I've got this question for anyone learned with the subject, it's a cognitive science / physiology type question..

So this one night about four months ago I got really really drunk after being awake for 48 hours and pretty much collapsed when I got home. When I woke up had this weird feeling like there was a split of emptiness in the left side of my head. I was also having a difficult time walking and that day particularly I first felt a strong dislike for the sensation of stepping on my right foot. I had a hard time walking straight somehow the next day, walking seemed to take a lot of mental effort.

since then I've noticed that I get some facial assymetry going on randomly, it seems to go away the more alcohol or Strattera I have in me but somehow Dexedrine does not seem to help. Its like a difference in facial expression -- it gets this weird subtle grin, a fish-dead look in the eye and somehow looking at it makes me feel like I'm lugging around a dead siamese twin on my right side, it's hard to explain. From older photographs of myself I find the assymetry is not necesssarily anything new but certainly its extent being that it gives me an impression of braindeadedness is!

And I've got symptoms that seem to go along with it. When it's happening I also find I've got this weird feeling in my right foot, like the feeling of it just feels weird or...not numb but something similar. Also I'm somehow reluctant to do things with my right hand, I dislike the .. mental sensation, somehow. For example doing things on the computer and controlling the mouse with the right hand, somehow it ****es me off...again very hard to explain.

SO. Obviously I've painted a picture of something funny happening to the left brain. My question is does anyone know stuff about neuroscience and if yes what can you tell me based on my recountances.

Obviously I've painted a picture of something funny happening to the left brain. My question is does anyone know stuff about neuroscience and if yes what can you tell me based on my recountances.
I would not call it funny per se, but I know whatcha mean.

I would suggest talking to your Dr about your symptoms. I say that because this could be an early sign of something that you may be able to take preventative measures for, which may prevent it occuring again, or maybe prevent it from progressing any further. Talking to a Dr sooner than later might allow you the knowledge to take any preventative measures if it turns out to be something that is preventable.

Your Dr will either be able to come to some kind of a conclusion based on what you tell him/her, or your Dr will know a specialist who likely will. It's very important to get some expert advice concerning this. It's possible that it could turn out to be nothing to worry about, or it could turn out that maybe you had a mild stroke, or maybe something more serious. I don't think that me guessing about what it might or might not be, will actually be of much help.

I do not want to scare you, but I really feel strongly that telling your Dr, or any Dr about those sypmtoms is the best thing to do. I hope that when you do find out what it is that you will keep us posted.

Sounds Like A Tia To Me See Your Doctor And Ask Them To Do A Brain Scaeen Thins Confume This If You Have Had One Or It Could Be That Youve Hurt Your Brain Faling Dwon Damgeing Nuvces In Your Brain That Healing An Caseing This Diff,,, Id Ask Doc Though An See What They Think Sooner The Better I Have Had Seaissy Haed Injuys So I Do Know What Iam Talking About
Anyways I Hope Things Get Better Soon An Hope All Is Well Now!

Thanks For Posting

Again See The Doctor There Will Help

Dorm

The above poster is correct: Your best advice is always from your Doctor. In fact, I'd highly suggest you talk to one ASAP.

If it were me, I would not be posting here: I'd be finding a Doctor ~*STAT*~ and asking for some tests. I think all of us here would say they cannot emphasize this enough. If you are taking meds, these are pressor drugs (increase BP), which inherently raise the risk of cardiovascular events.

I think it is unwise to rely on a bunch of amateurs posting on the Internet for your health advice, especially about a subject that sounds so critical. <!!!>

'Nuff said.

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One poster mentioned TIAs. (Speaking hypothetically about TIAs/strokes, BTW, since we cannot know your condition and it is not our role.)

With a TIA (transient ischemic attack), the motor and/or sensory symptoms are supposed to be "transient" (aka 'temporary'), and they fully resolve, usually within a few minutes, and possibly up to 48 hours, IIRC.

http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4781



This sort of thing (sensory/visual alterations; mental effects; motor effects) happened to my Mom when she had an unknown brain aneurysm burst. (A somewhat different type of stroke than a TIA.) You should likely see a Doctor, as brain bleeds/strokes (if this is what it is - disclaimer) tend to recur.

With stroke ischemia, one only has 60 minutes ('the golden hour') to get the clotbuster (TPA, etc) drugs by vein, or 3 hours to get them by artery (more complicated), before there is tissue necrosis.

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Strokes can also be caused by other things, such arrhythmias, especially the ones where the heart quivers 200+ times/minute. (e.g. It cannot do a full "pump"/ejection of the preload/stroke volume that SHOULD be in the chamber.) (Both Atrial Fib and Ventricular Fib and their tachycardias can do this, IIRC.)

This is b/c there are little swirls of still blood being formed, but the blood is not travelling _out of the heart_, which makes it more likely to clot, hence people stroke out (clot in brain), or arrest (clot in heart), or get a pulmonary issue happening (clot in lung).

You should see your doctor. This may be the result of something that might of happened when you got drunk or after you went to sleep...

I went for a CAT scan after you people scared the Christ out of me. Anyways finally the verdict is in, nothing wrong with me! So that means that the

*facial weakness -- actaully just a funny looking result of being on the wrong drugs
*Foot problem -- caused by repeatedly pinching a nerve in the neck
*Hand problem -- just a strained wrist from too much mouse use
*collapsing after drinking -- thats what happens when you drink way the **** too much and don't sleep for 36 hours

Gad, I went through your post, and am very happy you got your results in and you are OK. The first place my mind went (no pun intended) was maybe a stroke with the left brain/right sided symptom stuff. Be careful, okay??