i’ve been having elbow pain for the last two years, possibly from me working at the shipping department at sears, and having two heavy objects fall on me, and me trying to lift them up myself. i have had several xrays, three MRIs, one with nuclear medicine, a few physical therapies, and one cortisone injection, and the doctors can’t figure out whats wrong with it. nothing comes up on the MRIs or xrays. the pain comes and goes, and sometimes it feels like it expands all throughout my elbow, but it does not radiate anywhere, its a centralized pain. i’m thinking it might be tendinitis, but i’m not sure. the doctors have ruled out tennis elbow, because my pain doesn’t radiate to my hand. does anyone else have this condition or maybe know something about it? thanks in advance.

-joe

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Hi in December last year I injured both my arms I went to doctors and he said it’s tennis elbow.. I been to rehab to try and fix it but nothing worked and the day before yesterday I went and got Chinese accupressure massage now it hurts ALL the time i can’t wear anything that puts any kinda pressure on my arms what can I do??

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my arm has been hurting for almost 7 months… When it first started hurting I went to a doctor and they said i had tendonitis. But my arm didn’t stop hurting. IN febuary I went to a diffrent doctor who thought i should go to physical therapy, so i went to physical therapy and the therapist said i had tennis elbow, and he treated me and said it should start feeling better and it did for a few weeks but now it hurts more than ever!! I am tired of it hurting it hurts to write, and play my tuba. There are times when i am almost brought to tears because it hurts so bad. I would go to the doctor agian but i have kind of lost faith in them. Even though i have only gone to two doctors and physical therapist, but as a teenage girl that seems like a lot. please and info would help.
please please help. i am a highschooler with finals coming up. I can answer essay questions when it hurts so much to just hold a pencil. I also have a band final and i can barely play my tuba… Help me. please
so during physical therapy he had to loosen the muscle and i learned how to do that to but it doesn’t help anymore. I am not sure how to describe my pain but it hurts alot. and every once in a while it feels like stabbing going up and down my arm into my hand and up to my shoulder. It exspecialy hurt when i move my fingers. i am right handed and it is my right arm i need it to stop hurrting!!!

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ok i have like 8 warts on my elbow…i have bein to the doctors and they zapped them like 30 times but they wont go away. i really want them to go away between thursday night to sunday morning…please help its almost summer and theyre disgustinggg……please no negative comments i am very sensitive about that

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I went to my doctors and in a nutshell he said "it’s nothing – go away and cope – it will get better" he gave me NO tablets or nothing.

I have put heat on it, muscular rubs but nothing seems too help. I have had the pain for 3 weeks now and it’s no better.
I can’t lift, carry or hold anything.
What is this pain and what can I do to stop the pain?

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I’ve had a cortizone shot, therapy, X-rays. Nothing shows up on the X-rays, I’ve spent so much money going to the doctor, and for pain meds that don’t work, now they wan’t hundreds more for an MRI. I have days where I can’t even squeeze the toothpaste tube or hold my coffee cup without agony. In fact, I can’t do the slightest things with my right arm. Someone HELP please, because my doctors sure aren’t helping me at all!"

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This summer my mom started feeling pain in her right elbow. Later her whole arm would hurt so the doctor said it was probably Tendinitis so she gave her a few exercises to do. Now her joints in her wrist, knees, ankles and toes sometimes hurt. Doctors still don’t know what it could be. Any ideas??

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I know this is something I should be going to the doctors about, which is why I am going to the walk in tomorrow. But anyways, Saturday I woke up and my hands and feet were swollen, I had to pry my rings off and my sandals wouldn’t fit my feet were so swollen. Through Saturday my feet were swollen and began to hurt. By the end of the day all my joints were sore my wrists, fingers, elbows, hips, knees, ankles and toes. Everything feels like they have been over worked. My feet hurt like I have been standing on them all day and walking all day. I can’t make a fist without a tight feeling. All my muscles feels sore and over worked. Keep in mind I’m 20 and have a job where I am moving a lot (but not to a point where I have ever hurt in 3 years). My family and friends say its either rheumatoid arthritis or from not drinking enough water and my body retaining water – thus the swelling. I dunno, it just gets in the way because everything hurts….doing anything is uncomfortable. Last week I did get a TB shot and don’t know if that’s some sort of side effect?

