I've gone through a lot of change. I used to be heavily left hemisphere and extremnely math oriented. My verbal skills were OK but I had great difficulty in understanding others and some difficulty articulating some concepts. My ability to see connections was simply astounding though.

I'm much different now. It feels like the RSD has affected my amygdala, brain stem and the ganglia/ nervous system of my arm. Some of the changes are the result of medication such as the lessened ability to make connections is the neurontin. The ability to obsess/ focus on some small thing is decreased by depakote (possibly). But now I'm far more verbal and far more hemispherically balanced. My math ability is mostly gone but I still retain some physical modeling in another part of the brain and simple math is still within my grasp. My doctors think I'm nuts, of course, but I'd wager this stuff would show up on quantitative testing were it available and on record. The brain/ body connection is total. Our body parts have their own consciousnesses of which we aren't aware and I'd have happily never known this if not for the RSD.