Comparing Neuro Experiences: Thumb Weakness

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In some ways this neuro seemed less thorough than the other one, more questions, fewer tests. I'd guess though from his age he would be more experienced.He did find some weakness in my thumb, which just goes to show, you can't have atrophy without weakness. He did not think the muscle loss was a great deal though comparing the two hands, and he did not find my left leg to be any weaker than the right, nor am I showing any odd reflex signs yet, I told him some other things that I did not mention to the previous neuro, about my visual snow, and that did get him puzzled. I also said he would not be the first one to be puzzled by it, which was why I don't usually mention it. He spent a lot of time trying to get me to read normal print with my right eye, well I can't but it was if he was doubting this. Anyway he ordered the usual blood tests, and a brain scan because he said he was curious. He looked at my tongue and said he would not call what it was doing twitching and noticed the back of my throat was pulsating. He asked me if I could feel that, and I said no, and he asked me if I could make it happen, and I demonstrated that I could. He seemed to find that unusual. He found my voice unusual too, and asked if I always spoke emphatically the way I do, and I said yes I do. (I don't think he is used to Asperger's voice cadence) Anyway the upshot is he told me not to come back unless anything gets any worse as (like the other neuro) he does not know what it is, but he does not think it is nasty.Well I am curious to have my brain scanned too, I wonder what will show up, I think he expects to find a snowstorm back there, and a little man tugging on my tongue

 

[Gelianna]

Well, I didn't much care for the way you said, "nor am I showing any odd reflex signs yet," but I guess you can be forgiven a bit of pessimism after what you've been through with the medical establishment.I wish he had just exclaimed, "Eureka! You've got...here take this three times a day." But I suppose the unconcern was a good sign. Didn't you say your thumb issue was due to Carpal Tunnel?Anyway, I'm officially changing my wish for you. I was wishing they would just come up with some benign explanation. Now I've decided I will wish that you live every day, not as though it were your last, but regardless. We've all spent far too much time on this stuff.Wherever dance your dreams, wherever rests your hope, go there. Dreams and hopes may fade if we let them, but as long as there is life to live and love to give, even the most unlikely of embers may be rekindled into roaring fires.Paul

 

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Ok I suppose that was the wrong thing to say, but that's the way it goes sometimes, you just think it is a waiting game before something does show up like that. It was a cold miserable day to be going to the hospital anyway and it started snowing whilst I was waiting for the bus home.