United Brachial Plexus Network, Inc.

Hi all I havent visited this site in close to a decade untill a few days ago. Pain has just really gotten to me over the last week. I would like to know if you get pain and what you think is the trigger. I have a flail left arm from a motocycle accident in 2001 (c4-t2 complete avulsion). I think tempreature change is a trigger, when my arm is consistently very cold it is ok. However when i start to heat it up i get the extremly sharp pain we all love, this leads me to belive that it is related to blood flow and maybe something to do with what ever nerve controls the skin temp? This is my drunken ramblings but we are the experts the doctors have no idea so give your ideas and maybe we can help each other.

humidity is a big contributer to the pain i find.
daniel

I typically don't have pain (be it from weather or activity). Except once when I took an extremely long flight from San Francisco to Mumbai. About 1 or two hours prior to landing I began feeling a sharp cutting-like pain in my elbow. The only way to relieve some of the pain was to hold on to the seat top in front of me.

Could perhaps be something to do with blood flow –- even if you do plane exercises it's still not your every days movements.