Nerve Irritation in Shoulder/Elbow/Forearm

[twitchamy]

Sounds like a lot of people on this board have mild injuries that impact nerves. (Back or spinal disc problems or carpal tunnel, etc...)

I have not been 'formally diagnosed'--but I'm positive I have some sort of nerve irritation in my left shoulder and elbow/forearm area from overuse...handling two kids three years old and under. My shoulder often feels pinched when rotated certain directions, and my forearm often feels weak and has shooting pains.

I plan on speaking to my primary care about this and possibly pursuing evaluation by an orthopedic.

Anyway, I recall reading somewhere on the web, that if you have one area of your body that has nerve irritation or injury...sometimes the nerves will cause twitching as part of the repair/regeneration process. Likewise, sometimes the entire nervous system can respond (or over-respond) and cause other random twitches in the body.

I have no idea if this is true---but seeing all the recent posts with people mentioning back problems and carpal tunnel...it made me remember seeing that blurb somewhere on the web. I'll try to search for it and post the link if I can find it.

Curious to know how many people on this board have some type of injury that irritates a nerve or group of nerves.

Has anyone else heard anything about this?

Amy

 

[Droid4Free]

Mine all started with bad back pain, just to the right of my spine. theory was I had pulled it and the resultant irritation made me twitch body wide. that was 5 years ago...the back pain subsequnetly went away after intense massage therapy for a few months, but the twitches have not and have gotten more active as of late. Thus my hysteria

 

[ScoopViper5]

I have scoliosis that is the curvature of the spine, just in case you didn't know. But my doctor didn't think there was a relation. I felt maybe my curve was progressing and pushing things over and possibly causing some nerves to go haywire. I know scoliosis caused my tingling, so why not twitching. Oh well who knows. I personally think there is a back relation.

 

[JohnnyRotten]

Amy,

I just posted a similar thread about this topic too. Like you I also believe most of the twitching is due to nerve irritation. Some folks here have actual injuries, but I am talking more about general nerve irritation for no known reason. I suspect a germ (maybe viral or bacterial) because my wife has recently joined the BFS club thanks to me

One of my problem areas have been my top neck as I have been able to trace several twitches throughout my body to this area.

 

[usysparawl]

I had back surgery 16 years ago. Sciatic nerve damage in left leg. 6 weeks ago, my left leg started twitching. No pain, though. My orthoped thinks there is a connection. He x-rayed and there is narrowing space in the old damaged discs. I would buy this, but I do have a random twitch now and then elsewhere -- but your theory would explain that. . . . 24/7 in my left calf. It is disturbing. Hope this theory is correct!

Peg

 

[Alonzo]

I've had a bad case of hemorrhoids since I was a kid too, but that doesn't mean it caused my BFS We ALL have our ailments. That is bound to happen the way we lift things, fall, get in car / bike wrecks, skiing accidents and everything else we do in life for "fun". Our backs and necks are one of the first places to get injured and the mass population has these problems too, but they don't have BFS.

This was brought-up when some people thought Herpes was the cause of BFS. Geeze, it's more than 1 in 3 of the population that has HSV 1 or 2 (or both), being that if you've EVER had a cold sore, or the Chicken Pox, you HAVE been exposed to the Herpes virus, and yet the population mass doesn't have BFS.

We also all get colds, flu's, alergies and so on, but that doesn't mean that just because we have a common denominator in any one of thjse, that it's the underlying cause of BFS.