Alien Hand Syndrome

[Dogman]

What if you had to deal with this, Alien Hand Syndrome.

Read some of the case studies towards the bottom of the page.


Damn Interesting • Alien Hand Syndrome

 

[shooter521]

That is WAY jacked up.

 

[Fletch]

My sister-in-law had either a very mild form of this or a precursor to it. The hand would not move on its own, but she would often be struck with the notion that the entire arm did not actually belong to her -- that it was someone else's arm attached to her body.

She was about 8 months pregnant with her first child when she started having seizures, which led to the discovery of a benign, extremely slow growing brain tumor that doctors said she'd probably had all of her life (she was around 35 at the time). The tumor was removed, and apparently it's relieved the "alien" symptoms. So now it's just a cool story.

 

[Scutter01]

So now it's just a cool story.

That's just what they WANT you to believe.

 

[level.eleven]

So is that considered a permanent "stranger"? I work in a hospital and I was an EMT long before that and I have neither heard of or witnessed any alien hand..... Whats with the rash of created diseases anyway? RLS, Alien hand to name a few.....

RLS and AHS have been studied and diagnosed by doctors for a hundred years, they aren't really new conditions.

+1 on the stranger joke.

 

[CombatVet]

They did a story about this on Natgeo on the show Taboo. This Aussie amputated his own leg at home.

 

[rambone]

LOL!! You guys need to familiarize yourself with "The Stranger."

Urban Dictionary: the stranger

 

[360]

I guess I have been cheating on myself this whole time.

Sorry, self.

 

[Fishersjohn48]

Ripping and removing clothes.....Hand groping uncontrollably......Oops this is INGO...Not cyber sexing......Sorry, carry on.

 

[HandK]

I think I have Alien butt Syndrome !!!