Does anyone have any experience structuring training around this? It's extremely difficult to tell if I'm making it worse, because nothing I do hurts in the moment and symptoms don't show up until the next day.
In my case the issue was clearly caused by poor posture but got way worse a few months ago. I started doing nerve glides and overhauled my posture (it was grueling for 4-6 weeks but no longer takes effort) but my neck muscles are still extremely reactive and overdeveloped. By the time I got in to see a PT said I've been doing everything right (thanks Hooper's Beta) and to more or less just keep it up, but had no climbing specific insight or timeline before it chills out.
Have any of you struggled with this and how did it affect your climbing / vice versa?
Disclaimer: I am not asking this as an alternative to seeking professional medical advice. I'm already on a path to recovery and am just looking to optimize.
If you can relate please comment !!
So I (19) (F) had had once a year since I was 12, in 2014, a random severe cramp sensation for a whole day and I would not be able to stand up straight without pain and I wouldn't be able to pee without this severe cramp from my belly button that felt like inside someone was pulling on a tight string attached to behind my belly button... I have been to the ER every time it happens, they tested my urine and blood. No utis, no infections, nothing even showed up on CT scans!! Doctors are as confused as me. They gave me Toridol thru IV to help with the pain. In 2019 I was tested for a rare thing called Anterior Cutaneous Nerve Entrapment Syndrome. It is your nerves firing and saying they're in pain when they're not in pain, if that makes sense. It's pain due to entrapped nerves in the abdominal wall. So just pain in the abdominal wall for no reason just because the nerves are upsetti Spaghetti haha. I am thinking it is due to Anterior Cutaneous Nerve Entrapment Syndrome, because, when I was diagnosed with it in 2019, they prescribed me gabapentin, which is a Nerve/ muscle relaxer, and after taking it since then until today in 2021, I haven't had this pee cramp since before I got on gabapentin in 2019.
I have ACNES aka nerve compression syndrome. Repetitive movements will shrink the nerve and cause it to misfire. I, unfortunately, have it in a place where repetitive motion is not optional. Unless I want to lay on your back 14 hours a day, I will continue to compress my nerves and they can't heal.
Wondering if anyone else has experienced? I posted to my type of cancer sub but no one had experienced.
During/since taxol I started having neuropathy symptoms but they didn't follow the typical patterns (not bilateral, positional rather than constant).
Come to find out that agents that can cause neuropathy can also flare up any pre-existing nerve compression.
In my case it's cervical nerve roots and carpal tunnel both of which I didn't know I had but have been confirmed by MRI and EMG.
I can't sleep, I can barely use hands for anything. The pain is really awful. In fact to post this is the longest ive used my phone in months because it causes my symptom to flare up. My hands are white hot pain right now. Gabapentin helps some...
but my main question is: If you experienced nerve compression due to a chemo agent did it improve in the timeline neuropathy is expected to?
None of my providers will go anywhere near this question as it seems they just don't know.
So I have a mild broad based bulge at l5s1 barely touching s1 nerve and moderate pain burning and tingling at l5 s1 and s2 dermatome AND sometimes other leg also! How is this possible? Might not the bulge is the root of symptoms?
I'm just 18 years old, but so far I've had two surgeries to decompress my median nerves for both of my hands, and I still have Cubital Tunnel Syndrome and two trigger fingers.
I was wondering if any of you have (had) similar problems and whether this could be related to EDS?
I’ve been lurking on this sub for awhile because I suspected GP, but still have not seen an actual GI yet (referral took forever.) My doctor decided to run tests in the meantime and they found SMAS & NCS… curious if anyone else has any vascular compressions/ how common it is to have GP too?
TL;DR: Recurrent elbow/shoulder/finger/rib dislocations/subluxations. Elbow pain. Pain from collarbone/neck to index finger. Worse every morning. Pins and needles when arms raised above head or chest. Headaches from neck pain that improves with neck manipulations. Nothing seems to help elbows or stop the paresthesia. TOS?
