The diagnosis is "Stiff man syndrome" - plenty about it on the net.

Apparently there are only 90 cases known in this Country, so the chances of finding another WRA out there who has had one of these and got DLA for it are probably remote - but if there is one, I like to hear from you...

Wed 23-Apr-08 11:11 AM by past caring 1

I so want to make a lewd joke about this, especially given the "I like to hear from you" typo.

Sorry.

...which only goes to show that there's a certain lack of class on this site - there was a time when the serfs knew their place - I blame the likes of Thomas Paine etc for using big words like equality - putting ideas in their heads.....

Anyway, with your back to the wall, put your best foot forward, shoulder to the wheel, nose to the grindstone and don't look too surprised when you fall flat on one's face.......

PS - when ladies use a Satnav, do they turn it upside down when driving south - like they use to when using a map...?

"PS - when ladies use a Satnav, do they turn it upside down when driving south - like they use to when using a map...? "

careful mike ...

Thomas was one of the wisest minds to come from Norfolk, and I believe that there are those who argue that leaving Norfolk was one of the wisest things he did.

Are you quite as familiar with the ideas of Mary Wollestonecraft though, Mike?

I vaguely recall being taught to orientate the map in the direction I was going in when doing my map reading badge in the Cub Scouts....

What is wrong with turning map upside down?? Some people!!

Who are these 'ladies' Mike's talking about?

"I like to hear from you" type ladies?

Excuse me, I seem to have wandered into Little Britain!

you lucky boy - surrounded by ladies going about their ladylike business like any other normal ladies...

Anyway, if I was sexist (which obviously I'm not) I'd say that turning maps the wrong way up was an example of the superior lady brain in action.

Lol! Just my bloody luck. Surrounded by ladies with moustaches!

*ahem* - Ros, the only time you were in my presence and map-reading skills were required (half-way up St Sunday Crag a couple of years back), you showed a most ladylike disinclination to peruse the chart whichever way it was pointed!!

Can the thread be renamed Ooooooooooh Matron!

My name is Sam Tyler, I had a accident and woke up in 1973. Am I mad, in a coma, or back in time? What ever has happened, its like I landed on a differnet planet, and if I can figure out the reason, maybe I can get home!

there's nothing i can say now which wouldn't end with a fnah fnah...lol!

jan
cracked up

I am voting this thread to be best ever. And poor Mike still doesn't know anything about his "stiff man" !

To get back to the query.

Mike, if you Google UK sites for "stiff man syndrome" you will come to the organiastion "Contact a family". It has a very informative page on the condition, and looks as if it offers the opportunity to get in touch with people who have experience of the disorder.

It strongly suggests that, like many other autoimmune diseases, it is of hugely variable manifestation and thus as ever the way it affects your indiviudla client is what matters, rather than what could theoretically happen.

the site suggests that the incidence is rather higher that suggested - maybe 1 in 200,000 - and that it strongly correlates with diabetes, 40% of those affects being diabetic.

http://www.cafamily.org.uk/Direct/s55.html