Am I alone on this?

[Guest guest]

Greetings,

I was wondering if by any chance any one may have heard of this. I went to see

the pain doctor on Thursday and I told them about the " skin pain " I get. Now I

think I have said that the doctors still do not know if I have fibro or RA I am

still waiting to hear on test results. I told the pain doctor about my pinky.

About a week ago I had some pretty nasty pains in my right hand. I took a pain

pill and eventually my pinky ended up " relaxing " .

Now when it does it crosses under my ring finger. I have to force it to stay in

place. I also have this feeling in my skin like a serious irritation. The pain

can get to the extreme of my not wanting to put on clothes or lie under a

blanket because it hurts so much.

My PCP said it was just an extension of the pain in my joints but the pain

doctor said something else. This is the bit that has me confused. She mentioned

some word that I cannot recall to save my life. She told me that my brain has

been putting up with so much pain that it has just given up. It is now just

sending out pain signals all over my body. It does not matter if there is

actually a reason for it. So I guess its " phantom pains " ..I think anyway. She

was not really clear about it. I am not sure if it is phantom pains or really a

problem.

My mother in law told me that she experiences pain like this and that it is

normal for her with her arthritis. I am all sorts of confused by all of this.

Has any one else ever felt it?

The best way I can describe it is it feels almost like the flu. I don't have the

fever or any of the other stuff that goes along with having a flu just the

extreme body aches. Has any one else experienced this?

Nash