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Message started by thebbz on Aug 14th, 2008 at 1:17pm

Title: dominant sides?
Post by thebbz on Aug 14th, 2008 at 1:17pm
Are lefty's getting hit on the left side? Are righty's getting hit on the right side? Meaning are you left handed and does that correlate with your CH side. Same for the right. just curious :-?
all the best
thebb

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by Bob_Johnson on Aug 14th, 2008 at 1:37pm
Side of pain appears to be  random assignment by the gods! No clinical importance except if you shift from one-sided to both sides it MAY signal a move to chronic CH.

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by thebbz on Aug 14th, 2008 at 1:47pm
I am left handed as well as left headed. I now wonder if that correlates with the side of the hypothalamus that has abnormal grey matter growth? I am sure we all have these wonderful questions bouncing around. At least I hope so. :D
thebb :)

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by Chad on Aug 14th, 2008 at 2:18pm
I'm opposites.  Right headed, left hand.

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by ReeseC on Aug 14th, 2008 at 2:21pm
Right handed and right headed here.

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by Kimmie on Aug 14th, 2008 at 2:44pm
Right handed...left headed

That sounds weird. Maybe if I hold my right hand on my left side of the head the clusters will stop?!?!?!  [smiley=pokeeye.gif]

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by BrianJ on Aug 14th, 2008 at 2:47pm
i am right in everything i do and say that includes my CH and handed :) :P now give me some COOKIES!!!!

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by midwestbeth on Aug 14th, 2008 at 6:35pm
Right handed, left headed.  One more thing, my left eye is very dominant.  Has anyone noticed if they get hit on the same side as their dominant eye?  Some things that require focus, like shooting a gun, I will do with my left hand.

Beth

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by Karl on Aug 14th, 2008 at 8:40pm
left handed and left hits and right eye dominant.

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by jon019 on Aug 14th, 2008 at 10:54pm
OK, I'll play...Right handed, right sided (exclusively thank you Lord)..tho I am left eyed, bat left, deal cards left.. Nothing here methinks...

Jon


Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by George_J on Aug 15th, 2008 at 12:13am
Right-handed and left-headed.  Right-eye dominant.  Have never gotten hit on the right--ever.

Best,

George

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by michael on Aug 15th, 2008 at 6:14am
Predominantly right hits. Right handed, Right eye dominant

Mike

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by sandie99 on Aug 15th, 2008 at 7:02am
Right-handed, left-headed, left eye dominant.

Sanna

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by Jean on Aug 15th, 2008 at 9:15am
Right handed, right headed, left eye dominant. Weird though, my left eye twitches while in cycle.  Never pain on the left though.

Jeannie

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by Pixie-elf on Aug 15th, 2008 at 9:47am
Right handed, Left side is where I get my hits.

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by DennisM1045 on Aug 15th, 2008 at 10:21am
Right sider, right handed.  Never hit on the left (yet  :-/)

-Dennis-

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by Balanchine on Aug 15th, 2008 at 11:21am
Right and right. No idea which of my eyes is dominant, if either is.

Interestingly, after many CH years and then a 4 year break, in my recent 2 1/2 month cycle it was of course right side per usual. Until one weekend when everything shifted to the left. Just for a couple of days. This I found ominous, especially in light of Bob's comment about side-shifting possibly presaging a chronic condition. Here's to the 'MAY'....

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by washed-out on Aug 15th, 2008 at 2:53pm
right-handed, left-headed, right eye dominant

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by Garys_Girl on Aug 15th, 2008 at 3:07pm
Gary is ambidextrous - a lefty-forced righty, right eye dominant, right headed.

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by sandt38 on Aug 16th, 2008 at 10:33am
Right handed, usually left headed, and right eye dominant. And I am a hunter/shooter, so my right eye is VERY dominant.

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by angela.lambert on Aug 16th, 2008 at 7:38pm
right handed, left headed

i feel silly for asking, but how do you know what eye is dominant? ::)

angela

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by Balanchine on Aug 16th, 2008 at 8:24pm
Good question Angela. I'm sure someone will answer it intelligently. Far as I'm concerned both my eyes work equally well.... or poorly. I still can't see in the dark, through walls or terribly well underwater, for instance.

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by maalstroom on Aug 16th, 2008 at 8:34pm

Balanchine wrote on Aug 16th, 2008 at 8:24pm:
Good question Angela. I'm sure someone will answer it intelligently. Far as I'm concerned both my eyes work equally well.... or poorly. I still can't see in the dark, through walls or terribly well underwater, for instance.



