Well billibob let me be the first to welcome you to the club nobody wants to join.
I don't quite understand what your condition is (brachial plexux nurosis stuff?) or if it is treatable.
I'm sure hope you'll find lots of support and information right here.
I just found this info. thanks to Marieke (32, LOBPI).
I hope you find some understanding.
"Your arm can feel numb in spots, prickly when things touch other spots, feel asleep.. all this is due to nerve damage/disturbance. It falls under the category of neuropathy and neuropathic "pain".
Neuropathy often results in numbness, abnormal sensations called dysesthesias and allodynias that occur either spontaneously or in reaction to external stimuli, and a characteristic form of pain, called neuropathic pain or neuralgia, that is qualitatively different from the ordinary nociceptive pain one might experience from stubbing a toe or hitting a finger with a hammer.
Neuropathic pain is usually perceived as a steady burning and/or "pins and needles" and/or "electric shock" sensations and/or tickling. The difference is due to the fact that "ordinary" pain stimulates only pain nerves, while a neuropathy often results in the firing of both pain and non-pain (touch, warm, cool) sensory nerves in the same area, producing signals that the spinal cord and brain do not normally expect to receive.
Depending on how much damage there is some sensation will return, along with movement, but it can take up to 2 years to see final results."
Scott
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