BACKGROUND: Okay so I’m not yet diagnosed by a geneticist but my doctor and cardiologist both think I have EDS. I got a diagnosis of BJHS at 14 (now 27). Anyway, I saw this elbow and shoulder specialist at 14 in a children’s hospital for elbow/shoulder dislocations which were really interfering with my life/ability to play team sports and at the time he just gave me exercises to do to reduce the rate of them and sent me to a specialised physio who had dealt with hypermobility to the extent that it caused frequent dislocations. Honestly my memory sucks so I’m not sure what he did but I remember having to quit all sport, which sucked because I loved it.
Fast forward to now….I wake up every morning with extra pain and inflammation in my arms from my neck to my fingers and the elbow hurts to bend if I sleep with them straight, yet hurt to straighten if I sleep bent. Whenever I have my arms raised above my head I get pins and needles all the way down to my hands (pattern is stronger in index finger so seems like median nerve). Could it be that my wrist is dislocating and I’m not aware? Very unstable wrists. I noticed recently that parts of my hand subluxate and I wasn’t aware they were subluxations. Anyway, how did you work out which nerve was compressed? Could it be TOS?
Edit: diagnosed with TOS today so I have my answer. She did say the elbow pain is likely worse than it might be with just TOS due to constant subluxations and my carrying angle.
Hello I was diagnosed with gastroparesis last year via GES from January to my diagnosis I’ve lost over 15 pounds. September to November I got worse unable to eat without vomiting I became very dehydrated and had my first central line placed in November this time I was 105 in august I was 108 I started off 127. In December I had my port placed and finally got a nutritionist after losing 5 more pounds. A week after my nutritionist I’ve lost two more pounds and was placed on tpn. The lowest I’ve been now is 96. I’ve asked for a CT angio to check for compression syndromes because my cause of gastroparesis is unknown. My doctor refuses to give me one claiming that I’m not in enough pain . I can hardly eat by mouth. I vomit immediately and get this pain in my upper stomach. How can I demand proper testing I keep getting looked over.
I have had bad knee pain when my l5s1 nerve compression flares up. I've never met anyone else with similar issue I always wondered if Im just tripping
My doc said it's probably related from weak muscles but it almost feels like direct nerve pain on days my sciatica is bad like today
Just curious if anyone like me has same lingering issue
Does anyone in this community have vascular compression syndromes such as May Thurner, Nutcracker, MALS, SMAS, or pelvic congestion syndrome? If so, what are your symptoms like and have you had treatment?
35 yo white male. Dx/ persistent depressive disorder, GAD, ADHD. Rx: Lexapro 20 mg 1x/daily, Adderall XR 10 mg 1x/daily, meloxicam 1x/daily 30 days, Cyclobenzaprine PRN. No surgeries, hospitalizations, or injuries in the last 10 years.
Prior to spring 2019, I exercised 3-5 times per week, usually weight lifting and low impact cardio exercise. I’ve always avoided cycling because that motion causes an uncomfortable sensation of something rolling over and popping on my hip joints (more the right than the left). My job involved (and still involves) a lot of sitting. In spring 2019 I started to notice a dull, aching pain in my hip joints, made worse by prolonged sitting. I moved to a new city and new job, and noticed the hip pain and discomfort worsening over the next few months.
I began to notice more lower back pain, discomfort in my right hip and leg when lying down, and a really bothersome issue: the area between my testicles and anus felt tense, like an overworked muscle, and my penis (especially along the underside, frenulum, and glans) felt significantly more sensitive than normal. Not painful, just more sensitive; if 0 is normal sensation, -10 is complete numbness, and +10 is unbearably heightened sensitivity, I was sitting at about a +6. This made sexual activity uncomfortable at times, as pleasurable sensations were almost uncomfortable, and my orgasm control was nearly gone.
Over the course of the following year, I began to notice first a dull ache radiating up the back of my right leg, from my calf to my buttock. This worsened over time, to the point that I’d experience tingling and numbness along the back of my right leg, made worse by prolonged sitting or walking. Still experiencing the heightened sensitivity in my pelvic area and genitals (although this has improved overall, and comes and goes), and still the tight, dull painful feeling in my hips. I also feel a dull achy pain in the arch of my right foot.
I saw a chiropractor for two months with little improvement. I then saw an orthopedist who ordered X-rays and MRIs of my hips; no abnormal results. I saw an electrophysiologist who said he was “99% sure” I have piriformis syndrome.
Since then, the only thing I have found that improves the pain and discomfort in my hips, pelvis, genitals, and leg is deep tissue massage of my right leg.