Haha David, love reading your posts. They always seem to make me crack a smile or laugh out loud.

I am righthanded, and my clusterside is right. But when I was in the military, I used to aim with my left eye. So now I am confused about what my dominant eye is. They seem to work equally as far as depth is concerned. And I work with my eyes.

Pascal.

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by angela.lambert on Aug 16th, 2008 at 8:42pm
i called my husband and asked him the dominate eye question, he said (in theory) "the side you turn to first....to look behind you".

doesn't quite make sense to me... :-?

angela

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by Balanchine on Aug 16th, 2008 at 9:17pm
Hmm... that presents a real dilemma for me then, Angela. Since I'm doing that every few seconds.

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by angela.lambert on Aug 17th, 2008 at 2:11am
oh no...do you live somewhere scary...? :o

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by DragonSlayer on Aug 17th, 2008 at 7:39am
LOL angela.   ;D

I'm Right handed, Right CH sided, Right eye dominant, and I'm always Right.  ya right.   [smiley=confused.gif]

To check for your dominant eye look at a small object across the room (about 10-20 feet away).  
Form a triangle with your hands by overlaping your thumbs at the knuckles and crossing your fingers over the knuckles of your index fingers.
Hold that triangle at arms length in front of you and with both eyes open look at the object through that triangle, close one eye at a time.
You should notice that one eye will be able to see the object and the other one won't see the object through the triangle.
Your dominant eye is the one that sees the object.

OR

You will usually unconsciously choose your dominant eye when peering through a telescope or camera viewfinder.

Have fun  8-)


Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by angela.lambert on Aug 24th, 2008 at 3:14pm
Ah ha!  

I got it.  Thanks DragonSlayer.  I was cracking myself up because I can not wink my right eye.  And I thought how in the hell am I gonna look only through my left eye.  I decided to make a "OK" sign with my left hand and peer through the "O", using my right hand to cover my right eye.  It worked, just fine ;).  I am very right eye dominant, right handed, and left headed.

Has anyone been keeping tabs on this post and come up with some numbers?  Just curious.

I saw a few lefthead/righthanders out there.

angela

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by BrianJ on Aug 24th, 2008 at 4:32pm
I have looked over the posts and it seems totally random nothing to do with handed or eye dominant it is more likly to do with something chemical or the abnormal grey matter i have read about in someones thread

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by Balanchine on Aug 24th, 2008 at 6:09pm

angela.lambert wrote on Aug 24th, 2008 at 3:14pm:




Has anyone been keeping tabs on this post and come up with some numbers?  

angela


The small sampling thus far is about as evenly mixed as it's possible to get!

R hand, head: 9
L hand, head: 2

R hand, L head: 8
L hand, R head: 2 (of which one was forced L hand-R)

Naturally, I could be completely wrong as I am generally unable to count higher than the fingers on one hand. Either my right or my left. Which I'm continually mixing up.

Some years ago, I actually forgot how to do long division.

D

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by Mrs Wo on Aug 24th, 2008 at 8:26pm
What fun!  I'm right handed, left headed and right eye dominant.  I have 2 left feet!  Do I win the booby prize?  ;D :o

Kathleen

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by angela.lambert on Aug 24th, 2008 at 8:32pm
Whew... ::)

We needed you Kathleen,  now the score is even!   ;D

This is interesting...

angela

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by ClusterChuck on Aug 25th, 2008 at 8:29am
OK, I just had to get in here with this one (even though it is often brought up)   ...

I am Right handed, predominantly Left headed, Right eye ...

AND my right testicle hangs lower than my left ...  Does that enter into the equation?

Chuck

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by BrianJ on Aug 25th, 2008 at 10:45am
LOL chuck im sure your testicles have nothing to do with your headaches unless the are the size of water mellons then that may be a factor

Regards
Brian

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by BC_Battler on Aug 25th, 2008 at 10:56am
I am right handed, although I golf and play hockey left handed.

My attacks in my first year and a half were left-headed. For the last year and a half they have been right-headed.

Never in my life have I thought about my dominant eye! I think I'm right eye dominant as well.


Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by Balanchine on Aug 25th, 2008 at 11:49am
Took a lot of balls to admit that, Chuck.

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by ClusterChuck on Aug 25th, 2008 at 12:22pm

BrianJ wrote on Aug 25th, 2008 at 10:45am:
... unless they are the size of water mellons then that may be a factor


Balanchine wrote on Aug 25th, 2008 at 11:49am:
Took a lot of balls to admit that, Chuck.


