Post edited by: ilvmikds00, at: 09/24/2007 07:24

one possibility is you also have Chronic Myofascial Pain as well as FMS Chronic Myofascial Pain is a common comorbidity with FMS. unless the conversant with chronic myofacial pain most doctors have a hard time telling you why your hands hurt. In my own personal experience, they did numerous nerve conduction tests than shrugged their shoulders and sent me to physical therapy.

my advice to you as to all new people here is to get a copy of The Fibromyalgia Advocate

By Delvin Starlaynel MD. Just go to amazon & search on Fibromyalfgia - it's the big purple book. She also wrote a "Survival Guide" (the big green book) - you can start with either or both. You really, rally, need to get & read these books.

as usual, I offer to buy you a copy if you, like many others, are in reduced circumstances because of your FMS.

Honey45

I was told by my old pain Doc (before I moved away) that the outside half of our ring fingers and pinkie fingers are controlled by one nerve and the other half of the ring finger and all of the others are controlled by another nerve. If you really pay attention when you're having the numbness in just the two fingers, you will see that it's really only HALF of your ring finger that is numb. (and it does feel really odd)! My understanding was that swelling in our wrists (and/or tunnel) is what causes the NUMBNESS. (where the nerves go through the 'tunnel' in our wrists). It makes total sense to me...but I really never looked into it. Due to the fact that there's nothing that can be done about it (to MY understanding)...I just deal with it and try not to put my arms and hands in the positions that I know are going to cause them to go numb.

As for the pain...I was DX as having RA as well as FMS, CFS and CMP, so I have to figure that between all of those, one of them is the cause of the hand/finger pain.

I do understand what you're going through and I know it is no fun and what I just wrote didn't help you one bit! But, maybe knowing that others with FMS suffer with it as well, it might just make you feel a little bit better!!

Hope you're having a pain free day!

{{{{Fibro Hugs}}}}

~Suzee~

~Suzee~

HTH,

Amanda

P.S. The third day of rain here.

Post edited by: ilvmikds00, at: 09/26/2007 07:53