Got a really odd pain in my arm. Started about 2 months ago. I’ve had to stop boxing, not because I can’t hit the bag or do any of the gym work, but I can’t do a press up, or if I’m on pads and I put my right arm raised and get hit in the hand it’s excruciating.
It aches at night if my hands above my head and when my arms on the steering wheel when I drive.
It’s really odd because I can ride bike, do my general boxing exercises at home like bag work and skipping and yesterday I knocked out a chimney at home. But now as I type this it’s aching like hell?
What the hell have I done?

What the hell have I done?

Not gone to see a doctor / physio to get a proper diagnosis by the sounds of it.

Fair point! Should have rang a lot earlier, but I thought I’d pulled a muscle and as it takes about 3 weeks to see a doctor I didn’t bother. Idiotic I know.

I’ve weird and wonderful stuff going on with my arm, doc says they so many muscle groups in your arm it not easy to diagnose, physio thinks I’ve nerve damage. Get down the doctors and join the NHS queue

Some sort of RSI? I get it sometimes and I’ve never quite worked out what causes it.

Trapped or swelling around a nerve.

Where abouts does it hurt ??
Is it in/near joints or muscles or the whole arm ???

Not gone to see a doctor / physio to get a proper diagnosis by the sounds of it.

A diagnosis is all well and good but then what ??
Especially as the stock answer is something like

I’ve weird and wonderful stuff going on with my arm, doc says they so many muscle groups in your arm it not easy to diagnose, physio thinks I’ve nerve damage.

So I have once specialist saying I’ve nerve damage … another saying it’s connective tissue… one giving me B12 injections and another prescribing steroids. Of the lot only the B12 seemed to help which then agreed with nerve damage (which I have lot of anyway)

anyway .. I should be getting the B12 once a month… or 4 weeks but went to see Dr’ who then disagreed with specialist and decided I needed to be retested … yes there amy be something with the connective tissue as I have to relocate my shoulder back in the socket 20x a day….

I got as far as the appointment with the nurse for a blood sample and ran back next week… sorry not done yet… week after still not done… after which I just gave up… I don’t really have time

I fractured my radius 2 weeks ago and it doesn’t hurt half as much as my arm does pretty much all the time. Also a waste of time bothering to go to the walk in with my radius… got a sling I could have done myself and appointment with fracture clinic who confirmed the fracture .. but other than that no instructions except “keep it mobile and take some pain meds”

Given it does’ really hurt in comparison to the arm in general pain meds are pointless. If I took pain meds for that level of pain I’d be on them 24×7…

So I’m now wondering why I missed a days work to get an x-ray and be told “yep it’s fractured”
I suppose it could have had displacement and needed straightening but all in all I just feel like I lost a day’s work.

Must be something in the STW water – I was gearing up to start a thread about what the equivalent of sciatica is for your arm – had an achey twinge for the last week or so, through the middle finger>wrist>armpit. Aches and a sense of weakness rather than pain though.

Is it affecting your work? If so, could you get an occupational health and/or physio referral via your employer? Might be quicker than NHS.