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11-12-12, 23:45
hello I'm here to get more support and to support others best I can.....
here's the issues I'm dealing with:
2002: diagnosed with severe generalized anxiety disorder with 'non cardiac chest/arm pain' that stops you still and is quite frightening it feels like stabbing and heavy tingling
2002 - 2008: chest xrays/physiotherapy/face to face cbt/phone cbt/trial & error with medication/psychiatrist help they tried pretty much everything including change of diet and even lifestyle but it just never improved no matter I've slowly had to accept that chest pain will be there permanently
2009- mid 2011: right and left hand severe CTS symptons application of splint for 6 months didn't help so surgery was booked for feb 2011 on the right hand (nerve conduction studies did not confirm CTS) onto sept 2011 and the surgery basically hadn't worked and I was told by a consultant with 20 years experience in hand surgery that I would never be pain free in my right hand
Jan 2012 - present: right and left severe CTS has deteriorated to the point where it's killing all the time and if I use either hand repetitively for more than a 3-5 minutes or so it's in agony so I have to stop it's as if it needs to recover
December 2012 - my new GP practice is much better they've today tried me on a fentanyl patch and provided some axsain gel so hopefully I get some relief
They've MRI'd my spine/spine thoracic, done neck xrays, electromyographic tests, more nerve conduction studies, blood tests
Having done all those tests they found nothing and have put it down to the severe GAD affecting more of my body saying it's years of over tensing myself without realizing
I've been referred to a pain management clinic and they've booked me in for acupuncture but it's a long wait, my GP has me on dihydrocodeine 240mg/day, ibuprofen 1200mg/day and paracetamol 4g/day which is a fairly strong combination AFAIK and it doesn't help much - it does lessen the stiffness in my neck
Your thoughts on this would be much appreciated this is a lot of pain (for me anyway) and it's constant I've been onto A & E several times and they give me tramadol which doesn't help
I've been doing CBT day in day out for nearly 10 years now and it's had some great positive effects on my anxiety but the physical symptoms have never improved which makes no sense to me
if someone offered me I'd take carpal tunnel over this anyday it's just constantly sore with what can only be described as electric shock feelings in my fingers/knuckles and up all the way to the shoulder, there's no swelling though
if you read this far well done and thanks for reading
if the deterioration rate continues like the last 6 months has I won't have any use come 2 years or so, I'm 28 years old
here's the issues I'm dealing with:
2002: diagnosed with severe generalized anxiety disorder with 'non cardiac chest/arm pain' that stops you still and is quite frightening it feels like stabbing and heavy tingling
2002 - 2008: chest xrays/physiotherapy/face to face cbt/phone cbt/trial & error with medication/psychiatrist help they tried pretty much everything including change of diet and even lifestyle but it just never improved no matter I've slowly had to accept that chest pain will be there permanently
2009- mid 2011: right and left hand severe CTS symptons application of splint for 6 months didn't help so surgery was booked for feb 2011 on the right hand (nerve conduction studies did not confirm CTS) onto sept 2011 and the surgery basically hadn't worked and I was told by a consultant with 20 years experience in hand surgery that I would never be pain free in my right hand
Jan 2012 - present: right and left severe CTS has deteriorated to the point where it's killing all the time and if I use either hand repetitively for more than a 3-5 minutes or so it's in agony so I have to stop it's as if it needs to recover
December 2012 - my new GP practice is much better they've today tried me on a fentanyl patch and provided some axsain gel so hopefully I get some relief
They've MRI'd my spine/spine thoracic, done neck xrays, electromyographic tests, more nerve conduction studies, blood tests
Having done all those tests they found nothing and have put it down to the severe GAD affecting more of my body saying it's years of over tensing myself without realizing
I've been referred to a pain management clinic and they've booked me in for acupuncture but it's a long wait, my GP has me on dihydrocodeine 240mg/day, ibuprofen 1200mg/day and paracetamol 4g/day which is a fairly strong combination AFAIK and it doesn't help much - it does lessen the stiffness in my neck
Your thoughts on this would be much appreciated this is a lot of pain (for me anyway) and it's constant I've been onto A & E several times and they give me tramadol which doesn't help
I've been doing CBT day in day out for nearly 10 years now and it's had some great positive effects on my anxiety but the physical symptoms have never improved which makes no sense to me
if someone offered me I'd take carpal tunnel over this anyday it's just constantly sore with what can only be described as electric shock feelings in my fingers/knuckles and up all the way to the shoulder, there's no swelling though
if you read this far well done and thanks for reading
if the deterioration rate continues like the last 6 months has I won't have any use come 2 years or so, I'm 28 years old