Seems To Be A "Left-Side" Common Denominator?

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I noticed the withdrawals within myself as also with many of the posts on here, there seems to be an overwhelming amount of "Left-side" complaints. Even though pains can be throughout the body, many seem to be geared toward the left side such as mine are.

 

My left-side symptoms that are mostly on and off are jaw and cheek numbness, with left-side teeth upper and lower hurting, neck and shoulder stiffness, searing numbing pain and itchiness between the left shoulder blade and spine, left hand arm tingling, left eye is extra sensitive with squinting, left and center chest wall burning and tinges of pain, in spite of 3 EKG tests that are all okay.

 

Does anyone know what gives with the "left side" thing being dominate with theses withdrawals, does the sympathetic trunk and ganglia mostly travel the left-side of the spine and body?

 

http://www.scholarpedia.org/w/images/d/d3/Autonomic_nervous_system_main_figure_Blessing.gif

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Hi On The Mend:

 

I also have the left chest burning sensation.  Some days are really bad but there are other days that it does go away.  I am two months off a cold turkey of ativan.  I am assuming this is part of withdrawal since it seems to come and go and I have never had this before.  Has your chest burning subsided?  Thank you. 

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Hi On The Mend:

 

I also have the left chest burning sensation.  Some days are really bad but there are other days that it does go away.  I am two months off a cold turkey of ativan.  I am assuming this is part of withdrawal since it seems to come and go and I have never had this before.  Has your chest burning subsided?  Thank you.

 

Hi rmcd,

 

Yes, my chest burning has diminished by about 80% or better. It was extremely bothersome, but more worrisome than anything else. It seems to be caused by adrenaline with a reaction excessive calcium around the heart (makes the muscles feel tight) and my be caused by additional acid or acid re-flux. It's hard to say.

 

I hope yours subsides too for you!

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After the first week all my physical symptoms were only on the left side. I felt like if I could just cut myself in half my right side would be almost perfectly normal (except for the mental stuff). I ggogled it and found out that left sided only symptoms happen quite frequently with benzo withdrawal. What was really weird as the weeks went by the physical stuff went to just my left leg then only my left thigh and eventually completely gone. I have read where benzos get stored in body fat so I guess that the fat in my leg had stored the most. Who knows but that is what happened.

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I noticed the withdrawals within myself as also with many of the posts on here, there seems to be an overwhelming amount of "Left-side" complaints. Even though pains can be throughout the body, many seem to be geared toward the left side such as mine are.

 

My left-side symptoms that are mostly on and off are jaw and cheek numbness, with left-side teeth upper and lower hurting, neck and shoulder stiffness, searing numbing pain and itchiness between the left shoulder blade and spine, left hand arm tingling, left eye is extra sensitive with squinting, left and center chest wall burning and tinges of pain, in spite of 3 EKG tests that are all okay.

 

Does anyone know what gives with the "left side" thing being dominate with theses withdrawals, does the sympathetic trunk and ganglia mostly travel the left-side of the spine and body?

 

http://www.scholarpedia.org/w/images/d/d3/Autonomic_nervous_system_main_figure_Blessing.gif

 

I sure would like to know more. 

I have very many of the same symptom as you. Not so much in the limbs but here is my list.

Burning/sensitive left side of neck, up into face ear and left eye. Intermittent pain in left ear.

Left eye tissue is always inflamed.  Opthamologist can't figure out why.

Burning down through chest and stomach both sides (this caused a loss of 35 lbs. Before I tapered

off.) This is now not as bad and sometimes it goes away. I can eat most days

now. I have had my thyroid checked and rechecked.

Anyways add me to  the list of leftsiders. Thanks for the diagram. I can't print it from here but I will look at it later.

Marching on

Carol

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I have a left sided lower eyelid twitch that comes on with heavy thighs but mostly my left leg, weird and interesting at the same time that the left would be affected more in withdrawal.

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somebody told me about your posts as i just posted the scary symptoms i was having all on my left side.

last night i was experiencing my brain was beating down on itself and lingering on the left side causing my left eye to have bubbles on the eyeball and my left breast was producing some kind of liquid and getting my nightgown all wet.

my left eye looked significantly different than the right and so did my left breast.

i wrote on the cold turkey and rapid w/d that these symptoms were scary to me but i see that some of you have left side symptoms too.

i have 62 days today off all benzo's and soma.

i am tapering still from suboxone; cannot wait to be off it.

prettydaisys

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I have all the s/x that have been mentioned...chest pain, rib pain, jaw pain, etc...but for me it's 100% right-sided.  The only thing that travels to the left is a shingle-like pain/tingling and some GI discomfort.

 

 

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This is fascinating.  If you drew a vertical line bisecting my body left to right my whole left side is 50% more sensitive than my right side.  In me this is nothing new, though.  I'm left handed, and my left side has always been dominant.  But I hadn't noticed till now that my symptoms (bloodshot left eye, left shoulder and neck pain, body pains, left ear stuffed up, and so on, are mostly on my left side.

 

Megan

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Most people do have left sided symptoms, if their symptoms are sided. Mine, however, were always right-sided. I thank God every day that the nerve pain is finally gone.