"In March I started experiencing excruciating pain in my right arm and shoulder burning, zapping, energy-sapping pain that left me unable to think straight, emanating from a nexus of torment behind my shoulder blade and sometimes stretching all the way up to the base of my skull and all the way down into my fingers. Typing was agony, but everything was painful; even at rest it was horrible."
"Traditional pain meds don't really do much for nerve pain. And after trying out the small range of nerve pain medications pills that act on the brain, where pain really lives I discovered that they all sent me loopy in ways I would rather not ever experience again. So I had to figure out how to live with it. My nerves were upset; they had now learned the pain. It would take time to unlearn it."
Severe, burning, zapping pain began in March in the right arm and shoulder, radiating from behind the shoulder blade to the skull base and fingers. The pain made typing, playing guitar and video games, and sleeping impossible, and eroded mental wellbeing. After months the pain eased to a constant hum and doctors diagnosed brachial neuritis, inflammation of the nerve path from the neck to the hand. Neurologists said recovery usually takes one to three years. Standard nerve-pain medications had limited benefit and caused intolerable side effects, forcing adaptation and gradual recovery over time.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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