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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by twisted wrist[/i] [br]I have been playing guitar for 8 years. 1.5 weeks ago I woke up one morning and my left hand was weak and the tendons on the inside of my forearm were swollen and aching. I thought, well maybe I just played too much yesterday. It'll be better in a day or two. But what was strange is that I had never had any discomfort from playing before, including the previous day. I stopped playing guitar and generally stopped using my left hand for much of anything. I went to see a doctor and she said she thought it was a forearm strain and some tendonitis. She said to rest it and take NSAIDS. I did that, but it was just getting progressively worse. I had read stories of musicians needing to give up their instrument because of tendonitis and I was getting extremely worried and frustrated. Then yesterday the pain and weakness was getting REALLY bad. My hand and arm started tingling. Then the pain started spreading up my arm. to my elbow, upper arm, and eventually my shoulder. Now this didn't make ANY sense at all because I KNEW I hadn't injured my shoulder. It was at this point that I recalled my friend telling me about TMS. He said that he gets it with back pain. I dismissed him at first...not that I didn't believe him that he got back pain due to psychological reason, but that I didn't think it applied to my situation. I have a lot of stressful things happening in my life these days (just moved to a new town, sleeping on a couch, looking for a place to live, unemployed and looking for work, starting to play music out and in a band for the first time, dating for the first time in years), but I hadn't considered that the stress was too much to handle. Apparently my mind did and it decided to mimic tendonitis in my wrist as a distraction from all the stress in my life. So in an instant I decided "**** this, there is no way that this injury is real!" I took my right hand and started massaging my left arm and hand vigorously. I started stretching my left hand and fingers and wrist and arm every which way. It was uncomfortable at first but quickly it started to feel GOOD! Like my arm was telling me "yes! yes! keep going!" I could feel the life flowing back into my arm and hand and within 10 minutes I had full function again and NO PAIN...well a little bit of ache but it was more along the lines of using muscles that I hadn't used in 1.5 weeks. It was a good ache. I played guitar at an open mic that evening with no difficulties. I have a physical therapy appointment set up for today. I am going to go anyway in order to get a massage and some exercises to maybe strengthen my left forearm. I hope they don't think I'm crazy, but honestly, who care!? My arm is better and I am so happy! I've read other people's stories of suffering for years and years and I feel so grateful to have figured this out in such a short period of time. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.