Is there a doctor in the house?

Originally posted by Garry Shipton
Seriously,I feel for you.I have this throbbing pain from my upper right arm right down to my pinky finger.With all the rain we had here in the east lately,sometimes I can't even raise my arm.I broke my hand twenty years ago playing baseball on the outside just above the pinky finger.What I do is lay on my back on the den couch,stretch my arm out,and lift it up and down.So,stretching,however you do it to ease the pain,does have some effect.
Stay away from soothers,you may feel better for a while but the pain comes back tenfold.

Hi Garry ... lotsa fun, hey? : I often can't raise my arms to even shoulder height, and like you, get VERY deep achey pain in the upper arm (hard to describe but it's awful) Geoff knows the problems I had around the house, as well as how impossible it was for me to sleep because of discomfort and pain. NO position was comfortable ... I've found that my muscles are extremely sensitive to temperature and a little bit "cool" especially damp/humid, can cause a lot of aches and pains, and restrict range of motion A LOT. What often helps is simple, a very hot bath, which warms and soothes/stretches the muscles, and doing little range of motion movements under water. Of course getting out of the bath into cool air it's not long before I'm back to square one again, but it makes you think ... warmth! Keep the house temp warm enough (a drag with utilities costs these days) I think that anything that can strengthen and tone the muscles goes a long way to cutting down on the degrees of pain and range of motion problems. I dream of owning a jacuzzi or a hottub Don't they have a water therapy called "hydrotherapy". What a warm and nice way to start to stretch, strengthen and tone muscles. That would be heaven to me

Funny how under hot water I can turn my left arm/hand all the way face up palms (had to slowly work on that to get that much more movement though) ... but out of it I can't (which means I can't drive any more ether because of that, but that's not currently a problem as I don't have a CMP )

Maybe a little hot water would go a long way for your arm as well ... especially when the weather is aggravating it? Just a thought


Oldtimey Whiney Yappy

By the way, thumb still numb, collar bone still majorly sore at the base of my throat. Yukky.