Re: Numb face, lip, jaw, chin, one side
Hi Ruby,
I get a funny feeling from time to time on the left side of my face, not exactly numbness or pins and needles but something I can't really describe. Sometimes it extends down my neck and further. It freaked me out at first, I thought I was having a stroke or something (though as I understand it, strokes are instant, they don't happen slowly over days or weeks) and then I thought MS or Parkinsons or other form of neurological disease (I have HA, obviously) I began to notice it only ever happened when I had been sitting in the car for a long time or sitting at one eld of the sofa in a particular position, so obviously a nerve is being pressed on or something when I do it.
A few years ago when I didn't have HA, I would have logically thought that it was just a bit of nerve compression and not thought any more about it. I think because I have HA, I am definitely more "tuned in" to what is happening in my body. Of course if you lean on one side for ages you may get pins and needles or a funny feeling and most people accept this as a normal event and don't think anythng more about it but HA makes you think it is a sign of something worse. Recently I have been looking at how my little fingers tremble a bit when I hold my hands out and wondering if it might be a sign of something dreadful but to be honest, I don't know if this is a new thing or they have always done that. I also know it can be absolutely normal for hands/ fingers to shake a bit if you hold them out, yet I still wonder. Sometimes I think my left side is weaker than my right and ponder on that being a symptom of some undiscovered disease yet I am right handed and logic tells me that holding something heavy with my left hand, especially when I am not used to doing so, would naturally feel less comfortable than doing it with my right.
You have seen both a doc and a dentist and they are not concerned so please try and take what they say and don't worry xx
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