Yeah, I'll tell my doctor about it and ask for an electromyogram, conductivity test of a nerve and then if that indicates something, I'll have it faxed to my neuro (faxes are used all the time still here. Very rare for a doctor to have an email address for patients even.
What scares me is that something as simple as arm pain when waking up can be construed as a sign of lung cancer. Thankfully I have a boatload of benzos, I do have real pain issues that if I had not been abandoned by my specialist (maxilofacial (jaw) and the area around Surgeon Dentists) who said after looking at an x-ray, the way your nerves in that area are already painful (yeah TN type II on the same side of the TMJ disorder), I will not do surgery on you, gave me a round-the-clock 150mg codeinecontin every 12 hour (later raised to the 200mg ones, strongest), a Percodan or two if pain came through. He was old school and old, to script Percodans heh, anyway, he retired without telling me, and that was 3 years of going to walk-in doctors with all my proof in a dossier who would refuse to look at it, the ER took me more seriously but I was told soon, the ER can sometimes help for chronic problems, but we are here for acute needs of seeing a doctor, so don't be surprised to be placed on priority 4 or 5 (1,2 is directly bringing you behind and no waiting time, 3 can be immediate exams and then being told to go to the waiting room). So the obvious pharm guy I was looking for showed up in 2010 and 2010-2012 was the time I became a chipper (of general opiates), I'll never forget how lucky I was when my friend who moved way way up north to work in the wood industry, when he came back to the closest thing resembling a town over there, a town of 20k people, he told me cryptically, man you gotta come over, Narco (his real name is Marco but..he really earns that nickname) has went to get his script himself. I immediately understood, and the crazy amount of opiates of all kinds (except the HMContins, Dilaudid and Oxycontins, those he kept for himself, whatever, there was still a shitload of Oxy IR 20's, MS-Contins 60 (a real huge boatload), M-Eslons 30, Talwin 50, Adderall XR 25mg, I had never seen Adderall in Canada, its straight to Dexedrine normally if MPH doesn't do it or causes dangerous things like seizures (like me, so all those rc MPH analogues can go fuck themselves) and Cesamet (Nabilone) 1mg pills, Methadone 10 and 25mg,the ones for pain and almost penny-worth CodeineContins 100's and some MS IR 30's, which I thankfully hand the correct filters for...and then after that, I succeeded in staying a chipper, did not get opiate sick, which often happens the first times, you think you can handle it fine, especially with a naturally high tolerance.
In the meantime, the ORT clinic has made myself a nice dossier to be transferred to the pain clinic once I am done with the bupe, which is more difficult than methadone to me, because with methadone, all I had to do was drop 2-3mg per monthly visit, and just when I got out of that semi-retarded non-euphoric methazone, under 40mg, they wanted me to switch to Suboxone at 39mg, they said 48 hours without any and I should be fine in my 2 short inpatient induction mornings in a row. And I was, even if the literature says 30.
But I am a bit of a hypochondriac, which was boosted by the bad side effects methadone gave me (gained 110 pounds in 11 months, messed with my teststerone levels), Suboxone still messes with my testosterone, less so, so I'm back on Delatestryl injections once a week, much smaller dose than when I got a bloodwork done while on methadone feeling completely out of energy and..yeah, my T levels were incredibly low, almost dangerously low, which is a rare thing. The thing I was not told is that rising T levels raises oestrogen levels too, and I had to take a few anti-oestrogen pills, 1 for a year, but it always gave me a tightening feeling in the chest, apparently nothing to worry about but very very annoying. The other was the also anti-cancer agent Tamoxifen which is used for breast cancer is my understanding, had the same kind of chest issues.
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Thanks for you answer, and yeah, I'm not a doctor but being able to cause electrical feelings down to my pinkie and ring finger from rolling around a fist under my armpit until I caught a nerve that I felt go through the whole of my arms. It's shitty because I got symptoms in both arms. You know how girls have crooked arms at the elbow sometimes, it's not considered anything abnormal, it can happen to guys too. Well I was born this way, didn't prevent me from being one hell of a second basement. But yeah, when doing exercises I saw to help the cubital nerve after looking up what was going on with me, there were 3 exercises, I did twice in the day, and I had a nap this afternoon and did not wake up with any pain in the elbow. One particular exercise of extending your arm straight in front of you and making a fist, really hurt down the arm and hand. But apparently, if you keep doing those everyday you'll help yourself, which is always a good thing to do and doctors often have this prejudice that if you didn't try anything before showing up, that you're uneducated blah blah, not my GP, not my previous one, but the one I had before, quack quack quack. Prescribing me ritalin 20mg a day and trazodone for sleep. I got home, checked out the internets (it was summer of 2001, when life was normal still, and the internet had a lot of easier to find information. Trazodone incrases MPH toxicity. No wonder i got seizures and was bumped to Dexedrine instead.
