When you are in a flare up

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Permalink Reply by D McGinnis on February 7, 2012 at 6:52pm

Severe breakout pains, flare ups etc, eventually affect my whole body. I get a kind of stiffness in my legs and sometimes, my right arm aches when I have the bad pain periods. Weird, but figure it must me the "other" muscles reacting to the stress that severe pain causes.

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Permalink Reply by Min on February 7, 2012 at 7:32pm

Yeh, D. Just tensing up from the pain. Makes sense to me. Like gripping  a chair.  I remember a time I had extreme pain I was trying to sleep one night, I was sleeping on my side.  I kept tapping my heels together and didn't realize I was doing it until my husband called my name out. Whew, that was a rough night!!

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Permalink Reply by cris on February 7, 2012 at 8:14pm

yes...I have pains in my back along my spine area and I just feel 'yuk' all over!  I usually don't realize how bad I felt until I start to come out of the 'flare up'; sooo very thankful it is over when it is over!  Stress usually brings on the worse moments...

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Permalink Reply by jacksharky on February 10, 2012 at 7:26am

When my face flares up my shoulder and arm on that side can be almost ridged with pain.Even though it is not in pain but causes pain when I move it.I've just come back from chiropractor,for a running related injury,or so I thought.He seems to think it is all connected in some way.I have to admit I didn't really understand what he said.Something about neuro pathways and how the brain reads and deals with pain signals.I came away with the impression that basicly you get an injury and even though that injury may not be serious everything around that injury tenses up and the brain reads that as pain.I think!

I know the bill was big.wants me to make 2 appointments for next week!!!! Don't think I can afford to go.But I am in pain.

All a bit complicated.

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Permalink Reply by Lisa on February 12, 2012 at 2:34am

I go to the osteopath fortnightly to control my TN and a lot of it comes from my back apparently as i have had extensive surgery in the past. The only place I have got to compensate is in my neck. She worked on a spot in my upper spine and boy did it set off my TN the twiching happened over my affected side.  I find all the muscles on the side all tense up.

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Permalink Reply by Lupa on February 12, 2012 at 4:13am

I can't say I've personally noticed anything like that...But I do seem to get muscle spasms in my face alot, and I have no idea if THAT is somehow related....Anyone else get those annoying eyebrow/eyelid twitchy things?

I noticed my pain changing though...I seem to get shocky pains on my right side, in the jaw area...I get like singular 'zaps' spaced apart, but when it was really bad (I don't know if there is a technical term for this, I think of it as a cluster) they would come strong and fast, blurring into each other to the point I wasn't able to count them as individual bursts of pain, and when they did that the electrical sort of feeling would last a few minutes, and then settle and it was ok...But I noticed that as time went on, after a cluster attack instead of it settling, for up to half an hour afterwards I would have a burning sensation along my tongue and cheek (like from eating a chili pepper) and a sort of tight, achey feeling in my teeth, particularly my upper jaw even though the pain seems to strike in my lower jaw....

None of this actually answers your question, I'm sorry >./p>

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