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It’s hurts a little when I move my elbow, but not much. But it hurts bad when I pull, push, or lift something. My elbow feels better when it’s bent than when its straight. What can I do to make it feel better? I won’t have to money to go to the doctor until next week. Is this something that needs a doctors visit, or is it something that will go away on its own?

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have a sore throwing elbow it kind of hurts where most baseball players get tommy john i went to the doctors he said it was fine but i don’t think so. the pain is not unberable its just enough to be an annoiance

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Okies,I asked a q like this before,but my problem is getting a bit more serious @ this stage. My right elbow is SERIOUSLY swollen for the past 2/3 months,and nobody seeme to know whats wrong with it!!=( I’ve gone to a really good orthapedic doc,and he said it was prob bruising or bleeding,and put me ina sling and prescribed anti-inflamatories. So that was grand and we went off,thinking my arm would be as-good-as-new. We made an appt. to see him again after 2 weeks,but my arm was not any bit better. He took x-rays,but they showed no fracture. This was really annoying,because the doc just laughed because he was hiding the fact that he was confused. He said to come bac to him in a few months if I wasn’t getting better. During these months,I was in another hospital,and another doc saw me and he took more x-rays and,again,it showed no fracture. He put it down to tennis elbow,and gave me steroid injections. He said that I’d be better in a few weeks with using the anti-inflamatory gel we have
but the swelling has NOT gone down any bit. I started going to physio,and she doesn’t have a clue whats going on either,but she feels there is something seriously wrong with it. I really don’t know what to do now,and I am in soooo much pain,and the pain is even worse when you don’t know whats wrong with you. We are making an appt with the original doc,but I have a feeling he will say rest,and anti-inflammatories and painkillers(which don’t work anymore)
but I HAVE rested,and done everything I can,but nothings helping!! I really wanna get it sorted,so do you people have any suggestions?? I really need help,its been going on for the past 2-3 months,and I wanna get rid of the pain!!
Please help me,any answers would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
I doubt its an infection,because I’m not felling more unwell than usual lol,and its not red or anything,but it is radiating heat..???
And ‘singlegal’,thanks,and I have arthritis too,I’m 15. But I will keep trying,and doctors have dismissed me alot too,even in other things,like my ACL,its torn and they said it was something completley different! Thanks a mill.
‘indiarulz’…I would if I could but I can’t. Sori! But I shall describe it: the bone running along the top of the arm(radius?) is 1-3inches more up than on my other arm,and because of this,it looks like it is bent. The bone on the back of my elbow seems quite swollen also…did that help?? oh,and instead of the lower bone in my arm sticking down a bit,it is sticking up into my arm,like its kinda disappeared…

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Hey. I just noticed that my elbow hurt yesterday but i’m not sure if its tennis elbow… A couple of weeks ago, i went to the doctors and i checked up on my elbow that had a popping noise when i pull my arm back, and pulled it the opposite direction. He said my tendon thingy or something was loose and if it bothered me, i had to get surgery.

Here’s the problem, I’m not sure if its tennis elbow or the tendon thing but it hurts whenever i do easy stuff, like open my refrigerator door. I iced it but i’m not exactly sure where to ice my elbow… so i iced it near my tendon, then on the center of my elbow. can someone help me? …i dont want surgery on my tennis arm during the season…

Additional info… lets see… I’m a 14 asian boy, 5′ 2 and a half, like 92 lbs, i play tennis. I also write with my left hand but i am right handed in almost everything except for eating.

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I am curious and would like others opinions.
I have been dealing with throbbing pain since a accident when a very early teen. Over 20 years now.
I had yet another accident within the last 3-4 years. Causing another host of painful outcomes.
Anyhoo I have been talking with others who do not understand that I do not take so many pain killers as to be "out of it". These people do not understand. The group of peeps (it is a medication group) seam to think one should not feel any pain what so ever at anytime!
I am curious how many people think it is OK to feel….pain. I mean when it gets real bad I do take something. I am deathly afraid of being (or getting) addicted to pain killers!! I have kids that need me. I see how other people are and do not want to be this way.
At the moment if I went to the doctors for my arms (tennis elbow? I have RA) I would have to have very painful injections with needle.
My motto Pain is just a way to no you are alive…..

