upper arms feel like lead weights ?

[suzyt]

hi all every now and again i get this horrible pain in my upper arms & shoulders. it feels like a lead weight hanging between my shoulders & elbows, is this part of the MS saga ?.there 's no pattern to this pain some days there's nothing at all, then out of the blue they really hurt. i keep trying to think about going back to work but i don't have enough good days in a row to think i could go back. one min i feel great( but that never lasts long)then the next thing i suddenly feel crap for no real reason. Iv been off work for 7 months now (thats how long iv had ms, so as i keep saying im a newbie). theres too many other little things to mention but this ones really bugging me.

[angeltess]

Hi Suzy, I'm not diagnosed, but I get a similar feeling in my left arm. It's like when you're a kid, and someone punches you and gives you a dead arm, but it just happens. It used to happen on waking, and the life would gradually return, but now it happens a lot through the day, and I can't do stuff, like fill the kettle or open a tin, or anything really, when it happens. It usually doesn't last long, then the feeling returns.

[suzyt]

Hi Suzy, I'm not diagnosed, but I get a similar feeling in my left arm. It's like when you're a kid, and someone punches you and gives you a dead arm, but it just happens. It used to happen on waking, and the life would gradually return, but now it happens a lot through the day, and I can't do stuff, like fill the kettle or open a tin, or anything really, when it happens. It usually doesn't last long, then the feeling returns.

 

hi mine only lasts for a few hours but when it does its murder. im seeing my nurse soon so will see what she has to say about it, more pain killers or not?

[derby42]

hi suzy. Hope the nurse can help you get some relief. I have the opposite problem. My arm feels a bit light and shakes a bit. Its horrible when things dont feel right isnt it and moseso when you have pain. Im off work too. . Maternity leave (joke that is as i cant look after him) at the mo so at least i dont have to explain to my employer about my recent diagnosis. Hoping ill be ok to return by march but things dont look good right now. Is your employer understanding?

[Scully]

Hello Suzy,

 

I sympathize with this problem. Arms feeling heavy.

Get this quite a lot, the feeling that they are just too heavy, a real effort to try and lift them at all, or to simply shake the duvet, impossible when the arms get this horrid feeling.

 

It's almost ass bad as when the legs do it!

 

Scully

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[suzyt]

hi thankyou all glad to know im not on my own with this one. as for my employer, they've bean great trying all they can to get me back to work. but its looking like i will be finished on ill health grounds soon. but hay ho there has to be other jobs out there that i can do. my old job is far too physical and active for me to return to as i am at the min, but i still hope i will be able to go back.