Recent content by occasins

Thanks for the comments, they make me feel... well, anyway, thanks :)The other moral to the story is when your leg feels weird, it may be an early warning sign of something a lot more common and less serious: lower back problems. After all the weird symptoms I've had, I have yet to find one...

I have been suffering pain to a greater or lesser degree in my back, and have been using a cane for the last few months due to problems with my right leg. It has been a lot worse lately, and I got an MRI Monday. I have a tear in one disk, another is bulging, and I have degenerative arthritis...

Well this will teach me not to stay away from the board for any length of time. I have no idea.

Anatomical variances are common (we're not mass-produced robots) and can become more pronounced through old injuries, exercise, whatever. Significant differences in size would be interesting if coupled with clinical weakness that progressed. Generally, the things you find because you are...

1. If you have to look for it, it doesn't count.2. If you think a non-dramatic symptom "could be the beginning," it isn't.3. If something doesn't feel right, it probably isn't, but there is an ocean of difference between not quite right and terribly wrong.

Nah, I'm not invested in threads. Just trying to keep on topic. I thought it might be helpful to have a one-stop shop for this specific issue. Thanks for the contribution.I have seen a few people who seem to be about the drama. I sense that the vast majority of people are truly suffering...

"Twitches, shmitches. If that's all you got, then F.U."Yep. In the end just getting tired of it to the point you don't give a flying Frito is the best cure.

Yep, big correlation between symptoms and extra-long hours at the computer for work.

I attribute most of my hand problems to long computer sessions mousing around. Definitely an aggravating factor.

Confirmation bias is the well-established psychological tendency for people to interpret data in accordance with what they already believe. I see this is criminal defense work where sometimes police settle on a particular suspect early and persist in shaping a case against him despite...

Muscle spasms gross enough to cause your whole jaw to move and even result in biting your cheek would seem way too much to represent any sort of neuromuscular deficit. Involuntary movements of the mouth area are caused by lots of things, especially meds people have been on, even in the past...

Did you never go through a high anxiety phase? That's great if you didn't, seriously. A lot of people have, though, and we get new recruits in all the time with the same old fears. There is something very instructive about the process of passing through that anxiety by consciously asserting...

I just say I'm a criminal defense lawyer and have defended more than one doc against the feds criminalizing his pain management decisions for his patients. They dig that.

Yeah, and you're the FNG that salutes me on the battlefield lol ... thanks, Eddie, but now I'm gonna get shot at Everybody has something to contribute at different times. Just seemed like some of the older, wiser folks were gone, so I'll have to do until they decide to come back. Just stay...

I'm a lawyer too. I think it has something to do with the fact that lawyers spend lots of time sitting in front of computer screens, especially since the advent of things like electronic discovery. Now that I am (sadly, in some ways) no longer a practicing trial attorney out and about to...