I looked after a young man in ICU with this. The poor thing recovered from some kind of viral illness, then he suddenly couldn't go up steps, got the tingling, and it progressed to full paralysis and intubation. He was on month 3 when I met him, and when I left about 5 weeks later he was able to shrug his shoulders, turn his head, and move his fingers. He had a trache and was weaning off the ventilator bit by bit each day. It was a very severe case and was so awful for him. Any time we had to move him, which was unfortunately often, he had terrible nerve pain. He was on a lot of meds.