Monday, June 23, 2008

Side Effect of Surgery???

I've had some problems since my surgery almost two months ago and I don't know whether it's related or completely coincidental- but it would be a very weird coincidence.

Immediately following my surgery or about 5 days following when I was driving I experienced a lot of pain in my right arm, about where my tricep would be. It's hard to explain the pain it's unlike anything else I have experienced it's almost like a cross between either weakness or pain, not quite sure. It's almost like the muscle gets so weak it wants to just give out. It was extremely painful to make the complete drive home or to work. This has improved since my original drive to and from work. I still have problems about 85% of the time when I'm driving and it's really bizarre and uncomfortable it feels like I don't have the strength to hold up my arm while driving but there is no where comfortable to put it or ease the pain- the seat feels annoying and uncomfortable touching my arm. the arm rest doesn't help significantly.

In the past 2 weeks another pain has developed- pain in my pointer and middle finger. They no longer have the strength that they used to, or perhaps they do but the pain limits their use for the time being. I find it painful to open a jar of peanut butter pick things up, move laundry from the washer to the dryer and sometimes not doing much at all. The pain in my fingers is also weird. It actually feels like if I could just shake my hand enough I could shake out the pain-- yeah, it doesn't work though.

I did try to do some research online but there are a myriad of possible causes- one cause that I did see was: Nerve compression---umm, well I'd think that clamping a nerve would certainly be considered nerve compression.

I'll have to wait until my follow up in September and see how things are going.

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