Wanna see pictures of them???

LOL



Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by BrianJ on Aug 25th, 2008 at 12:28pm
No thanks chuck some things are better kept private and besides that they may give me a headache if you subject me to that lol

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by ClusterChuck on Aug 25th, 2008 at 1:02pm

BrianJ wrote on Aug 25th, 2008 at 12:28pm:
No thanks chuck some things are better kept private and besides that they may give me a headache if you subject me to that lol


Chicken!!!

Bwawk bwawk bwawk ...

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by Mrs Wo on Aug 25th, 2008 at 1:40pm

Mrs Wo wrote on Aug 24th, 2008 at 8:26pm:
What fun!  I'm right handed, left headed and right eye dominant.  I have 2 left feet!  Do I win the booby prize?  ;D :o

Kathleen


Oh, I see to get the "booby" prize I would have to measure the dominance of another body part! Hmmm...

So Chuck, what prize are you looking to win here!  Dick??? Head??? LOL! Love you man! ;D

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by BrianJ on Aug 25th, 2008 at 2:10pm

ClusterChuck wrote on Aug 25th, 2008 at 1:02pm:

BrianJ wrote on Aug 25th, 2008 at 12:28pm:
No thanks chuck some things are better kept private and besides that they may give me a headache if you subject me to that lol


Chicken!!!

Bwawk bwawk bwawk ...


lol chuck Chicken mabey but im a chicken that can sleep well with out the bad dreams after looking at pics of your testicles, keep hanging bro and im sure someone will want to see them hehe  

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by Balanchine on Aug 25th, 2008 at 2:58pm

Balanchine wrote on Aug 25th, 2008 at 11:49am:
Wanna see pictures of them???

LOL


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Thanks man, but I don't play for that team. But hey, if you're into the whole exhibitionist thing and you've got an audience elsewhere... I say go crazy.

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by maalstroom on Aug 25th, 2008 at 4:24pm

angela.lambert wrote on Aug 24th, 2008 at 3:14pm:
 I was cracking myself up because I can not wink my right eye.  




I am absolutely unable to raise a sarcastic eyebrow on the right.


David, Chuck and all you other balldebaters: I'm a left-testy and wonder if the massive amount of weight on that side is compensated by being clusterheaded on the right side.


Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by BrianJ on Aug 25th, 2008 at 4:34pm

maalstroom wrote on Aug 25th, 2008 at 4:24pm:

angela.lambert wrote on Aug 24th, 2008 at 3:14pm:
 I was cracking myself up because I can not wink my right eye.  




I am absolutely unable to raise a sarcastic eyebrow on the right.


David, Chuck and all you other balldebaters: I'm a left-testy and wonder if the massive amount of weight on that side is compensated by being clusterheaded on the right side.


LOL masive amount of weight you know what they say about men who who brag about whats in there pants dont ya ?? :P and no i dont want to see a pic lol

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by Balanchine on Aug 25th, 2008 at 5:48pm

maalstroom wrote on Aug 25th, 2008 at 4:24pm:
David, Chuck and all you other balldebaters: I'm a left-testy and wonder if the massive amount of weight on that side is compensated by being clusterheaded on the right side.


Er, uh, don't quite know what to say to that, Pascal. Always been a matched set guy, m'self. Have you considered a prosthesis for the neglected right soldier?

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by n_lighty37 on Aug 28th, 2008 at 9:07am
I thought I'd throw in my two cents.  Just for the record...

Right hand, left headed, dominant right eye.

Oh, and that triangle thing was kind of freaky.
:)

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by Perediablo on Sep 2nd, 2008 at 10:34pm
Right handed, left headed. Although I am getting a very strange yet familiar feeling just behind my right eye and in my neck at the moment. Kinda scary really. Oh, and my right big toe is dominant as well.

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by [johnny] on Sep 14th, 2008 at 8:09pm
right handed, right headed

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by swimchica623 on Sep 14th, 2008 at 8:32pm
ooh fun.

Left head.  Left eye dominant, right handed (though I hold my pencil like a lefty and was more ambidextrous when I was little) left foot dominant too.

Lisa

Title: Re: dominant sides?
Post by tuck on Sep 14th, 2008 at 8:59pm
Hell, I must have missed this when it was first posted! I am left side hits, right handed, and left eye dom. In the "Chuck" category,, I am also a righty!        Tuck

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