Changing what Hand you Write With...

[erin-x]

When I was about 16 I started having difficulty with my handwriting. My hand started shaking and I just couldn't hold a pen anymore. Anyway.. after a lot of frustration (it was exam time and ended up with a scribe) I decided to try writing with my left hand. Straight away it seemed so natural and easy to me!

Up until this point I had always been right handed, showing no signs of ambidextrousness (sp?).

I still have the shaking and the weakness in my right hand but the doctors have never actually looked into it, they always say it is down to my hyper-mobility.

Has anyone else experienced this or seen anything like it before?

[starone]

No, I haven't, it is very odd, but when I broke my wrist (right hand) I learned to write with my left hand and soon developed proficiency. Needs must when the devil drives.

[erin-x]

I think it's really odd as well. I've never been satisfied with the hyper-mobility diagnosis but they wont look into it further :|

[sherrardk]

Some of my children have hyper-mobility and I was told it makes them more bendy and stretchy, I would have thought that that would have made it more difficult to write write with the wrong hand.

[erin-x]

See that is one of the reasons I don't think that is what caused it, Sher. Also that hyper-mobility doesn't cause shaking or loss of strength.

[sherrardk]

I suppose if the problem is sorted (ie - you write with a different hand now) they think that it is sorted. If you still have worries about your hand now, go back to your GP and see if they will investigate further.

[RATTER15]

I broke my right hand a few years ago, I really couldn't do a thing with a pen in my left hand, I even had to draw money out of my own bank by signing my cheques with a X witnessed by bank staff that knew me well.

I would cut off my right hand to be ambidextrous.

[ummmm]

My ex is ambidextrous. He can do everything with both hands equally. Pool, darts, tennis...work (he's a chippy) but for some reason he can't write with his right hand.

[annadomino]

erin-x
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See that is one of the reasons I don't think that is what caused it, Sher. Also that hyper-mobility doesn't cause shaking or loss of strength.

It surely can in later life.

[ummmm]

Lol Ratter....

My grandad is also ambidextrous but he was beaten into using his right hand....sign of the devil and all that !!!

[erin-x]

Lol :)

I should go back and try again... they will just say the same though probably. I'm sure it can in later life Anna but i'm only 21.. surely it can't be causing problems like that so soon :|

[horseshoes]

I'm aquadextrous. I can turn the bath taps on and off with both feet!

[RATTER15]

>>I'm aquadextrous. I can turn the bath taps on and off with both feet!<<

Try it with horse shoes on :)

[horseshoes]

LOL Ratter

[micmak]

Same here ummmm. It was the nuns that did it. Cruel bar stewards that they were. I am speaking for Mrs MM not me. she is the catholic in our house.

[HowardKennitby]

I have never heard of the situation you describe. I have tried writing left-handed and it was a disaster. I can do quite a few things left-handed such as use computer mouse, most hand tools and other stuff. I do practise left-handed working when I can - you never know when it might prove useful.

[rowanwitch]

can do most things with both hands can't write right handed if I think about it but if I am holding a phone in my left hand and need to write notes I seem to manage fine just seems my left hand doesn't need to know what my right hand is doing.... can even hold a fine paintbrush ok in my right which should take the same or greater control...

[LoftyLottie]

I am hypermobile (very hypermobile apparently). Obviously this affects my joints and they can be very weak. However, I have never known an shaking. At times I can't write properly because I can't apply any pressure and all I get is faint spider writing - I suppose it could be down to my hypermobility but always put it down to my osteoarthitis (which hypermobile people are very likely to suffer from)

I think your problem ought to be looked into Erin.

Lottie.