Sliver-like sensation in hands...?

[MathewLongman88]

Over the last year, I've been having a lot of muscle ache and joint pain. My labs (which have been numerous, extremely extensive rheumatological workups) are all normal but the pain is still there. In the last two months, however, I've started having these strange pains in my hands. Small areas of my hands and fingers start to feel as though I've rubbed my hand against the grain of a piece of wood and have tons of tiny little slivers. It doesn't really swell up that much and doesn't change color, like a broken blood vessel, but lasts for a couple of days and then dissipates.

What in the world could this be? Combined with the muscle pains and joint pains, does this symptom suggest anything specifically?

[karajo]

I thought of something.  Low B-12 can cause tingling and muscle symptoms.  Your dr. could try letting you take B-12 shots.  That is the best was our bodies absorbs B-12.
~Kara

[karajo]

Sorry it has taken me so long to respond back.  Been busy and tired.  

If you are also having fatigue, fibromyalgi and chronic fatigue can cause tingling in hands and feet as well asan assortment of other symptoms.  

MedHelp has a symptom checker...It is at the botteom right *scroll down.  Put in one symptom and it will let you build on that symptom.  Lymes disease is another "hard to dx" disorders.  

Are you having muscle pain and or weakness, dizziness?  Please list any other symptoms you are having.

~Kara

[MathewLongman88]

My doctor doesn't seem to think it's MS, as a result of the pain in my joints and the fact that they seem more closely associated to an inflammatory condition. That said, I've had an ESR of 1 for the last seven months. Also, I've had three negative ANAs. But I have developed a tremor, over the last month, and have transient pains in my hands that are similar to when you catch a baseball barehanded.

Also, yesterday, I had a situation where I tweaked my groin and could barely walk. Two months ago, I took off my jeans and tweaked it and before that, I went for a walk and hurt my hip. The thing is, I was a high level athlete, in the years leading up to the symptoms starting, in both hockey and boxing, and have never tweaked either my groin or hip once. But it's happened four times in the last few months.

Is there any condition that is known to cause such a symptom?

[karajo]

Hi Mathew,

I'm not real familiar with the symptoms of MS, but it might be you need to see a neurologist.  

The sliver feeling...could it be neuropathy?

I know that goes along with various conditions:
lupus, MS, fibormyalgia, CFS (?)
These are conditions that the joint/muscle pain could also be associated with.  

Have they checked you ANA?