The Weirdest Thing Happened To Me This Morning
 

Early this morning, I woke up needing to use the bathroom. As I was doing my thing, my nose began to itch, so I tried to scratch it. The weird thing was that everytime I tried to scratch it, I couldn't get my fingers on my right hand to touch my nose. They instead would go to the left side of my face. I tried my left hand and I could do it without any problems. What is even weirder was that my arm was not asleep. :confused:

I went back to bed and I awoke to find that my hand is working fine.

Has anyone ever had something like that happened?

sounds like you just had nerve miscommunication (although i don't know the technical term for it)

You need to go the emergency room RIGHT NOW!!!!!!

Well, I don't think it is serious yet. I do have an appointment with my neurosurgeon on the 15th. I'll tell him then and see what he has to say.

It's Satan! THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU! THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!

Maybe you need one of those new sleep number beds.

With the kind of luck I have, I wouldn't be surprised. :D

I could make a great Okie joke out of this, but I'm just not in the mood... :D

You say that you are seeing your neurosurgeon. Have you had issues in the past? Forgive me if you've shared some of this on the board before, but I must have missed it.

"What's the matter, mister kimbal?"
"Oh, I have a headache."
"Maybe it's a tumor!"
"It's not a tumor. It's not a tumor. At all."

Might have been a good time for The Stranger.

you know, that was my first thought, I mean does everybody has an assigned neurosurgeon. I know I don't and hopefully I will never need one...

Good luck with this anyway duckman.

FM

Completely True Story:

Several years ago my wife had a headache which was an uncommon side effect of a drug she had just started taking. She called in to her doctor's office to tell them and basically ask for a different drug. Her doctor wasn't there so she talked to the doctor on call. She told him what was going on and his response was "That's not a side effect of the drug so I don't think it's the drug, it's possibly a brain tumor. You need to come in immediately for an exam." Yes, he diagnosed my wife for a brain tumor over the phone based on her having a headache...

Defensive medicine rules.

Was this the doctor on call?

And people say doctors don't care about having a good bedside manner.

"I'll perform any operation for $129.95! Come in for brain surgery and receive a free Chinese finger trap!"

Duckman, you and I can suffer through neuro appointments together...I have mine on the 16th and am having a spinal tap done :( My CT and MRI were normal (which is a good thing) but that doesn't help to explain why I've been having pain behind my eye for about a month now (which is a bad thing).

I'm just glad my wife has a medical background. She laughed the guy off and just contacted her regular doctor the next day. There's probably people out there that would have freaked out being told something like that over the phone though. Of course, the look on her face while she was on the phone with the guy was priceless. :D

That killed him

I once had the side of my face go numb for 5 minutes.Weirdest thing ever,I had sneezed a few minutes earlier and figure i piched a nerve.

I had surgery last year for my neck. I had the back of two vertebrae at the base of my skull removed because the canal was filling up.

I'm going in for an EMG/NCV. They're basically sticking me with needles in my right arm and sending electricity into them to see how my nerves are working. I had this done when I was in the Air Force on my right leg. It's not fun, but it's better than a spinal tap IMO.

That makes me feel so much better about my appt next week. Thanks :(

I saw a movie like that once. Turned out the guy had lost a hand and had a hand from an executed murderer sewn on to replace it. It strangled him in the end. So watch out for that.

Sorry about that. :(

No problem. I was already pretty stressed about it - you didn't make it any worse :)