Dr Skunkey.com Medical Question

[Smiling JOe]

So, back in the early 1990's I sliced the side of my birdie finger with a serated bread knife while trimming some limbs of a tree. (don't need any comments from the peanut gallery :nono1: -- the lesson was learned) Immediately, I felt a jolt of electricity rush up my arm and into my entire body -- not pleasant. Anywho, I received a few stiches, but when I touched that finger to anything for the next month or so, I received that same electrical jolt . After the cut healed, I still occasionally could touch that finger just right, and the jolt would come again. Over the last few years, I have not been jolted, but on occasion, will get a smaller electrical soreness on that spot of my finger to the tip. Today, while doing my regular workout with weights, I noticed some of that not so pleasant feeling of electrical numbness from that cut to the tip of my finger. I continued my workout, but it seem to be more affected as I continued to lift. It has mellowed out a little bit, but I still have a little feeling of that electrical numbness on that tip of my finger. The cut was at the base of my distal phalanges (if my memory from 9th grade Biology serves me correctly). What do you suppose happend that made this problem reoccur? I don't recall bumping it against anything -- just began to notice it while rubbing my hands together on a set break.

 

[Mango]

Sounds like you hit a nerve. I think they have memory.
Dr. Mango's best educated guess. Take some B Complex and call me in the morning and my bill is in the mail.

 

[Rudyjohn]

Neuroma

 

[Smiling JOe]

Sounds like you hit a nerve. I think they have memory.
Dr. Mango's best educated guess. Take some B Complex and call me in the morning and my bill is in the mail.

About .1 seconds after I cut my finger, I knew that I hit a nerve. ;-) What do you mean that they have memory? Could I have been subconsciously thinking back to when I cut my finger, and that started the whole thing again? Or, could I have possible done something to tear that nerve again today? As I stated, I don't recall hitting it on anything, but I was straining a bit with the weights, but I always do.

 

[Mango]

Is that the same hand you cut a few months ago?

Neuropathy:

The causes of nerve pathology include:

Mechanical from injury, pressure, overworking a part of the body
Vascular (blockage of a vessel or hemorrhage into nerve tissue)
Infectious as in shingles, diptheria, polio, tetanus, or leprosy
Toxic from heavy metals like arsenic, mercury and lead; chemical poisoning from organo-phosphates, drugs or alcohol; vaccination as in Guillain Barr? syndrome
Metabolic from acidosis, vitamin deficiencies, diabetes.


If you have't gone to see a doctor since SJ, you should get your butt in.

 

[Smiling JOe]

Is that the same hand you cut a few months ago?

Neuropathy:

The causes of nerve pathology include:

Mechanical from injury, pressure, overworking a part of the body
Vascular (blockage of a vessel or hemorrhage into nerve tissue)
Infectious as in shingles, diptheria, polio, tetanus, or leprosy
Toxic from heavy metals like arsenic, mercury and lead; chemical poisoning from organo-phosphates, drugs or alcohol; vaccination as in Guillain Barr? syndrome
Metabolic from acidosis, vitamin deficiencies, diabetes.


If you have't gone to see a doctor since SJ, you should get your butt in.

The stab wound was in the arm, not the hand, but yes, the same side. It was bruised for three or four days, but has healed very nicely with only a tiny scar.

Go to the doctor? I thought that is what this thread was -- an online q/a with the doctor.

 

[Mermaid]

Well, look at it this way, SJ. Next time you're with a girl who sets your heart afire, you can look at her soulfully and say with all truth, "There's a certain electricity between us. I feel it."

 

[Beachbummette]

hypersensitivity to a damaged sensory nerve. I will be in town Friday....you can buy me an adult beverage!

 

[Jdarg]

You trimmed a tree with a serrated bread knife??? I gotta get past this part first before I read about any diagnosis.;-)

I know, peanut gallery. But I have been a good girl all day, so I need to let off a little SoWal steam. Plus you are just too easy to tease.

 

[Smiling JOe]

You trimmed a tree with a serrated bread knife??? I gotta get past this part first before I read about any diagnosis.;-)

Well, I was wearing thick leather gloves, but they were no match for that blade. I am just thankful that the knife had to go through the leather before reaching my finger.