I woke up with a stiff neck - hours later I was totally paralysed

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'I woke up with a stiff neck – hours later I was totally paralysed'

, Digital Health & Fitness ReporterA HEALTHY young woman woke up with a stiff neck one morning - hours later she was paralysed.

The 24-year-old was actually suffering transverse myelitis, which causes inflammation of the spinal cord and damages nerve cells."I was struggling to breathe and all of a sudden I was having pains in my arm."I really started to panic then.

Attacks of inflammation can damage or destroy myelin, the fatty insulating substance that covers nerve cell fibres. She has seven hours of care a day, two hours of which takes up her morning routine and one hour for her night time routine.She said: "I can move my arms enough to feed myself but I can't cut up food or prepare anything like that."Last year, when it was really hot, I couldn't even get outside by myself to sit out in the sunshine.

Helen's condition affects around 300 people a year, and it is a neurological disorder caused by inflammation in the spinal cord.

 

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