Numbness on left side of body

David Sahalie wrote: I trust my chiropractors WAAAAY more than my primary ...

Well then you should get a better primary. Seriously.

Take 10min and read up on the history of chiropractic. Get educated about it before you start talking like you know. When I first hurt my back, I went to chiropractors because I thought they were specialist... because I was ignorant. This was pre-internet. But even just doing research at university libraries I soon learned what a quack school of practice chiropractic is. Now, with the internet able to spoon-feed you as much information as you can absorb, there's no reason to be ignorant about the history and current state of chiropractic. Seriously, read up on it yourself.... who started it, what his expertise was, what his son's expertise was, why they refused to follow the scientific method, why they refused peer review and inspection by the AMA. Hell, just read one single objective page on the stuff and you'll be shocked.

Then if you're still not convinced, google the COUNTLESS research papers using the scientific method that show in hard numbers the negative effects of chiropractic. When it deals with a person's central nervous system, their ability walk, swim, climb, or not have a damn stroke, I sure as hell want treatment based on and refined via the scientific method.

Challenge yourself, have an open mind, and read up on it.

EDIT to add: and in terms of the AMA's relation to chiros, read up on the '76 Wilk's case and the settlements that caused....

+1^^

David Sahalie wrote: Nothing personal, just had some bad experiences.

No worries. Sorry you had a bad experience.

As I'm sure others would agree, seeking medical advice on the internet is not the best avenue, but I can completely empathize with the no-insurance approach and being concerned.

I disagree - depends on the professional/nurse/doctor/chiropractor.

Internet posts help you diagnose yourself, because you are the PERSON WHO CARES THE MOST about your getting well (professionals see you as another number in the procession of sick), you know your symptoms, and the progression thereof, and you keep looking till you find what fits. The web has a synergy of knowledge of many people and opinions and sick people, while a single professional only has his/her knowledge that he or she actually remembers, if the professional has encountered this type of issue before. And the diagnosis is based on a single look without a knowledge of the time progression or background information.

A few years ago I went to Brazil and thought I got bit by a spider there, there was a purple bite mark looking thing on my hip. I expected the bite mark to get better, but it got worse after a few days, so I grew concerned. I went to the school doctor, and she had the gall to say it was an ingrown hair. I have never had an ingrown hair on my hip, the skin there is not thick, I don't have much hair there, and I don't shave my hip. I did not believe this "professional".

As expected, it got even worse, purple, cystic and painful. It had been about 10 days now. I went online, and put in my symptoms, and I believed I had a staph infection, contracted from sleeping in a hostel. Of course, I had to go to a precription writer as I can't just go get the $10 Antibiotics suggested without visiting one of these people. I went to the ER at midnight (less crowded? after working out and eating at Ruby Tuesday with my best friend at the time) and turned out it WAS a Staph Infection, self diagnosed on the internet.

The antibiotics prescribed worked immediately. The next day, the staph stopped growing and actually started shrinking, and the next day it came to a head so I was able to squeeze out the BLUE pus like toothpaste. It remains one of the top 3 most satisfying extractions I have administered.

Had I not gone on the internet I might not have known this, and had I listened to the first professional who offered the opinion it was an ingrown hair I might be bed-ridden now. A friend of mine ignored a staph infection and has a seeping/non healing infection has lost the use of his legs.

Ranchhand wrote:thanks, went to the ER last night gotta go to another doctor. I have parathesia which could be caused by a myriad of things. I have numbness from the top of my head down to my toes on the left side of my body. I dont think its related to the fall.

That is a big area. But a while back, due to an injection into my buttock muscle I had a huge numb spot for a few months, I would run my fingers there and it felt like novacaine, so I was worried too.

It is possible you damaged some line of nerves inyour fall. When you say it "feels like you are waking back up" it may be the nerves regenerating.

Is this an all day feeling? Another possibilitiy is, a sleeping position, are you a left side sleeper? Sometimes I worry about one thing and notice a lot more. It may be a combination of both sleeping pressure and nerve damage.

I was a stomach sleeper for a few years in teens, but then I developed back soreness from sleepiing on my stomach. Otherwise I've been a side sleeper for decades, no problems. A few months ago when I was training harder for a trip I thought I had a pinched tendon in my shoulder, because I couldn't move my arm much in some directions without my shoulder hurting and feeling like a pinched tendon/nerve. I rested for a week thinking it was an overuse injury, but it didn't get better, it got worse. Then I somehow found the culprit was that I had been sleeping on my one arm the entire night.

I hope you get better. Unknown injures are always stressful.

must have been the tingling spidey-sense

Definately see a doctor immediately.. A doctor not a chiropractor. until you rule out something extremely serious. Recently had a mtn biking accident ( slo mo fall over my handle bars).... Had numbness in my right arm and went to the ER thinking a fractured arm, only to found out i fractured my neck at C4, C(5, C6 and C7 along with destroying all the disks between them. If I went to a chiropractor and if they did a manipulation, i would be seriously f-ed up.

You know, some people pay good money to get partially numb. Gift horse meet mouth?