Over the last year, I have developed an intermittent pain in my left arm, in the muscle above the inner elbow. The attacks are sudden and very painful. The muscle seems to go rigid and the pain feels deep, closer to the bone. It is very focussed but the lasting ache and exhaustion of it affects the arm to the armpit and my entire arm is weak with fatigue when the episode ends. I can't figure out what triggers this, and nothing I do makes it stop. It lasts anywhere from a few minutes to half an hour or so and can happen once a day or off and on for hours over the course of the day. It seems to happen in the later part of the day. The episodes are building in frequency.

Any advice or recommendation would be very welcomed. This really hurts.

Thanks.

1st two months benchmark:

I began with Vitamin B12 injections. Starting with 3000mcg injections a day for 5 days to get my load up, my energy levels stopped crashing after about the first week. From that point I went to 1000mcg/day for the next 5-6 weeks. Now I'm starting a routine of 1000mcg/week. If my energy levels dip again, I experience too much stress, or I pull really long hours at work (my hours have been brutal since Jan.), I will give myself a booster shot.

I just got off the phone with my doctor and she is not comfortable initiating the treatment protocol because of legal, ethical and safety concerns. She was sympathetic to my situation and will bring this topic up for discussion at the team meeting tomorrow afternoon, and is going to look into it further to find substantiating data.

*sigh*

NOTE: I changed the name of the blog. 

Hello, and thank you for taking the time to read this post.

I was not able to locate information referencing contraindications to my Rx topicals.

Please pardon me if this is covered elsewhere.

I'll start with a bit about where I'm at and have been.

Mental

I'm a graphic designer who works from home. I have a happy homelife and a positive worklife. I believe that i am a healthy person, I just do not physically feel like one. I have long suspected that everything I experience is tied together, so am really happy to see this Web site. I want to live my life again: I want to go outside into the sunshine; ride a bike; shop in a store!



Physical