My MS weak side is my left side, but luckily I'm very right handed. A friend has right side weakness and she is right handed. She had to change her mini's gas pedal to the left side.

Lynn - I'm a righty and most of my trouble is on the left side. I am severely impaired on my right hand but I don't notice it at all. It shows up on testing though and they told me that my brain has rewired so I am still able to use that hand. Otherwise, I wouldn't. I don't know how this relates to lesion load but most of my lesions are on the left side, which you would think my right side would be worse.

I don't know, I guess I just wondered because one of my friends (an older gentleman who is badly MS affected) mentioned that theory to me (about being worse on your dominant side).

As far as lesion load goes, all of my lesions seem to be fairly evenly dispersed.

Interesting though, thanks for your input.

Lyn

Sometimes it's tingling. Sometimes it's a lack of sensation that is also an almost painful coldness. Not ordinary coldness but as if my bones are cold.

This probably doesn't make much sense.

Other times it's as if a part of me "isn't there." Sometimes my upper left side hasn't existed. I would look at it and think it wasn't mine. I couldn't move it either. I've had this with the left side of my face too.

Never a dull moment with this.

Ah - MS numbness is easy to explain. My lower legs are numb. They also hurt like the dickens. MS = numbness with pain. Go figure...

I don't understand. It's 3 o'clock in the morning and I can't sleep due to the pain in my legs but my lower legs are completely numb...

Tom

So sorry Tom. I'm one of the lucky ones who doesn't have chronic nerve pain. Unless you count the uncomfortable spasticity?

I have a high threshold for pain, but not for nerve pain, like toothaches, shingles..EEK

Thanks for stopping by. How's the spaceworld treating you? Anything interesting happening?

Hey Sally.

Same old thing here. Our next generation flight control room is about 75% built. We still have the space station control room 24/7. SpaceX keeps postponing their first commercial launch to the station and the other company keeps postponing their first ever launch.

I can't land the Orion on the asteroid in the simulator. I keep crashing or over-shooting. But that's why I'm not an astronaut. The new simulator is much more realistic than the old shuttle simulators. The asteroid in the simulator is very real - called "25143 Itokawa."

NASA's not dead - we had over 6,000 applicants for the next astronaut class in 2013. I guess asteroids and Mars sounds appealing to alot of folks. It keeps me working. Still very busy for me.

Tom

Hi Tom! We miss you around here. Sorry about the numbness but I can totally understand what you are feeling. It's odd to say my leg is numb and hurts in the same statement.

Well, I don't know that my numbness is the same b/c I don't really have pain with it. But I tell my GP that it's like when your leg goes to sleep and its just starting to wake up!

Feel better (((Tricia))).

My right leg is numb from the hip down.. my left arm is weak..I am right handed thank god... I'm still feeling spasticity in my legs/feet... the only way I can describe the numbness /pain is it feel like I have a blood pressure cuff on my leg and it's constantly squeezing..

The only meds pcp has me on is Lyrica and Elavil... neither of them are working for me... I'm just going to wait till I see neuro...


Cindy