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Just wondering if this is strange or if I just chalk it up to weird things always happening to me.
It seems that almost every ailment/pain is on my left. And I mean from head to toe! Starting out at top with my eye, nothing serious, it just waters more than usual. Then I had an abscessed tooth on the upper left where I had a root canal and am still having some problems. I've also had a deep nasal infection on the left side. Next is my shoulder where I periodically get a pinched nerve and not to mention degenerative arthritis in my neck from a motorcycle accident that is partially responsible for the numbness in the left part of my left hand. Along with the mild case of carpal tunnel from playing the bass guitar that will also cause numbness in my left wrist. Now I have chronic pelvic pain where most of it is by my left ovary, partially caused by the cyst. But it isn't just in the ovary area, the pain spreads up my left side to about the middle of my bodice and permeates down the front and back of my left leg. Then lastly my left foot where I have plantar fibromatosis which can be extremely painful as I am on my feet all day for my job.
My GP says "Welcome to getting old!". Is this all just a coincidence and that I should add it to the pile of "weird" things that I deal with including anosmia ( lost sense of smell ) and being able to predict the weather due to vertigo attacks. ( I'm finding the anosmia is weird within weird as I have started smelling things that others cannot!! )
Or is there something else going on? Any advise would be great, even if it's quirky.
Thanks!!
It seems that almost every ailment/pain is on my left. And I mean from head to toe! Starting out at top with my eye, nothing serious, it just waters more than usual. Then I had an abscessed tooth on the upper left where I had a root canal and am still having some problems. I've also had a deep nasal infection on the left side. Next is my shoulder where I periodically get a pinched nerve and not to mention degenerative arthritis in my neck from a motorcycle accident that is partially responsible for the numbness in the left part of my left hand. Along with the mild case of carpal tunnel from playing the bass guitar that will also cause numbness in my left wrist. Now I have chronic pelvic pain where most of it is by my left ovary, partially caused by the cyst. But it isn't just in the ovary area, the pain spreads up my left side to about the middle of my bodice and permeates down the front and back of my left leg. Then lastly my left foot where I have plantar fibromatosis which can be extremely painful as I am on my feet all day for my job.
My GP says "Welcome to getting old!". Is this all just a coincidence and that I should add it to the pile of "weird" things that I deal with including anosmia ( lost sense of smell ) and being able to predict the weather due to vertigo attacks. ( I'm finding the anosmia is weird within weird as I have started smelling things that others cannot!! )
Or is there something else going on? Any advise would be great, even if it's quirky.
Thanks!!
I also have to mention that I was born with a small bald spot on the left side of my head!! LOL!
I am not making this up!
Have you asked your Doc's about this? About the lefty syndrome that you have going one???? I think that is very interesting and that maybe he/she should start looking at it. Let's hope that your left side stops misbehaving soon!
Hugs,
I know that some things can be from 'using' one side more, like sleeping on left side caused bald spot or something like that, chewing mostly on left side, etc.but gosh, poor SS - the things you're getting on the left seem to have no rhyme or reason.
Sure hope you just plain get well! Even old age isn't that bad! teehee
Hugzz ~Sandy~
I have to go through an MRI every 6 months to make sure that there are no physical changes to my brain - I know there are mental changes LOL
Maybe you could ask your neuro if he thinks it would be necessary if your symptoms are new and do not go away in a week or two? If you don't have a neuro, maybe you can ask to be referred to one?
Take care and Godspeed,
Eva