#nerve damage

[tbartist]

“All eyes on me”

This art is my visualization of my own anxiety symptoms

[octobercowboy]

it’s me and this nerve pain against the world

[chronicallyjude]

Really wish doctors cared about undiagnosed chronic health issues, they might be tired of trying to figure out what's wrong with me but imagine how sick of this I am.

[tumble-tv]

Me: Can you grab my water bottle? my legs ain't working, dude

Sister: Did you try turning them off and on again

[whump-galaxy]

The shy, fearful whumpee having enough of the Whumper and biting them. Not just a fearful nip either, they grab on and won’t let go. They give the whumper nerve damage, yet they won’t stop. They have to be pulled off the whumper like some kind of rabid animal.

And there’s no telling what the whumper does with animals that don’t behave.

[labradorduck]

Ah I've been meaning to make a post about this for a while but those of us with uneven eyes like strabismus and my nerve damage, the manga and anime that's currently popular, Dungeon Meshi, has a character with uneven eyes!

His uneven eyes aren't a visual short hand for being dumb or the usual nonsense we see when we see portrayals of characters with uneven eyes. He's very talented and good at what he does!

Anyway I'm very excited about this lad. Representation matters and I feel a little better about my uneven face.

[youngchronicpain]

Make sure you are periodically checking areas that you have nerve damage/little feeling in. A sore or an infection can get dangerous pretty quickly if it is already severe once you notice it. Catching it early is key!

[where-is-my-whump]

Chicago PD 3x21/22

[surrealist-dreamer]

When autocorrect finds me and suddenly I have chronic piano:

[wheresernie]

Big family meals and food holidays are hard for me because of my tremors and dyspraxia.

So shout out to people with tremors, motor disorders and coordination disorders, muscle weakness and nerve damage in hands and face, people with dysphagia.

We deserve a good holiday too, even if we're not talked about often

[soggedboytroutanti]

Paul HC!!

He has nerve damage in his feet and thats why he works a desk job bc he cant stand too long

wdym im projecting /lh

[hell-is-a-teenage-girll]

Having trigeminal neuralgia which is called the suicide disease being almost the most painful pain to humans, and having anesthesia dolorosa on top and it being WORSE than that.

Says enough about how painful and how heavy it is unfortunately..

Sometimes I don't even realize it myself.

[aguineapigcouldntdothis]

if you have any kind of sensory nerve damage here's a reminder to check those areas for injuries.

It can be super easy to miss an infected cut, ingrown nail, etc. when you can't feel it/can barely feel it

Even if you still have partial feeling please check! idk abt anyone else but sometimes i forget how little feeling i truly have in my legs bc im just so used to it.

If you are not able to check on your own bc of a disability, inability to see the area (such as nerve damage on your back) then ask a friend, lover, caregiver, etc. to do it. or use a mirror.

Also if you just got a tattoo or piercing in that area then please check it daily for signs of infection. which everyone should be doing anyway but do it even more if you have sensory nerve damage.

Hopefully any injuries you see will be minor cuts and bruises (or none at all) but still very important to check!

[starliight-whump]

Stitches

Augustofwhump day 22: stitches / robbery / insects

James is forced to stitch the cuts on his own again, but the extent of the damage yo his hands is starting to become apparent.

contains: aftermath of torture, stitching of wounds, nerve damage.

“Come on, James. You really should do it. You're better at this than me, it’s part of your job, after all.” Harrison smirked and leaned back in his chair as he watched him.

This was very different from his job, much more difficult than his job but James didn't argue, instead he looked down at the needle. All the pain, especially the stinging pain from the fresh cuts made it incredibly hard to focus, James really wanted to just pass out so he didn't have to feel all of it. With a shaky breath James tried to pick up the needle but his hands trembled so badly that it was really difficult, and the partial numbness in his fingers didn't help. James let out a frustrated groan and tried again. Eventually he managed to get the needle up but that was just the first part, no matter how hard he tried to keep his hands steady they just wouldn't stop shaking. Even though he had noticed it before James hadn't realized just how serious it was and that caused a sinking feeling to settle heavily in his chest.

