Proprioception- Your Experience?

[Karen99]

Hi.  I'd like to ask forum members about their experiences, past or present with proprioception.

I experienced this for a couple of days during my first MS attack.  I did not know where my arm was unless I looked at it.

That experience reminded that I had this type of body disorientation during my childhood.  I can remember being sick in bed at night (approx. 10 years-old) and not knowing how big I was in relation to the room.  Also, I remember trying to look at something in the room so I could determine if I was as big as the room, the size of the lamp, or the door. Sometimes I felt that I was as big as the room, or smaller than the pillow.  I didn't know.  I don't recall looking at myself to aid in knowing how I related to the room.  It was weird because I wasn't sure is I WASN'T part of the room.  I would imagine this is how an infant might perceive the world.    

Later in life, I thought I must have had a fever and was having some type of hallucination.  Maybe so, but I know this went on for a couple of nights.  Now I wonder if this was some sort of virus I had that is suspected in the development of MS.

Any experience like this, anyone?  It is a weird question.  

[PastorDan]

Hope your back's better soon.

[Udkas]

Hi,
I have experienced proprioperception (didn't know that was what it was called).  Often I can't work out where my legs are situated, I tend to only notice this at night when I am laying in bed and it's not all the time. It is a horrible feeling. If I walk at night I get all wobbly and unbalanced.  

When I was in hospital having my IV steriods they used to bend my toes every day and ask me which toe they were holding and which way they were bending them and I could never tell them.  My new neuro has never done this test.

I failed the figure nose test at the neuro's office but I never really understood why they do that test or even if it's related to anything at all. All i know is i can't hit his finger, I over shoot all the time. Poor hand eye co-ordination I am guessing?

Cheers,
Udkas . b.t.w. I am home from work today, hurt my back... that's why I am post happy as I am bored.

[b125]

Don't know if it's related or not, but I've noticed I'm running into things a lot more, especially doorways or anything creating a "frame" that I have to walk through. I was blaming my having to wear my glasses rather than contacts, but that didn't really make much logical sense to me. If something happened at work that seemed urgent, I would literally run to get to whatever it was. Over the past month, I moved to shuffle rapidly.... I don't trust my feet to move away from me that much, that quickly.

[PastorDan]

I can usually feel where I am, but often still can't seem to do anything with that information.  I've taken to keeping my feet apart, and being careful to form a triangle on the ground with my feet and the cane as the three corners.  The more equilateral the triangle, the less likely I am to tumble.  This morning while walking Bandit, I forgot and just held the cane in my hand for a couple of minutes.  When the little rascal quit pulling on his leash, I started to fall backwards.  I'm getting pretty quick at slamming that cane tip down on the ground somewhere in the general direction of the point toward which I am falling.

[jensequitur]

I think that as our brain grows, we have changes in our proprioperception.  I know that as a child, I would lose the sense of where my arm was in space, and I could lie in bed and 'put' myself in the middle of the room.

These days, it's definitely not under my control.  My legs could be up in the air or under my chair, and I wouldn't know.  

[rendean]

My experiences are more Terry's. Most of it occurs on my left side....knock things over, mop it up and knock that off too. Can't always tell where my left foot is or if I have a shoe on it much less which shoe.:-)
Misjudge steps and run into walls..the usual drunken appearance.

ren

[saveone]

I have experienced everythign from feeling as though my body is not there below the waist to I can't tell where my feet are if I can't see them.  I knock things over constantly.  Sometimes I feel like a two year old I am having to mop up after.  If I get spices from the cabinet I knock several out.

One day I was at the doctors office sitting in the waiting room.  Suddenly I felt like I had my work shoes on.  They feel different on my feet than my good tennis shoes.  Sh** I thought.  But when I looked down there was my tennis shoes. :0)

I run into stuff because I miss judge where I am at in relationship to where I am going.  

I march when I walk because I don't know where my feet are.

The list goes on but you get the drift.  It is a pain in the rear.

terry