The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I had a stroke in December of '99, and it affected my left side - my fingering side.
Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new movement in my right arm. It's fractional progress, and it took a long time, but my arm moves when I tell it to.
My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic.
My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic. I have a bad nerve in the back of my eye.
I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.
Pain is weakness leaving the body.
I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.
I got what they called a diabetic stroke. Here's what it is, my left hand and my left leg. You know when your leg falls asleep? It's like that constantly. It's not painful, but it's so annoying. My leg is all tingly and my arm is all tingly.