Rex Trulove
Through yesterday, my left hand refused to work. It is difficult to close my hand or to get my fingers to work. Obviously, my right-hand works and that is what I’m using to type this. I don’t have signs of heart attack or stroke. My hand and arm don’t hurt and there is no numbness and no chest or head pain, it is just as if my hand isn’t getting signals from my brain.
Naturally, I didn’t realize how much I depend on my left hand. Without my left grip, it is hard or nearly impossible to wash dishes, cook, write, tie my shoelaces, feed my pets, hold a book to read, scratch an itch or so many other things.
I’m no doctor, but I fairly well ruled out a stroke or heart attack, but I couldn’t figure it out. Then I happened to stretch. I instantly felt a stabbing pain in my left shoulder socket. That told me that the issue could be a pinched nerve.
As it happens, my wife is going to physical therapy for sciatic nerve pain. She has a STEM unit that is used for electro-therapy. It delivers pulses of unpainful low-level electrical current. It doesn’t hurt at all. I used the STEM on my shoulder. I felt much better this morning and although not back to ‘normal’, I have some marginal use of my left hand, enough that I was able to tie my shoelaces this morning. That might not sound like much, but it is huge and I couldn’t do it yesterday, so it is a step in the right direction.
I still have no idea what I did to my shoulder, but I’m very thankful and now have hope of healing fairly quickly. By the way, I appreciate those who have wished me well. Thank you!
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When you think of electroshock-therapy do you think of a painful electrical shock?
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Yes
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No
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I hope your body can cure itself from this. I would be a little scared myself too, plus a little annoyed as well. It annoys me when my body fails me.
I like your little pun on the word “problrm” in your title, but seeing that the letter “r’ is right next to the letter “e”, perhaps it was just a typo that your left hand would have gotten right, and not left it there…LOL…if it was working as usual.
It really was an accident and probably wouldn’t have even happened one-handed, if the letters weren’t worn off the keyboard. 😀
It’s annoying here sometimes that we can’t edit past typos on this site. ?
Yes, it is annoying. It takes twice as long to do anything, to begin with. It is getting better, little by little, though.
I think that I might have gone to a doctor, but then, if you did, they (general practitioners) usually do not know, and so send you for endless tests to other specialists, hardly any of which are really required.
I am glad you are on the mend and you discovered what the problem was.
Thank you. it had me puzzled and I’ll admit a little scared.
Are you suffering from diabetes ?
No, I’m not diabetic.
Wishing you recovery….