What is your opinion?
I thought I would add I do have a seizure disorder which makes some pain killers off limits to me.
RA is rheumatoid arthritis, some mornings I can not walk, move.

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been to doctors tablets cause side effects, dont fancy injections thanks
medication is normulen comprimidos,
side effects dry mouth teeth aching,
tiredness,

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I have what the doctors have described as ‘tennis elbow‘ in my right arm. I have had this pain for years now and a cortosone injection didn’t help. Now i have the same pain in my left elbow. It hurts when i bend my arms and if i lift/carry anything heavy. There is also a feeling of burning needles being dug into the elbow point on occasions. Is there any remedy to ease the pain or what else is there to have done? Anybody had this, would like your experiences. I feel like a 80 year old woman, and im only 40!

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Im pretty sure i dislocated my elbow. I cant fully stretch it out or bend it. My wrist hurts a little but besides that nothing else hurts.

- Can it fully heal with home treatment? How long would this take?
- If the doctors put it back, how would they do it and how painful?

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I had dislocated my left elbow. After one week of removal of cast, I started having hardness on the nails of little and ring fingers of my left hand. Same was observed on the portion of palm below these two fingers. On these two fingers, there was a feeling of fluffiness. I have shown to various doctors. Every one has advised for vitamin medicines but none is sure, if it’s fully recoverable . Has any one faced such kind of problem ? If yes, then what treatment was taken for full cure ? Kindly help me. THANKS.

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after ten years with aspl tree i was fired for lack of production. i was told after many weeks of harrasment that i was costing them to much money i was [wrote up for doing good job just not enouph of it] i pruduced more than any one when i said i needed to file claim, they turned up the heat on me and when i didn’t quit my general foreman said costing them to much money after insulting my inteligents said follow back to parking spot where he said someone else wold be operating my truck the next day and see how that works when i called supervisor next day said that i was fired.i had been to doctors three times for pain in elbow and now tharapy and they also cancelled insurance week before fired. some comments harrasment [have i ever done this before] been doing all my life. i am costing them to much money] after filing claim i am guessing lost safety bonus? never filed claim they fired before could or make that call. ten years with company fired? for?

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you know when you hit your "funny bone" and it kills… why does it hurt more than so many other parts of the body? I don’t think my knee hurts that much when I hit it, but then maybe I just don’t hit it as much — any med students/doctors out there care to take a stab at this?

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For 5 weeks now I have had severe joint and body pain mainly in my hands, elbows, shoulders, back of my knees sometimes my hips and bottom of feet and toes. Every morning I wake up with a very sore and swollen throat and lymph nodes hurt and are swollen. I’m extremely tired I can hardly function some days. I have had all sorts of blood tests and they all came back normal except the ebstein barr virus test was a bit high but the doctors told me to not worry about that. I saw a rheumatologist he says 50% chance i have rheumatoid arthritis. I don’t wanna believe that or find it hard to believe because of the sore throat and extreme tiredness to and the swollen lymph nodes in my neck. I’m so fed up the doctor aren’t helping, they have me on prednisone a steroid and it only works a couple hours a day then i’m in chronic pain again. I’m a single mom with two boys and I can hardly take care of them or even dress myself or take care of me. I’m so desperate to find out what is wrong with me. Can anyone help. What do you think it could be. I’m taking all sorts of vitamins nothing helps. HELP PLEASE!
I’ve had no fever. Just the symptoms listed.

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I see these questions all the time and I realize that there is no way an internet audience can accurately say whether or not your bones are fractured. But I am just looking for opinions on whether I should wait it out a little longer, or just suck it up and get an x-ray. I really hate having to wait for hours at the doctors though to just have them say that its a sprain and I need to ice it.

