Hypoxia and Medicine

What was this medical condition I remember from House MD?

I'm trying to research this medical condition, and I seem to remember it fuzzily because it was talked about on House MD. It's kind of like the opposite of phantom limb syndrome, where the patient didn't feel like his limb (an arm?) belonged to him. I'm not sure if there was a loss of sensation or if he could move it, the condition was mainly that he had felt for a long time that the limb was not a part of him and wanted it removed.

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1. LUPUSSSSSSSSSS Sorry, I don't know. But me and my friends watch A LOT of house. (Harr Harr. 4 episodes a day, this summar) And they're always talking about Lupus...and if it isn't Lupus....autoimmune...
2. Its not lupus could it be apotemnophilia (Body integrity identity disorder ) thats where they want healthy limbs cut off and such.
3. He wanted it off because he truly couldn't control his hand, a side of his brain was screwed up in surgery, it wasn't a "psychiatric disorder where he wanted a healthy limb lobbed off", as the other guy so helpfully said it could have been. >.> I saw this episode a couple days ago, it's called "Both sides now" Season 5 Episode 24. Here's How his hand became "alien." "House and the team are intrigued by Scott (Ashton Holmes), a man who has undergone a corpus callosotomy procedure to treat epilepsy. The procedure left him with independently functioning left and right brain hemispheres and two distinct personalities, resulting in loss of conscious control over some of his actions, including those of his left hand, a condition known as alien hand syndrome." - wikipedia "At the same time, it is reported that the patient with alien hand syndrome, Scott, is really suffering from a reaction to an ingredient in the industrial-strength deodorant he uses (which his 'alien hand' had known all along, hurling the bottle of deodorant away from his body whenever it got near him and even hitting his girlfriend" -wikipedia He had surgery to treat epilepsy but they messed up and he can't control his left hand, resulting in "Alien hand syndrome." Hope I helped. :)