Brain

[Brian_Rice]

Was waiting for the results of an MRI for a week after they found a mass in my brain. Pretty much just had to watch movies and cartoons non stop so I wouldn't have to think about it. Finally got the results today that it's a cyst. They'll have to check it out every 5 years or so, but it's not cancer. Good day. Freaky week.

 

[vcassel]

Do you have any symptoms that pointed to them checking it out? Jeez, I can only imagine the stress. I haven't gotten checked up in over a decade. I smoked for a decade, too.

 

[ugafan]

 

[Brian_Rice]

Do you have any symptoms that pointed to them checking it out? Jeez, I can only imagine the stress. I haven't gotten checked up in over a decade. I smoked for a decade, too.

I have tingling on the left side of my face. There's something called the trigeminal (sp) nerve that's probably causing it. But that's why I went in for the MRI in the first place. It turned out that the cyst is actually on the right side and so isn't causing the tingling. My chiro has been working on the jaw area, etc. We're going to continue that course.

 

[ugafan]

I have tingling on the left side of my face. There's something called the trigeminal (sp) nerve that's probably causing it. But that's why I went in for the MRI in the first place. It turned out that the cyst is actually on the right side and so isn't causing the tingling. My chiro has been working on the jaw area, etc. We're going to continue that course.

sorry to hear about your unfortunate situation. the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body so that would be the correct side to be causing problems. maybe it's the location on the right side that leads the neurologist to believe it's not related. is the work on the jaw being done to treat the tingling, or is it a separate issue? does he use electrical stimulation on the area?

 

[Brian_Rice]

sorry to hear about your unfortunate situation. the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body so that would be the correct side to be causing problems. maybe it's the location on the right side that leads the neurologist to believe it's not related. is the work on the jaw being done to treat the tingling, or is it a separate issue? does he use electrical stimulation on the area?

Sensory and motor performance aren't the same thing with regards what you're talking about with brain hemisphers. E.g. the nerves on the right side of the brain affect the right side of the body, not the left side. You can trace their paths the same as veins. So the nerve issues on the left side can only be caused from nerve issues on the left side.

The work on the jaw was being performed to help with the more isolated tingling at the corner of my mouth that spread overnight to the entire left side of my face after a severe fever and joint pain. What I'm left with after that ordeal is what I can only identify as nerve "damage" -- if you've ever had any nerve damage from an injury you know what it feels like. I've had a host of other issues over the last few years, most of which have been corrected with lots of antibiotics and physical therapy. Right now the only thing that's left (caused by prolonged illness) is my hiatal hernia which causes in me low-acid production as well as non-acid reflux. Since the hernia doesn't need operating, it should be cleared up (hopefully) in the next several months via my prescriptions and special diet.

I've been cleared by every single blood test and possible infectious disease and virus, slowly taking care of things as we've found them. At one point I had three different blood infections and a stomach infection running simultaneously. My primary doctor believes that I also had some things going on that we'll never know about because of the fever that occured after an especially intense physical therapy session. All of this has gone on for about 4 years and the hope is now that I'm on the other side of it and can start doing some of the normal things that I used to do.

If it is a kind of nerve damage somewhere around my brain stem or in the trigeminal nerve, then it's just the way it is. I was in a lot of violent confrontations when I was a kid and have been beat in the head and body with bats and pipes, kicked and punched the way things happen; I also jumped off a 50 foot cliff and missed the water and was bed ridden with injuries for an entire summer, so it's possible that it's just minor complications from those experiences. It's still possible, though, that physical therapy will work it all out in the end.

Longer version.