I am so glad that you have found the site helpful, Shay. Thank you for your positive comments and your post here. I hope that your diagnosis will be something less serious than MS. BUT, that too can be helped.

Feel free to contact me through my site and I will do everything I can to help you find answers.

John

Most of my impairments or weaknesses have come to the right side, starting with loss of some vision at eleven in right eye. When I got Optic Neuritis many years later, it was right eye for eight years. Everything on my right side is slightly smaller than on my left, including my right foot, and I think I was born that way.

As for my dominant side, I am ambidextrous pretty nearly. I learned to write with my right hand, so I am considered right handed. However, if I try, I can write a sentence quite clearly with my left hand. I used my left hand primarily to eat with for many years when my hands were weak--the left one seemed to be the less weak of the two, so I instinctively started using the left.

the only neuro impairment I can definitely saw was on the left was foot drop, which I had for one week.

When I was in a clinical trial for xanax, they found I was nearly ambidextrous, and therefore tested me extensively, because they thought depression came from ambidextrousness. One of those tests showed a complete blank in an ability to put blocks together--just in one area--but they did not tell me what that showed.
I was groggy from xanax, so I didn't ask what it was about. The xanax afflected my porphyria, my other disease, which also has neurological impairments possible if left untreated, as mine was.

I believe that if I lost my right hand I could pick up doing everything with the left.

My eyes got well after the ON, and they are equal now--just a slight farsightedness in both, due to age, but otherwise equally good. The ON went away completely and did not return. It is interesting that the impairment I had in the right eye all my life went away when I got over ON--I no longer had astigmatism.

Mariel

Pretty much all of my ms related problems are on the left side. I have numb fingers and an occasionally draggy foot. I'd consider a diet, but have always been on the thin side. Anytime I even think about restrictions I drop another pound, or two, or three until I start to look like a prisoner of war. I have, however, noticed a distinct link between pork consumption and flare ups. I also notice a problem with flare-ups and green tea. How's that for odd?

Katty

8 corneal abrasions to the left eye, enlarged blind spot left eye, nyastmais (SP) left eye.
weak left leg, most symptoms in the left leg.
left breast cysts.
left foot drop.
Pain in my left hip.
hydnratis supurvia (SP) lymph node infection basically, left arm pit.
Ran over by a car at 4yr old, left leg, not that that has anything to do with anything though.
When they did my hysterectomy they left the right ovary, it didn't have cysts, (at that time)
I'm right handed, and have bigger lesions on the right side of my brain.
Pat