tyler7

Wow, it has been a LONG time since I've posted here. Quite frankly I'm suprised I even remembered my password. I'm not sure if there's anyone still around that would recognize my name or not.

Anyhow what brings me here tonight is a sort of recurrence of a symptom and I obviously won't be talking to my doc yet for a while a bit, so thought what the hell I'll come bring it up here in the time being for any feedback. Basically, I've still been suffering now from the same thing that I've been for over 3 years, a pinched nerve in my right shoulder (more officially called "Brachial Plexitis"). My initial symptoms way back then where, in addition to numbness in part of my right hand, in fact the very FIRST symptom was a horrible stabbing pain in my right shoulder blade. That lasted at the time for probably at least a few months, but as it stands now my only symptom, and has been the case for a very long time, probably at least the last 2 years of the whole "illness", would be a burning/stinging type pain all around the area of the skin on my right bicep.

Now as harsh as that may be, it's actually pretty much been the ONLY symptom I've now had for awhile. I've still been on Methadone for it, never stopped, still at 5mg 3x a day (honestly I'd like to talk with my Pain Mgmt doc about increasing but I'm deathly afraid that my bringing that up will make him really rethink the situation and then end up wanting to take me off it altogether). I've also worn the Lidocaine patches when I can get free samples.

However, what brings me to this point now is, in addition to the usual burning pain in my bicep area, the last couple weeks now I've been starting to have the sharp stabbing sensation return to my scapula area. Granted, never QUITE as bad at any single time as it was when it first came on (I mean back then I very literally felt like I'd had a blade being sunk into my back), but still very significant.

Now, I know generally speaking both from word of my Pain doc and a Neurologist I've consulted with (& all the private research I've done on this), there's nothing for me actively to do to "repear" this injury, I'm simply got to wait until it heals. I do'nt know at this point when it will and ALL pain will subside, I'm already kinda past the point of when most patients with this have it go away. But I thought at the very least I'd come back here to ask the community that, based on me starting to have this shoulder blade pain again, do you suppose that's possibly a sign of either improvement or it in fact getting worse now?

Thanks very much. I hope everyone had a nice New Years celebration.

-Kevin