Please help me someone!!!

[Jchi]

I am in the dental field and for two years i have experienced a horrific sensation of burning in my right elbow with sensations of my skin crawling or having prickling sensations in my right arm and into my neck with swelling in the arm. Doctors have no clue thus far. MRI and EMG show nada! I'm at my wits end here. Any clue?

[Dr. Kokil Mathur]

Hi
Welcome to the MedHelp forum!
What you have is probably Scalene Myofascial Pain Syndrome. When scalene muscle is the cause of pain, the pain is referred (either all or a combination of) to chest, inner lining of scapula (shoulder bone), shoulder, posterior and lateral sides of the arm right up to the thumb and index finger. When this muscle shortens, this can press on brachial plexus (bundle of nerves and blood vessels in the armpit) and the subclavian artery and can compress or irritate these structures and cause symptoms such as abnormal sensation (like crawling and pricking), cold extremity, spasms of pain, and lymphedema (swelling of lymph channels causing swelling of arm) in the involved extremity. In your case it could be also be due to TMJ. Hence a dental checkup to look for causes of TMJ should be done.
Other than this it can be inflammation of veins or phlebitis, inflammation of lymph channels or lymphangitis, deep vein thrombosis or compartment syndrome.
Do discuss this with your doctor and get yourself examined. Take care!

[ksmith88]

Did they check for a pinched nerve?