--**-- The Infirmary --**--

[Krakosky]

You might have pinched a nerve...

How do I un-pinch it?

KF any change? Is it numb/tingly?

No change. Numb/tingly yes. Strangest thing I've ever encountered medically. Getting a bit worrisome on what can be done.

get thyself to a dr silly

Did that. Doc is just as perplexed as I am. Said to possibly look into physical therapy. But I don't see what that is going to do.

Depends which nerve you pinched... it could be as far away from your hand as in your neck... stretching and releasing the pressure/compression will make it better but you don't know where to focus without proper diagnoses. I'll see what my bil has to say if I can get a hold of him

This. A year or two ago my arm kept going numb and tingly down to my fingertips. I went to the doctor and he said it was due to a pinched nerve in my neck. I went to PT for a month or two and it got everything loosened up.

 

[knight1fox3]

Sounds like PT is the answer here for now. Trying to find a good one locally. Thanks for all the feedback!

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

I still think the axe is faster.

 

[MA_PE]

or you could shoot it off, Call Jose Cansanco for some pointers.

 

[engineergurl]

my lymph-nodes are so swollen that I sort of feel like I swallowed a bunch of knives and one got stuck half way down.

 

[snickerd3]

^ not fun! feel better

 

[knight1fox3]

^ not fun! feel better

x2

 

[ventilator]

I used to get tingling down my left arm and into my shoulder area. It got really bad when I was studying for PE exam and turns out it was from bad posture from being at desk 12hrs a day between work and studying. It was in my neck which is why it went down my side. I tend to rest my left elbow on desk which raises that shoulder up, led to tightened muscles and I had to go to chiro for a little while to loosen it back up.

Never got as bad as losing function though.

 

[knight1fox3]

Doesn't appear to be the case since I have no distinguishable pain in either my neck or arm. Condition persists...

 

[snickerd3]

do you have an appt with an ortho yet?

 

[knight1fox3]

do you have an appt with an ortho yet?

Going to see a 2nd physician today (in addition to our in-house doctor) and also going to visit with our in-house PT. I have an appt. with a hand PT specialist next Tue which was the soonest I could get in. At this point I just want to know what is causing it and how to correct it.

 

[NJmike PE]

At this point I just want to know what is causing it and how to correct it.

fixt

 

[knight1fox3]

Well EB, this post comes to you from a medical anomaly. Even the orthopedic surgeon I saw today is perplexed. No good reason for this. Time for a nerve EMG.

Also, If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?

 

[NJmike PE]

Cut it off.

"fixed the newel post."

 

[knight1fox3]

EMG scheduled for Tuesday. <sigh>

 

[snickerd3]

I understand the frustration of perplexing the specialists. That triangular area on the back of the hand between the middle and pinky finger went pop one day and I couldn't hold anything with any sort of weight in that hand for weeks. both xray and MRI showed absolutely nothing. The hand Dr basically said his best guess was a microtear that didn't show up in the scans. He prescribed some voltaran gel to penetrate that deep into the muscles. it still acts up every now and again

 

[knight1fox3]

I understand the frustration of perplexing the specialists. That triangular area on the back of the hand between the middle and pinky finger went pop one day and I couldn't hold anything with any sort of weight in that hand for weeks. both xray and MRI showed absolutely nothing. The hand Dr basically said his best guess was a microtear that didn't show up in the scans. He prescribed some voltaran gel to penetrate that deep into the muscles. it still acts up every now and again

That's about the closest thing I've heard that compares to my condition. I don't think anything for me would show up on X-ray or MRI. Kind of glad they are going straight to EMG which seems will give the most definitive information. The timing is most unfortunate as I have my mid-term this week.

 

[NJmike PE]

bring me his arm

 

[knight1fox3]

Time for an upgrade

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

Remember, Luke Skywalker did it.