missing limbs

[nat0107]

when you have a missing limb do you still feel as if it is there? for example if you have an itch do you go to scratch it but find youself without an arm?

[kwicky]

I have heard this is possible but not if you were born with the missing limb. Something to do with spatial awareness which we learn soon after birth.

[crete]

its well documented that amputees have a sensation following limb removal.

[cyanide]

My friends dad lost his leg in an accident over 20 years ago and he says that it itches,aches and once i sat on the bed to chat to him and he was shouting at me to get off his leg.He`s now on tablets that stop these sensations.

[hopalong]

I had my full right leg amputated 28 years ago and I still get phantom pains and itches. Sometimes these pains can get really bad and there is nothing really you can do to stop them

[cyanide]

Ah-ha your`e the person in the know then,so my mates dads tablets don`t really work then?He`s been saying they don`t for the past 5 years but his wife`s having none of it!LOL.