“the most common symptoms are sudden weakness or numbness on one side of the body or face; loss of balance and coordination; confusion, trouble speaking or understanding new difficulties seeing in one or both eyes sudden severe headache with no known cause drowsiness, confusion, seizures and los...
Ice helps relieve pain and swelling, and can help prevent tissue damage. Use an ice pack, or put ice in a bag. Cover the ice pack or back with a towel before you apply it to your neck. Apply the ice pack or ice for 15 minutes every hour, or as directed. Your provider can tell...
Numbness or drooping on one side of your face Weakness in an arm or leg Confusion or difficulty speaking Dizziness, a severe headache, or vision loss You have a seizure. You have chest pain or shortness of breath.When should I seek immediate care?Your...
including emotional numbness, as adults.(15)Physical abuse also has a role to play as feeling numb is often used as a coping mechanism by people who are physically abused. Emotional numbness helps them avoid having to deal with a scary and...
Paresthesia that is accompanied by weakness may indicate underlying problems of the nervous system. If you notice decreased muscle function along with numbness, you should see your physician. Paresthesia can also occur during astroke. If the sensation comes on suddenly and is accompanied by weakness...
The level of pain relief you experience from an epidural depends on several factors, including the type of drug used, its concentration, and the dosage. Some people may feel a temporary loss of sensation, while others may experience total numbness in the lower part of their body. This process...
(By the way, your dentist isn’t just testing things with this process but is also starting to peel away (loosen and detach) the gum tissue from around your tooth. Your tooth extraction has begun.) FYI: Here are more details about how a dentist tests for numbness before pulling a tooth...
Although it's easy to wave away mental exhaustion in the moment, it can have debilitating long-term effects. Here's how to manage it, according to experts.
the most we might hope for within those walls is numbness -- anesthetic, literally the opposite of aesthetic. I revere hospitals for what they can do; I am alive because of them. But we ask too much of our hospitals. They are places for acute trauma and treatable illness. They are no...
On the other hand, so many people spoke of burnout, of struggling to provide good care in a system more concerned with efficiency and documentation, of seeing numbness and dis-ease in their colleagues and trainees, of finding the weight of the world’s unsolvable problems too heavy to bear,...