74%
- OIL-BASED MYELOGRAM: 183 = 58%
- WATER-BASED MYELOGRAM: 95 = 30%
- UNSPECIFIED MYELOGRAM: 63 = 20%
- SPINAL/EPIDURAL ANAESTHETIC: 73 = 24%
- EPIDURAL STEROID INJECTION: 193 = 61%
- MENINGITIS(including chemical): 23 = 7%
- CHYMOPAPAIN: 4
- LUMBAR PUNCTURE: 7 = 2%
- SUBARACHNOID HAEMORRHAGE: 2
- SPINAL TUMOUR: 3
- EPENDYMOBLASTOMA: 1
- DURAL TEAR/PUNCTURE/CSF LEAK: 8 = 2%
FURTHER DATA ABOUT MYELOGRAMS:
TOTAL NUMBER OF CASES WHO HAD A MYELOGRAM: 267=85%
OF ALL RESPONDENTS SINGLE MYELOGRAM: 146
MULTIPLE MYELOGRAMS: 121
CASES WITH OIL-BASED ONLY: 117 (44% OF TOTAL NUMBER OF MYELOGRAMS)
CASES WITH WATER-BASED ONLY: 44 (16% OF TOTAL)
CASES WITH BOTH: 49 (18% OF TOTAL)
UNSPECIFIED: 57(21% OF TOTAL)
CHEMICALLY INDUCED ARACHNOIDITIS (NO OTHER RISK FACTORS): 40 = 13%
MISCELLANEOUS ASSOCIATED CONDITIONS:
- SYRINGOMYELIA: 6 = 2%
- ARACHNOID CYST: 1
- ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION 1: 1
- PARS DEFECT:1
- CONGENITAL BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD DEFECTS:1
- SPINA BIFIDA OCCULTA: 12=4%
- TETHERED CORD: 3 + DIASTIGMATIC MYELIA:1
- SPINAL ABSCESS: 2
- POST-OPERATIVE INFECTION(SPINAL): 2
- TARLOV CYSTS: 2
- CONGENITAL KYPHOSCOLIOSIS: 1 POSSIBLE ASSOCIATED FACTORS:
- RHIZOLYSIS: 2
- RACZ PROCEDURE(HYALURONIDASE): 1
PREVIOUS SERIOUS VIRAL INFECTION
- (EBV*,HERPES ZOSTER**, HEPATITIS ETC.): 41=13%
- MUMPS ENCEPHALITIS: 1
- TUBERCULOSIS: 4
- POLIOMYELITIS 2 + 1?
*EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS=GLANDULAR FEVER/INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS
**CHICKEN POX/SHINGLES
OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASE:
- LYME DISEASE: 1
- BRUCELLOSIS: 2
- RHEUMATIC FEVER: 2
- TYPHOID : 1 Results:
SYMPTOMS/SIGNS TOTAL NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 317
(223 Female 94 Male)
Age range : 30-82
Mean age group:50-60
- Pain: 100% (see accompanying notes)
- Stiffness : 79%
- Muscle cramps/twitches/spasms 81%
- Weakness 82%
- Balance difficulties 70%
- Numbness/tingling 86%
- Bladder/bowel/sexual dysfunction 68%
- Difficulty in thinking clearly/decision making/memory 63%
- Depression/anxiety 62%
- Sleep disturbance 84%
- Increased sweating 63%
- Heat intolerance 58%
- Intermittent low grade fevers 28%
- Flu-like feeling and malaise 42%
- Raised ESR /white cell count 14%
- Enlarged lymph nodes 10%
- Joint pains 72%
- Skin rashes 32%
- Frequent infections 20 %
- Sinusitis 32%
- Slow healing/tendency to scar easily 29%
- Limb/generalised swelling 38%
- Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy: 3
- Trouble swallowing 27%
- Angina type chest pain (but no heart disease found) 31%
- Weight gain 50%
- Reduced mobility (i.e. house/chair/bed bound?) 68%
- Allergies (new, e.g. multiple drug allergies)
- 25% Dizziness/vertigo 44%
- Dry eyes/mouth 58%
- Bruising 39%
- Fatigue 76%
- Dental problems (tooth/gum)
- 28% Low potassium 10%
- Abnormal blood tests 13%
- Abnormal kidney function
- 7% Abnormal liver enzymes
- 7% chemical hepatitis 1
- Osteoporosis 14%
- Shortness of breath 32%
- Lung problems 10% Gastrointestinal problems: general 41%
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome 8%,
- Visual problems 45%
- (Women) menstrual irregularities (if pre-menopausal)/early menopause/painful periods 14%
Diagnosis of Autoimmune disorder:
- Ankylosing Spondylitis 4;
- Autoimune hearing loss 1;
- Autoimmune pancreatitis 2;
- Coeliac disease: 1;
- Crohn's disease: 2;
- Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus 12;
- Endometriosis 4;
- Haemolytic Anaemia 1;
- Lupus 5 (incl. 1 discoid) + 4 ?;
- Multiple Sclerosis 11 + 3?;
- Polymyalgia Rheumatica 4;
- Psoriasis 1;
- Psoriatic arthritis 1;
- Raynaud's disease 26;
- Rheumatoid Arthritis 23;
- Sarcoidosis : 1; Sjogren's disease 3+ 2?
- Thyroiditis/Hypothyroidism 20;
- Ulcerative Colitis 1;
- Uveitis/Iritis 1;
- Vitiligo 1;
- Pernicious Anaemia: 1;
- Miscellaneous Autoimmune 9;
- Fibromyalgia: 19; ?FMS 2;
- Total (incl.FMS) = 154 = 48%;
- Number of cases*= 87 + 11 FMS = 98 = 30% prevalence.
(*i.e. with one or more diagnosed autoimmune conditions)
Diagnosis of:
- Multiple Chemical Sensitivity 2;
- Myalgic Encephalopathy 1+1?;
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome 3;
- Myofascial Syndrome 1;
- Myalgia 1
Other neurological diagnoses:
- Epilepsy: 3;
- Parkinson's 1;
- Peripheral neuropathy 1;
- Postpolio syndrome: 1
Miscellaneous conditions:
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: 1;
- Paget's disease: 1;
- Erythema nodosum 1;
- Renal calculi: 7;
- general renal problems (e.g hydronephrosis,haematuria):13;
- Hiatus hernia/reflux oesophagitis: 8
- Chronic leukaemia 1;
- Thyroid cysts: 2 (see below)
Tumours:
- Breast: 5;
- Prostate 2;
- bladder 1;
- cervical 1;
- thyroid 2;
- ovarian 1;
- pituitary 1;
- colorectal 1;
- renal 1(with lung metastases);
- "bowel" 1;
- malignant melanoma 1;
- Melanoma: 1;
- Lymphoma:1
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