Anyway, on to the problem. We have this evil cable cord lying on the ground that I have been bugging everyone in the house to help me figure out how to get it out of the way, well yesterday (it was still laying there evilly) and I tripped over it and fell forward. I put my hands out (instinctively, and obviously since that is the natural reaction) and my left elbow made this loud popping sound and I doubled over in pain. Well today I have no swelling, and both elbows are sore but my right elbow is not even a concern since its not even comparing to my left elbow. It hurts right where the radial head attaches to the elbow joints if you touch it, and when I straighten or bend my arms it is also painful. But here’s the deal, it is very painful but its nothing compared to the pain I felt when I broke my arm so I am wondering if its just a torn ligament or a fractured radial head. Like I said, there is no swelling, but on the opposite side of my elbow there is a very small bruise there. I have no deformities. Do radial fractures generally hurt really bad? If they do, then I am not concerned.

Also, if it turns out to be a radial head fracture what do they do? Do they just splint it? If that’s the case I already have a sling I can use, so I would rather save my insurance for something more important then just wasting my entire Saturday to have them tell me to sling it and ice it.

Sorry for the super long, boring question! ^_^ Any comments would be greatly appreciated though.

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I have seen my personal physician, a hand surgeon, a chiropractor, and a rheumatologist for this, and none of them can figure out what is wrong with me. I have been tested twice for Lyme, lupus, and arthritis, and all three have come back negative both times. I’m a 22 year old female with no history of severe injury or health problems.

Several months ago the joints on the left side of my body suddenly started to hurt. Most affected were my left wrist and knee, both of which have been injured in the past – tendonitis in my wrist two years ago, mild knee injury six months ago, but neither had given me problems till then. Also affected were my shoulder, elbow, knuckles, and ankle. The pain comes and goes in waves. Exercise and movement seem to make it worse, though staying still does not make it better. It gets worse all the time despite my taking a prescription anti inflammatory every day. The doctors have given me no painkillers. (Out of room for question, will add more details.)
It is severe to the point where I get very little sleep anymore, and have little appetite. I’ve lost five pounds in the last three days (I have very fast metabolism, but this is still abnormal for me). It does not hurt all the time, but when it does I am unable to focus and generally incapacitated if I am at work (I am a secretary). I have been limping regularly as putting weight on my left leg seems to make it worse. In the last few days my right leg has also started hurting, and the pain has started to spread out from the knees all the way to my feet and groin. My right arm is completely fine so far.

I’ve no idea if it’s relevant, but I do have other chronic health problems. I have mild-moderate asthma, vocal chord dysfunction, chronic dry eye, and acid reflux. I have suffered from a chronic stiff neck accompanied by pain for years, though I’ve always assumed that was caused by stress.

If anyone has any idea what might be causing this pain, please tell me. Thank you.
Appropriately enough, I have forgotten to mention a few other symptoms that I have been experiencing: short-term memory loss, difficulty concentrating, and confusion/disorientation, as well as muscle spasms and occasional pins-and-needles tingling in my fingertips. I’ve no idea if all of this is related or perhaps just due to sleep deprivation. The rheumatologist also mentioned to me that my blood tests showed that there is no inflammation.

The rheumatologist suggested that my pain is caused by tendinitis, though he gave no explanation as to how I would suddenly develop tendinitis all over my body without having engaged in any notable physical activity. There is no swelling or other outward physical symptoms, and my family has been very unsupporting, implying that I may be faking this for attention – this is incredibly difficult to deal with and I’m desperate to find a solution. I appreciate the suggestions so far, thanks very much to all who can help.

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I’m 23 year old. One month ago I started having joint pain without swelling (knee, wrist, elbow, ankle) after waking up in the morning. It’s so hard for me to wake up and I feel like I’ve never slept at all. Then my body is weak and tired for the whole day. I’ve checked my blood (Calcicum, ASLO, RF, TSH, T4, VSS, GGT), urine and taken X-ray of all my joints. The results are all good. I’ve tried to rest and exercise regularly but I still could not recover. All the doctors I have visited told me that my symptoms are caused by stress. Is it true ? I don’t think my life is too stressful to make me sick like that. Pls help me. I feel so bad because I could not start my work due to my weakness.

I give you my historical heaIth. I’ve had rheumatis fever when I was 13 year old. I’ve taken penicillin one table per day until now. 3 years ago I’ve cut my tonsil because it caused me sore throat all the time. After this operation, my sore throat is not too serious but I still have everyday.

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