Wet sensation good or bad?
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Benlee
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- Injury Description, Date, extent, surgical intervention etc: Right side 5 root avultion C5-T1. Motorcycle accident Aug 2011, spinal reimplantation Sep 2011.
Wet sensation good or bad?
Anybody get a sensation like cold water running down bpi arm? Btw 4 mths post spinal reimplantation at queens london. C5,6,7,8,T1 avulsion aug 2011
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jmar
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- Injury Description, Date, extent, surgical intervention etc: brachial plexus stretch during thoracic outlet syndrome surgery on may 18, 2010.
Re: Wet sensation good or bad?
i was always "drying" my arm for several months. now i just ignore it unless i know it is really wet. feels like water running up my arm when it is pointed down. now that is a really weird sensation. my arm also feels like it flash freezes from shoulder to fingertips when i touch something that is not necessarily cold, but just a bit cool. nothing surprises me when it comes to strange sensations.
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RockClimber
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- Injury Description, Date, extent, surgical intervention etc: 7/16/09 - Hit by boulder in left shoulder/spine, threw me off 8 ft rock ledge onto solid rock, then tumbled 20 ft down rocky/gravel hill till stopped by sagebrush. TBPI! Immediate result was dead arm/hand for months. Fingers/hand/wrist/forearm/ shoulder/bicep have come back respectively. Currently full use of hand/forearm, full rotation of arm/shoulder, no strength in bicep/shoulder/back. I'm like the lopsided guy in the fruit roll up commercial hopping on one leg. Most important thing I learned is that I didn't push the doctors enough about a possible surgery, and this was HARBORVIEW (the hospital Greys Anatomy is based on). My orthopedic doctor indicated that my trauma doctors did not refer me to him soon enough to possibly transplant nerves.. They wanted to monitor the natural progress of healing because it was happening, but s.l.o.w.l.y.. So they used up my surgical possiblities by wanting to watch.
Re: Wet sensation good or bad?
My experience has been that my elbo will feel wet. I don't know if its more mental than nerves, but when I put my elbo on the table I occasionally feel like I put it in a puddle of cold water. 100% of the time there has been no water and after feeling it with my other hand it is not wet.. I asked the specialist at Harborview and they didn't know what I was talking about and, not suprisingly, neither did my local MD or physical therapist. I still feel it and I'm 2 1/2 years out from my accident.
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jmar
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- Injury Description, Date, extent, surgical intervention etc: brachial plexus stretch during thoracic outlet syndrome surgery on may 18, 2010.
Re: Wet sensation good or bad?
is your specialist a neurosurgeon or a BPI SPECIALIST?