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Hey guys,
I am looking for anyone that can give me potential advice/suggestions into what may be going on with some issues in my right arm, basically from the elbow down. I've been having pain that has progressively gotten worse over the last 2 weeks, but it's come and gone for a few months on and off for quite a while. I worked with computers for the last 13 years professionally and I've been around computers for 23 years, since the age of 6.
I don't think this is carpal tunnel and neither does my doctor, but I'm really starting to wonder now if it may be, or something else close
I will attempto to describe to you my pain in my hand/forearms as best I can. But first I'll give you a little background on my RSD. My RSD is in my back, due to an auto accident in 2003. It's only in my back from my neck to the middle right of my spine, back up through my right shoulder blade and through my shoulder, and down my arm sometimes. But now I've had this other issue starting with my right arm that's hard to determine weather it's RSD or not... .
I've got the pain through my right shoulder blade and down my arm usually on the bottom side of my upper arm, and to the outside portion of my forearm on the right side of my forearm just below the elbow. Basically I'm so sensitve and hypersensitive to touch it's not funny. My back is extremely sensative to touch, and heat. I make it an effort to wear sleeveless tshirts as much as possible, and ice as much as I can too. I also just got a huge 32oz. pump bottle of BioFreeze and I've been having it put on my back, and all the way down my right arm probably 2 times/day average.
So the reason I ask for your experiences and thoughts on my situation, is partially because I'd like to get the best info I can on this issue. Moving on, this past week I've been having a really hard time with my right arm, specifically at my wrist where it meets my hand. I get really bad pain in the tendons, and also I have pain on the right side of my forearm just below the elbow (also tendon pain). The spot where I have the hardest time and the most pain though, is right on the underside of my forearm, basically where the wrist connects into the hand. The pain starts in the middle of my arm (on the tendons) from about 3 inches below where the wrist and the hand meet, and goes into my hand into the middle of my hand and also affects my thumb severely. It feels like my tendons are severely inflamed, and very fatigued, even after writing 1 sentence. I haven't been able to pinpoint anything that triggers the pain either.
I have some discoloration of dark blue/light brown in the wrist area in the center on and just outside the tendons. It just doesn't look right.
I saw my pain management/RSD doctor yesterday and first off, we did an x-ray yesterday. I've not heard back about it yet, but I'm willing to bet it's not broke. I've also gone and gotten occupational therapy for about the last 6 weeks and it's to the point today that I couldn't take the pain anymore just moving around my hand, fingers and wrist. I was also so inflamed earlier this week that I could twirl my wrist and hear almost every single one of my tendons pop inside my wrist.
I am also limited to writing about a page in my handwriting before I start to get throbbing brutal pain through my wrist and into my hand kind of angling towards my thumb sometimes too. It's sad because my college major is animation/illustration in college and I was just almost healthy enough to start drawing again until this latest flare up
I do exercises lightly to stretch my tendons in my arm and keep things moving at a minimum so I don't get stiff, as well as the contrast baths I'm doing every morning and sometimes 2 times a day for bringing down the inflammation.
If you don't know what a contrast bath is, then listen up. Take 2 plastic bins and fill them with water. The bin should be big enough to fit water and your your hand, wrist, and part of your foresarm (ideally) submerged when it's filled with water. You fill one with ice cold water, and the other bin with hot water. Then you start off by putting your hand in one bin for 30 secs, take it out immediately put it into the other bin for another 30 seconds. Keep doing this without stopping for a break for up to 7-10 minutes for the best results. The bath helps relief some of the tension and calms things down.
Anyway, my questions are.....Does anyone have any similar experience with pain in the wrist/into the hand like I'm having? or in the right side of the forearm from the tendons? If so what worked best for pain relief? If my X-ray comes back negative, where do you suggest I goto if my doctor just wants to dismiss it as "tendinitis"?
Thanks in advance....
~Phil |
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