TM symptoms worse with cold/flu?

For anyone else with Transverse Myelitis, do your spinal/neuro symptoms get worse when you're sick with a cold or flu? I'm down with the THIRD cold/flu since New Years - which has to be a record, and every time I get sick my neuro symptoms get worse and it feels like I'm in the early stages of when TM hit, which is very scary. I'm already a wheelchair user and permanently disabled from this shit, then the slightest cold goes and wipes me out hard. I'm trying not to stress but worry that it's triggering additional inflammation and damage in the spinal cord. My local ER sucks with these things and I'm too sick to hang out in a waiting room for hours just to have them shrug and send me home. Anyone else have experience with this?