Hi Spoonie,

Did you have much work up done? I am always harping about nerve entrapment because of personal experience and because it mimics and is sometimes confused with CRPS. I hate to think of people suffering over a nerve entrapment that can be treated. I get suspicious of stabbing, electrical pains as being nerve related in a different way than CRPS. So classic. The elbow area is a common site of entrapment or damage to the ulnar nerve. I can say with the authority of experience that the pain of entrapment can travel both up and down no matter what doctors tell you. I had pain shoot both ways. My father in law also went through a similar thing. Ulnar nerve actually! Compressed during a surgery. I always say new symptoms deserve a new look-see. We cannot sell ourselves short because of the diagnosis given to us. See about a nerve conduction test if you haven't had one or even if you have....Before you worry about spread make sure there's not something else going on. Case in point, I recently had buzzing going up my leg and was really scared symptoms were spreading past my foot and ankle. Turns out I was aggravating my saphenous nerve at the adductor canal of the thigh (a common site for this) riding the recumbent bike at the gym. I only figured this out after months of worry because I took ten days off my workout, had symptoms disappear then return when I went back to the gym. Doh! That problem totally resolved within 3 weeks of my not being such an idiot.
If nothing else is causing your symptoms then hit the Vit C and n-acetyl cysteine. Try not to panic, stress hormones won't help. Mirror therapy is good for addressing central sensitization which may be related to spread. Keep movin' if you can and hang in there!
Sending Healing Love, Littlepaw