“I- I can't do it.” James stammered with tears in his eyes, afraid that it would make Harrison angry. His captor often didn't take kindly to not doing as he was told.

Harrison rolled his eyes. “Just calm down, take a few deep breaths and try to get your hands to stop shaking.

James shook his head. If only it was that easy… It wouldn't have been the first time his hands were shaking from fear, but that wasn't what this was; James knew that. The numbness and that prickling in his fingers that wouldn't go away proved as much. It wasn't something he wanted to tell Harrison, but lying would be worse. “It's not that, I-... Something’s wrong.”

Realization seemed to flicker in Harrison’s eyes and a smirk settled in his lips. “Oh, is it? Well, I guess I’ll have to do it, and then we’ll examine this further.” James hated how pleased Harrison sounded and all he could do was to look away and try not to scream at the pain as Harrison dug the needle into his skin and stitched the cut together.

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[tumble-tv]

Probably the most devastating thing about my hand mobility decreasing at an exponential rate over the past year isn't that I can't draw. It's not that I can hardly write. It's not that I can't wash my hair without aid. It's not that I can't paint my own nails. It's not that I'm struggling with hand sewing.

It's that my dream of playing the bass can never and will never come true.

I'll never be able to be part of a band and be the sexy bass player, I'll never be the guy to have a bass on my wall that's covered in stickers and we'll loved, I'll never be able to collect my picks and have a little collection. If I'm every part of a band, I'll be the singer, and my jaw can't do that shit anymore.

[theconfusingfrog]

Hey does anyone else have some kind of similar experience to make me not feel weak and crazy?

I used to be on a robotics team. It was not a good experience and I was horribly overworked— to the point that at one point I had a breakdown at midnight because my hands were tingling all wrong and prickly in the numb way (I know that’s horrible phrasing, it’s the best I can do). I quit robotics and the problems didn’t go away, but got significantly better. Sure, sometimes I dropped heavy things and my hands hurt a bit if I typed or wrote too much— but it was fine. Probably just carpel tunnel.

Then I made the mistake of joining color guard— you know, the people who throw and spin flags? The veterans who had been doing it for years joked about having nerve damage but I thought I would be fine, it was only for one season after all. I quit before our first competition, but the damage was done I guess.

There was good days where I felt fine, but there was also days when I struggled to open door handles, pick up water glasses, use a keyboard, or do any task needing grip strength.

Since then I’m pretty much constantly wearing compression gloves and a wrist brace (my right hand is far worse than my left). Sometimes I think to myself that I don’t need them, that surely I’m fine, so I go off to do something without them… then ten minutes later I have to do the walk of shame back because everyday activities are starting to hurt. I could push through, that’s what I tried at first— but not nipping the pain in the bud just makes it escalate over time and I’ve learned that if I don’t cope with it early I’ll regret it. If I try to push through then I’ll just end up unable to do anything for a period of time because I overdid it.

No one in my family believes me because these problems are “so sudden.” It’s not just my wrists either, it’s my whole hands. The back of the hand and the finger joints are the worst, though without the brace my wrist easily takes that title. It’s not carpel tunnel, the X-Rays came back clean, and I thought it might be nerve damage but like… I can still feel things. It’s not just numb. It gets worse with exertion but the compression gloves help a TON.

My family keeps telling me that I don’t need the gloves and brace, that I’d be fine if I just stopped gaming and drawing. I’d rather wear these aids and be able to function mostly normally and still enjoy my hobbies than not wear them to “be normal” and be forced to drop everything I like and STILL be in pain.

Seriously does anyone have a similar experience? Does anyone have any idea what could be going on?

(WITH THE TAGS IM JUST TRYING TO REACH PEOPLE WHO ARE INFORMED ON THIS SUBJECT. IM NOT CLAIMING ANY TO HAVE ANY CONDITION. PLZ DONT COME AFTER ME 😅)