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Originally Posted by neurochick
.... I tried to tell my doctor about it but I really had no idea what words to use to describe it.... but when I told her "I feel something moving inside of me", she didn't beleive me... ....
so I waited two years before I mentioned it to a different doctor...and was recommended to a neurologist. Anyway, long story short, my neurologist tells me there's no nerve damage.... but yet I can't feel my right leg or arm well enough to feel my reflexes or my muscles in my upper leg and upper arm.
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First, I feel so badly for you. But gosh, just because your concussion was as swift as it was stupid doesn't make it any worse than my pay4it4ever alcoholism that I slowly drank myself into. I almost died from it before my 35th birthday. Just as self-induced as your youthful
faux pax. Thank god we're both still alive.
Second, I'd forget about why you did what you did (for the moment at least) & start asking what's wrong with these docs?
IMHO, you need to focus there--not on self-fixes for problem nerves.
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when I told her "I feel something moving inside of me", she didn't beleive me...
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She didn't
believe you???! Then she ought to have referred you. It wasn't her option to "not believe" you. Sorry, but she should be reported. Her ethics suck.
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my neurologist tells me there's no nerve damage.... but yet I can't feel my right leg or arm well enough to feel my reflexes or my muscles in my upper leg and upper arm.
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Again the doc ought to have referred you--either for a 2nd opinion examining for possible nerve damage or to another doctor concerning the source of your loss of feeling (if
not from damaged nerves).
But take in what the others have to say. I'm especially interested to hear what you learn over at the post-concussion forum. You deserve a much better "third try" on this.
