[Closed] Right arm constantly aches and also pins and needles in my hand??

Might be a radial nerve issue.... Sounds similar to what I had years ago, but I lost my right arm / hand altogether for almost a year. Get it checked out....

Ulnar nerve entrapment somewhere. Best thing to do is look up ulnar nerve mobilisations on google and see what that suggests.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulnar_nerve_entrapment#Cubital_tunnel_syndrome

Not possible to diagnose over the internet - you need proper neurological examination by your GP.

This could be anything from Ulnar Neuritis/nerve compression, Brachial Neuralgia, a cervical disc prolapse, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome with something else, etc etc etc... before you get on to more serious things. The list is very long.

If any one here gives you a definite single answer - don't believe them. This pattern of symptoms sometimes takes nerve conduction studies to settle the issue...

And it's not radial nerve... wrong side of the hand. Ulnar nerve can do it - but so can pathology in the brachial plexus, in your 8th cervical nerve root etc etc...

Beware of people with little experience of seeing this suggesting only the thing they know about or have suffered...

Get it checked

Wouldnt trust a GP to diagnose anything like that correctly......

As above. See yOur gp. If they can't do conduction studies get a referral to ortho or neurol who can

i put my back out a couple of days before this started(this time i mean not originally)lifting a heavy object at work?

I had the same problem and was diagnosed with bad AIDS (via an internet forum). Probably the same thing.

[b]SBZ[/b] not sure I'd trust you if you had that attitude. A GP should examine you properly, document what is happening, and if there is not a simple and obvious solution, refer you on to someone who can work it out.

What they won't do is what many therapists might do, attach their pet diagnosis to it, charge you for treating it, and then assume they have been successful because you don't come back after a while, having gone to get it diagnosed properly.

As I said - anyone who thinks there is one simple and definite cause for this ain't been around for very long...

[b]Twin[/b] it [i]could[/i] be good AIDS...

What attitude is that?

I am with you on the many therapists ascribing their pet diagnosis to a condition though, but would open that up to anyone that works in medicine or healthcare.

[b]SBZ[/b]

Wouldnt trust a GP to diagnose anything like that correctly......

yet you were willing to make a single diagnosis over the internet... 🙄

A little more experience and you will find out just how often it isn't that simple...

Seen the same presentation with an epidural abscess, similar ones with demylination...

but hey, I'm humbled - you must be right! Sorry... my mistake...

Hmmm, good AIDS, bad AIDS... I note that you list your as condition 'achey', this is consistent with cat AIDS, think of it as the Jens Voigt of the AIDS world.

No i wasnt, only an idiot would do that. I merely suggested the most common condition.

I still most definitely wouldnt trust a GP to make an accurate diagnosis on such a condition though.

I suppose good/cat AIDS could be a possibility. Or Ebloa/Lassa fever. Either way, internet diagnosis is the only way of getting to the bottom of it.

[b]Twin[/b] whatever it is - I am sure a sports massage would get to the bottom of it...

[b]SBZ[/b] mate - you offered just one diagnosis with no suggestion of doubt, and suggested one solution. Do I have to QFT your ass to prove it?

Didnt offer any diagnosis. Merely suggested the most common condition and a method to fix that condition. Only an idiot would give a diagnosis on such limited information. Experience tells me that GPs are as good as useless when it comes to nerve or msk related problems.

Get some conduction studies if not resolving. As mentioned this could be many many things. Some gp's do struggle with msk stuff. As does everyone sometimes. They also have to know about a whip

Didnt offer any diagnosis... Only an idiot would give a diagnosis on such limited information...

Ulnar nerve entrapment somewhere. Best thing to do is look up ulnar nerve mobilisations on google and see what that suggests.

So as well as willing to write off the abilities of 30000 fellow professionals, you are willing to admit you are an idiot... or have a very short memory... 😀

Experience tells me that GPs are as good as useless when it comes to nerve or msk related problems.

My GP diagnosed my rather rare issue very quickly indeed!

Get some conduction studies if not resolving. As mentioned this could be many many things. Some gp's do struggle with msk stuff. As does everyone sometimes. They also have to know about a whole lot of stuff and differentiate rubbish from harmless and serious pathology. I wouldn't want to do it.....

Ease up on the ****ing and you'll be fine.

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Ease up on the ****ing and you'll be fine.
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Classy

Ease up on the ****ing and you'll be fine.

You said it, everyone else was thinking it

StoatsBrother,

unfortunately I too had a poor experience at a GP with a 'dead arm'.

Many GPs are brilliant (when I lived in Watford, Dr Smita Patel in particular was fabulous) but sadly, not all are as good.

FJ - very sorry to hear it. But SBZ is saying he wouldn't trust any of them. And he is suggesting one diagnosis, over the Internet... Seeing a GP will usually be only the first step.

Are your arms still the same circumference? As Stoatsbrother says, get it seen to as a matter of urgency. There is a long list of potential maladies and some are serious. Good GP's know when they don't know. The best will tell you this. Hope it clears up.

is there an indifferent AIDS - for the ambivalent among us ?

I have a bit of a tingle in my dingle

had similar consultants wrote it off as musuclal skeletol hung about for best part of 18 months..