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About 10 years ago I came off my bike on gritstone and dinged my elbow. It got better but every so often if I put my elbow on a table as you do* I'd get a bolt of lightning up my arm. I figured I'd caused some damage to a tendon that was subsequently quite sensitive.
Anyway, that passed but left behind what feels like what it feels like when you put your elbow down on salt on a table. I can feel anything in there but can recreate that horrible sharp feeling easily.
I don't want to have to waste a doctor's time when I'm pretty sure what it is, but where else do I go?
I have had grit from NZ in my elbow since the late nineties when I fell off a car on a gravel track (don't ask) nothing bad has happened
Oh I'm not fearful of that. It's just bloody annoying and right on the spot where my elbow goes on a table
I had that a couple of years ago. Nasty crash on a very wet gravel corner mid triathlon.
I had the grazes cleared out by the event medics, but the cut remained sore and not properly healed.
After about 6-8 months I got fed up and investigated. It was a bit painful but I managed to locate and remove a bit of grit. It was quite deeply embedded. All fine ever since.
It’s not an irritant, but I grazed the back of my left hand around fifty years ago, and some grit was left deep in the skin on my left middle knuckle which is still visible now. I can’t feel it, it’s one of quite a few scars that I’ve aquired over the course of my life, none, however, are of any great significance. It’s only reading this post that’s actually reminded me of it. 🤷🏼♂️
I've something similar, but after an x-ray it turns out it's little bits of bone floating around in my elbow.
I had grit in my elbow for about a decade, then my body for reasons best known to itself decided it had had enough and pushed it out. A blister formed and in the fluid was lump of grit.
It was a touch odd.
I had a thorn in my arm for a couple of months too, until I realised what it was and pulled it out to the "delight" of my female colleagues.
I had grit in my elbow for about a decade, then my body for reasons best known to itself decided it had had enough and pushed it out.
Oddly I am currently wondering if something similar happened to me. Had a pretty nasty cut on my elbow a couple of years back and randomly had a scab appear last week. Cant think of any reason for it beyond maybe some crap working its way out.
I got grit in my elbow from working on my car. This caused an infection in the sack of fluid which protects the elbow. The next day I couldn’t move my arm and had a temp over 40°. Got hospitalised for 5 days on IV antibiotics while they decided if they needed to operate or not. Thankfully it fixed itself and the grit came out. They never explained what the other options were.
I’d go see a doctor.