A pain down my arm

One of the strangest things about my frozen shoulder is that way that it seems difficult to work out where the pain is.

One minute it seems to be in my shoulder, the next its cold and around my elbow and then there's just the weirdest kind of feeling in my hand. This hand pain is very strange sometimes. I just can't really put into words what it feels like. One minute it's cold, the next hot. One minute crampy feeling and then just dull.

I think this must be what they call referred pain in the arm - a pain where the brain gets mixed up about where the pain is coming from. That's appropriate for me - my brain gets mixed up about all kinds of things all the time so there's no reason pain should be an exception :-)

I've discovered that if I rest my arm I can keep the pain levels low. If I feel tired then the pain seems to spread down to the elbow and any sudden movement brings me up short with a horrible cold pain all the way down to my hand. This last pain is enough to bring tears to my eyes at times - it really does stop me in my tracks. I hate it.

Each day I wake up and hope for some improvement. Some days I think I've found it and then it's back to the start again an hour later. It's hard to keep my spirits up but I'm coping ... for the moment.

K