Phillip,
I say if you live near the city of philadelphia go see my two guys Dr. Park and Dr. Lee they deal in pain management and they are also hooked up with PMC Pharmacy and between all of them they really do keep their patients best intrest at hand.
It's funny that you mentioned the discoloration in your lower arm cause for the longest time I was getting the warm rushes and the pins and needles in my left arm. ( my RSD started in my left foot and then moved up to my left leg/ thigh/and left buttocksand my lower back)
but, recently about a month or so.... I noticed this reddish/purplish discoloration in my left arm... it comes and goes and my left arm is cooler to the touch then my right one. ( I never even gave it a thought until my last doctor's appoint on the 12th so see if there was a tempeture change.)
Talk withyou all soon. Unless I can't make it to the computer. somedays it's harder then others.
Michelle
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From: Phillip99621 <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: activity level
To: "RSD Helpline Support Group" <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, June 19, 2008, 9:57 PM
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| From: Phillip99621 |
Hey guys,
Just wanted to say, you hit my pain sensations to a T as well!
Please describe to me your pain in your hand/forearms if you can.
I've go the pain in my back from my neck down to the middle of the back just right of the spine and all the way back up through my right shoulder blade and down my arm. The reason I ask is because I'm having a really hard time with my right arm from about the elbow down. I get bad pain in the tendons on the right side of my forearm just below the elbow. 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.
I also have some discoloration around the wrist area in
the middle, and to the sides of my tendons and up into the start of my hand too. It just doesn't look right.
I got an xray yesterday, 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 can't take it anymore. I am also liimited to writing about a page in my handwriting before I start to get a throbbing sensation through my wrist. I am majoring in 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 xray comes back negative, where do you suggest I goto if my doctor just wants to dismiss it as "tendinitus"?
Thanks in advance....
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