doing things with the wrong hand

am lucky I guess I can do most thing with both hands but cant write real good with left but can write where ya can read it . I run the puter mouse left handed feels funny using right handed I hoe left ride horses left. shot left other things right handed

....Hi there doormouse, Hope you are doing well. It is extremely hard doing things with the hand that you don't normally use. But what you are doing as you use your non-dominate hand, according to reports, is building brain cells. Yes, as you continue to do this, your brain is being activated in the areas thhat are not used, because we are creatures of habit. So the more you use your left hand, the more new cells you will be producing they say, so keep it up. One more thing, to improve your memory, before you get out of bed in the morning, hang your head over the side of the bed without falling out "o), for as long as you can. The blood goes to your brain cells and stimulates them and your memory should start to improve. When you get the use of your right hand back, you'll be a brain-e-ack "o). Take care, hope your arm feels better soon.

I had my right arm in a sling for weeks after having shoulder surgery and EVERY thing was harder, I got a ball on my steering wheel so I could drive one handed, and I liked it so much I still have it on it - the surgery was in 05

hi doormouse no not really as I am ambidexterous but since three years ago I had a fractured left shoulder so had to have a shoulder joint replacement, and now I cannot lift my arm up very far at all. So I can not even use my left hand to comb hair or brush it, and I so miss that as I did use my left hand for every thing but writing I type with both hands, and that at least keeps my left hand supple but wish I could get back full movement of my left arm. before the fall I was always using my left hand all the time.I used to drink coffee with my left hand,now I can only help hold the cup with my left hand. sob sob.

Yes this is hard to do. I have never injured my right hand and had to use my left for toilet duties, that would be hard! My wife tried using her opposite hand when our kids were learning to see what it was like to learn to wipe yourself and she said it was very difficult. When I travelled to the USA and lived there I had to drive on the opposite side of the car which meant changing gears with my right hand instead of my left. That was really awkward. Also I was a smoker then and had trouble flicking the ash out of the car with my left hand while driving without making a big mess inside the car!

Really is a bad news and and good news that you have experience in both hands.I pray god that you may be get well soon.

Being a left hander brought up in a world made for right handed people, and going to school before there were left handed scissors etc., I had no choice but to use my 'wrong' hand. I now do most things right or left handed, except writing which I can't do right handed.

I never have had to, but I can imagine. I know a couple of friends of mine, that have had surgery on their right hand and said it was really awful. I hope you are doing better.

Yeah I was doing that for a while, kept forgetting until I got used to it. How did the cortisone help?

Not really. We tend to adapt to the circumsstances and make the best out of it. I have lost about half the dexterity of my right hand. I know what needs to be done, but it seems that the connection to the right hand and fingers seems to be very bad. Many times my right hand simply did not move. I am now forced to use the left hand to use the mouse. The keys normally assigned to the right hand tend to be pressed by the left hand fingers. As for driving there were near misses when my right hand refused to turn the steering wheel when the left hand was on the gear stick. Currently I am trying to alleviate the situation, but I think it is going to take a long time.

Sorry to hear about what happened to you. You are right from it it is so hard to do things which you are not used to in your life. Just take care always in doing the wrong hand I know after a long time you will be healed. Just sacrifice a little and take all the medicine for that so that you will get easily well. Try to adapt it because it is need for a moment after that trials you can overcome and back to normal right hand use. Since that is the situation learned how to use it then afterwards you learn both how to use it.

I'm part way ambidextrous, so sometimes using my left hand isn't so weird (I'm naturally right handed). Sometimes it's really awkward. For example, I can write with my left hand decent enough, but it's painstakingly slow and it feels weird since I'm not used writing with it. If I practiced a little I wouldn't have any trouble at all, but I've never found the need! Some things I just naturally do with my left hand. For some reason I golf left-handed. I never figured that one out, but that's just how I was most comfortable with, so that's how I learned! I bat right-handed for strength, but when I bat left-handed I'm more accurate with hitting the ball into gaps between people and such (but batting right-handed is more preferred for me). So I do know how you feel! It's sometimes really strange, especially when you're forced to make that change unnaturally!

My what happened to your right elbow. Hope that is not serious. Are you injured from accident. I'm also bad at left hand. But if the case needs too, then I have no choice but to use my left hand. Right now I got a sprained finger, due to carry heavy things, on my right hand. But I can still use my right hand but I cant really type well.

I think that is normal because you are not accustomed to use your left hand. It was difficult at first, but if it's frequent and trained, you'll get to using your left hand.I hope you will get better soon and don't just complain about a bad think that happen to you. By complaining you will fell it difficult and more difficult again. Just do the best think that you can do, be grateful and you will feel better.

That's so funny! But of course I hope you get well soon. I've never had an incident which deprived me the use of my right hand temporarily, but I can imagine what you feel. Sometimes I try writing with my left hand, and boy, is my penmanship crappy! And using the mouse with my left hand is just perfectly hard. Maybe you can think of this as an opportunity to learn how to be ambidextrous. Good luck and get well!

Oh my goodness I am hopeless with my left hand!! I do hope your arm is better soon, I can imagine how difficult life must be for you right now!!