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At the moment my left arm has medically induced complete paralysis, no feeling, power, etc. It just hangs there, sometimes I don't even know where it is and am getting the odd phantom itch. Seriously wierd one of my fingers has just started twitching. Apparently it will wear off tonight and then the pain will kick in. Interesting to experience a small percentage of the problems some people face day to day
Shoulder op, perchance.
Very strange feeling isn't it - they told me to be careful taking the sling off. Feeling comes back in the fingers first.
Yes, the sling removal is odd you look down and there's an arm dangling !
I had Guillain Barre syndrome in 2010, I couldn’t move anything from my head down. It was nuts.
My legs spontaneously switched off from the knees down for about 5 months a few years back. Paulosoxo’s experiences with GBS, that he’d recounted here, were quite fresh in my mind at the time and that was the first thing the docs suspected as the symmetry of the paralysis was pretty indicative of that.
What caused it then?
Dunno. Neurologists are a bit thin on the ground here. In 5 months I never got to see one. Then it got better all by itself.
Scary
Have they encouraged you to keep the sling on until the feeling comes back, so as not to inadvertently dislocate the shoulder?
> Dunno. Neurologists are a bit thin on the ground here. In 5 months I never got to see one. Then it got better all by itself.
It's great to hear that the conditi9n resolved itself, you must have been very relieved! Was the doctor worried that it was something like cauda equina syndrome?
Was the doctor worried that it was something like cauda equina syndrome?
The poor young doctor in A&E certainly had to eliminate it from her enquires
But non of the associated symptoms with back pain or the waterworks
As mentioned Sling on till I regain control, better this morning arms are surprisingly heavy as deadweight. Just about to sit back and start a new book - Under the knife, the history of surgery in 28 remarkable operations 🙂