Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Help
From: Ellen.Jones@f140.n150.z1.fidonet.org (Ellen Jones)
Date: 2 Sep 92 14:09:13 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:150/140 - Black Bag BBS, Wilmington DE

I have a friend on another BBS who asked me to post her message here.
She is desparate for help.  Is there anyone out there who has an idea
what's wrong with her??

|Hey everybody out there, I have a question for you.  See if you
|can help me out on this thing........
|About 8 yrs. ago I started to have trouble with my neck and left
|arm.  There was a lot of tension in my neck and shoulder and some
|pain in my arm and some of my fingers seemed weak.  The doctor x-
|rayed this and said it was maybe a touch of bursitus.  Over the
|years the pain increased and eventually I could not use my arm,
|it was just too painful. My left arm and hand was also very
|clumsey and I avoided using these parts at all.  In Feb. after
|losing my job I went on a quest to find out what this was.  The
|pain had reached such an intensity that I was down to a 20 hr.
|work week, it just hurt too bad to sit still.  My family
|physician sent me to an orthopedic doctor because I had this pain
|and a really unique poppity-crunch noise behind my shoulder
|blade.  This new doctor said the poppity-crunch was only a noisy
|had a pinched nerve and sent me off for an EMG.  The EMG results
|were irritated nerves in the neck and he told me to do neck
|exercises and gave me Lodine for inflammation. A couple of weeks
|later I brought in a bunch of firewood, got up the next morning
|and my right arm was aching badly and my right hand stayed ice
|cold.  Within the next few days my right fingers kept going numb
|temporarily.  I thought, uh oh, this is about how my left arm
|started out.  About ten days later I was sitting on the sofa,
|everything on the left was just killing me ; as usual; I reached
|down for the newspaper, jerked a bad crick in my back?neck? and
|all the pain on my left miracurously disappeared. This is where
|the fun starts.......The next night my neck and shoulders started
|to burn, my arms ached and throbbed, at night I had heat and
|sweat coming off of me, had great big spiders in the back of my
|legs, my hands and feet were flashing on and off, red and
|swollen, then back to normal,I also felt like I had fiberglass
|sprinkled all over my shoulders and had , what felt like sparks
|of fire all down my back and randomly in my hands, feet, legs,
|stomach, etc, felt like I had a crushing weight bearing down,
|could not stay on my feet, had to lay down every little while and
|kept coming unglued like I was shaking apart.After about 3 wks.
|of this weirdness, I dragged myself to my family phys. (coming
|unglued the whole time) he looks at me and says uh-oh better take
|some blood and see what's happening, told me to take the Lodine
|and gave me bunches of muscle relaxers.  Still wasn't feeling any
|better, called him the next week , he was on vacation, called him
|the next week, off for holiday, but then I woke up one morning
|and had a fairly decent day and thought who needs him; I have
|muscle relaxers. I went through all kinds of changing conditions
|with my back and neck cramping up, when my arms were throbbing
|and burning and muscle twitching I couldn't control my hands.For
|2 1/2 months I was afraid to get out of the house because I kept
|coming unglued.But gradually did feel a lot better than I did at
|first. I lost a tremendous amount of sleep with this thing and
|still am. At night the least little thing would wake me and I
|would be awake until bedtime the next night.( Had to drink Brandy
|to sleep) If I tried to sleep during the day, although exhausted,
|like I had been hit with a jolt of electricity, or my hands or my
|feet, or my right leg. I had some mysterious bruises and I am
|pretty sure this caused them. I ran out of Lodine in July and the
|bugs started to come back in my legs, also my right leg was
|cramping completely up on me, and all the muscles in both legs
|got all twitchy like my arms. Went back to my family phys.(been
|seeing him for about 13 yrs, we're good buddies, or so I
|thought)told him about all this and ask him what my blood
|analysis told him.  He said he had it checked  for mineral
|imbalances, calcium, etc. , and I caught a glimpse of the lab
|report in my folder and thought, boy this is gonna cost me, he
|goes the only thing wrong is your cholesteral is a little
|high.I'm thinking, duh, it caused all that? I say I never got a
|bill on that lab work and he says, oh, you're all paid up???  So
|I didn't get a copy.  I told him that I had discovered that a lot
|of Brandy got me off to sleep and quieted things down, but that
|the muscle relaxers didn't keep me from jumping around.  He told
|me to take Xanax to sleep and to stay on the Lodine for 6 more
|months. He also asked me if I was depressed and kept looking at
|me like I might sprout horns.
|My question is:  DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHAT HAPPENED AND IF YOU DO
|WOULD IT SHOW UP ON A BLOOD ANALYSIS?  I really feel like my
|doctor knew something but was keeping it to himself. I also have
|a hard time believing all this blood work was free.
|JUST REAL CURIOUS ABOUT THIS WHOLE THING......
|Thanks
|Via SPITFIRE Bulletin Board System - Version 3.2
|The Holston River Valley BBS   New Market,TN.  (615)475-1080
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|The Holston River Valley BBS New Market, Tennessee


If anyone out there can help my friend, I'm sure she'll appreciate it.
I will of course transfer all responses to her BBS.

Thanks.

Ellen
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