Any ideas on what this all is? How to treat it?
I’ve had severe sciatic symptoms for 8 months now to the point where standing up for over 30 minutes or so is a challenge. I’ve just had my mri results back and they’ve shown no disc bulge, no nerve canal narrowing, or nerve root compression, only mild disc desiccation at L1/L2 but that’s it. So what else could be causing my sciatica? My specialist has turned me away after viewing these results and my physio has told me that it’s basically all in my head…..
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I love solo anal play with butt plugs, and my favorite position is usually straddling a chair, facing the back of it, while riding the plug. However, I've found that sometimes this position causes some sort of pressure that causes a nerve in my left thigh to get pinched, and it is painful and keeps me from going very long in this position. It's only ever in my left thigh, which is odd because my position is more-or-less symmetrical. I seem to have this nerve pain whether I wrap my legs around the front of the chair, or keep them at my side, i.e. my lower leg position doesn't seem to be causing it, it seems to be due to compression of my thigh or butt on the top of the chair. The pain is in my thigh, on the underside/backside, and close to the middle of it.
I haven't found any other position that is both as enjoyable and otherwise comfortable, and that also avoids this pain. The pain doesn't show up immediately, but it often causes me to stop or change positions before I would otherwise like to.
Perhaps a different position could improve things? I'm not quite sure how to mix things up though in a way that would get me as much stimulation. I also am wondering if perhaps any exercises could help me to strengthen muscles around the area that was getting pinched. Perhaps if I were more muscular in that area, it would prevent the compression. Perhaps a different chair could be better? I don't really know how to approach this and I would be grateful for any ideas anyone can offer!
My symptoms started from a strong perineum and rectal pressure and pain. I have constipation and urinary retention, very mild leg cramping and sciatica along with some ed and orgasmless ejaculation. Just asking Regards
Doctors have done a cervical x-ray and cervical and brain MRI; if there was atlas misalignment, would that have been picked up by the imaging? Would nerve compression be picked up by either of these two tests?
I've had T for about a year, really ramping up after a fall which leads me to believe it is structural. The MRI showed something in the C6/C7 area. The ENT hasn't correlated anything seen on imaging with the T and I may seek a second opinion.
I am a 27 year old woman from Missouri trying to get treatment for a rare condition called Craniocervical Instability, which is causing cervical medullary syndrome i.e. brainstem compression. I live with intense chronic pain and head pressure, bobble head feeling because my connective tissue is too weak to hold up my head properly, severe fatigue that immobolizes me, muscle twitches and spasms, neurological caused vision issues/persistent visual flashing, tinnitus, digestion issues, jaw pain, nervous system dysfunction that effects my blood flow and heart, and burning nerve pain in my spine and legs. This is all directly caused by my brainstem being compressed.
There are 3 specialists in all of America that can properly diagnose and treat this. I saw one for initial diagnosis via telehealth and it took 6 months to wait for consult, but I will have to fly to New York in person to see him for further procedures. We will need money for travel, lodging, and down payments for medical procedures. It is my choice whether or not to proceed with fusion surgery where my skull to c-2 would be fused in place. He also mentioned an alternative of trying stem cell treatments in Colorado to buff up my faulty connective tissue and help heal the capsule ligaments in my craniocervical junction/neck in a much less invasive way. I would prefer to try this first, but it is a $7k dollar treatment all paid up front and insurance does not cover it.
I have amassed over 15k in medical debt in just 2 years seeing over 30 doctors ruling out other issues and getting diagnostic testing. I have other conditions/comorbidities that go with craniocervial instability as well I see specialists for. Sharing this or donating would mean the absolute world to me. What I want most in my life is to hold my head up without excruciating pain, to be able to get out of bed and live life like other people my age, to see clearly again, to eat without hurting, to marry my partner some day and travel together. I would be happy just getting any improvement in my quality of life at all. My gofundme link is below with many more details about my conditions and with my medical assessment and imaging/proof of a recent bill. Thank you for reading my story ❤
I've seen two orthopedics for this, one has recommended a botox injection, and one has recommended a steroid injection, for pain relief and/ or a diagnostic. Does anyone know what the difference might be between a botox injection and a steroid injection, I forgot to ask. Thank you.
