My Introduction ()

[Guest guest]

Hello Everybody!

My name is . I am 42 years old and live near Germany's capital

Berlin. I always walked " funny " due to an operation that I had as a

small child. And I was stumbling and falling every now and then. But I

loved to walk often and for long distances.

However, it was at the last day of a weekend citytour to Hungary's

capital Budapest in the summer of 2003 that I suddenly experienced a

rapid loss of strenght in my legs. In the days to follow I realized a

numbness in my feet and up to my knees but could not tell when it had

started. A neurologist diagnosed CMT three weeks later and six month

after that I lost sensitivity in the better part of both hands.

I tried in vain to find a German CMT-group. But thanks to the internet

I found and I've been lurking here for a while now. There is a

calm, warm and supportive athmosphere in this group. And I like the

way advice is given and taken here.

Thus, let me add a question: Winter is on its way and I am nursing the

idea to get a vaccination against influenza. How are your experiences

with vaccination and CMT? (I already searched the group's archive and

polls without success.)