By Gyll on Tuesday, September 12, 2000 - 10:36 am:

About 4/5 weeks ago, whilst stretching up , I felt my shoulder" pop out " but it seemed to replace ok. A few days later I felt soreness and a burning feeling in my left shoulder, so I avoided lifting. My (hyper) mobility was as usual but I got the jolts of pain, when turning my neck, and sleeping is difficult. I still have full mobility, soreness and some pains but have also noticed skin insensitivity. I feel like I am wearing two pair of gloves, and several layers of clothing on my forearms. I awake with "pins and needles" but can function as normal. The overall sensation is strange, rather than debilitating. I have made a Doc's appointment, but I wonder if fellow HMS folks recognise this. I find that frequent hot showers, soothe the discomfort. The temperature and colour of my arm is normal.
Gyll.

By Gwen on Tuesday, September 12, 2000 - 12:05 pm:

Gyll, it sounds very similar to the problems I am having at present, which I suspect are coming as much from my cervical vertebrae as my shoulder. The whole shoulder girdle feels weird as my sterno-scapular joints click as well as my shoulder. I have previously been told they are basically immovable joints and only concerned with the mechanism of breathing but evidently no-one has told them that as the most definitely go on me. I wake during the night with the sensation that I have been given a nerve block in one (or sometimes both) arm(s) although I am able to move them I have no sensation and boy, does it ache along my ulnar nerve when the anaesthesia wears off. I'm also getting this occasionally in my legs but I have had a spinal injury and compression which I suspect is the cause there. I'm booked to see an orthopod next month so I'll let you know what transpires. Have you read recent posts between Patrick O'Neill and myself on the topic of shoulders?

By Eve on Wednesday, September 13, 2000 - 02:18 am:

I used to have numbness in my right arm and hand, it was because of the problems I have with my neck, it's not too bad now, but I still have problems with my right wrist.