Question for the women...
 

Ok, it started this afternoon. random new pain. You ever have the underwire decide to break free of the bra and stab you in the ta ta? Thats what it feels like...except....

I was wearing a non underwire sports bra at the time. Which has since been ripped off. But the stabbing pain remains. No bruise, doesn't hurt worse when you touch it, or when I move my arm to different poisitions. Just a constant being stabbed kind of pain.

What is that??? Seeing as I have so much wrong with my neck/spine, I may be jumping the gun to assume this is a nerve thing. Anybody else get this?

Which doc do I get to call if this doesn't go away? The girl doc who is in charge of the ta tas, the PCP, or the nerve lady? For what it's worth, I wish I could call the chiro on this one.

Well, I get that pain but it shoots from my nipple to my back. Mine isn't constant though but when I over do it it lasts quite a while. Honestly, I would have no clue on who to call. Maybe try your pcp's nurse and ask if they know which doctor you should see. I know what you mean about the chiro!

Hopefully some rest will help! There's always wishful thinking right?:winky:

I get something similar to that too. I think it's some weird type of MS Hug sensation.

hate it when my underwire gets all stabbity on me too. Both sensations are irritating.

Yesterday, got a pain in bra/breast area, front and back. Painful, not gas, but felt like pressure both sides, achy, hurtful, etc. Could breathe but it felt worse when I did. I thought "this must be a variation of the hug." Then is was gone, nothing I did, but Poof, was gone. Of course now I'm wondering when it's gonna ambush me again. Even my shoulders and arms got some pain.

yes, feels like im poked with something sharp, but no amount of adjustments make it better. I find changin positions, or stretching is the only thing that helps. I assume my comes from my spinal area, so I hope stretching will confuse the signal it sends out. Stupid disease!

I have been awake since 3 am. Why? because my boob hurts. Yeah top that! I tried the tens unit thinking it might confuse the signal, of course that was just weird and didn't work. Now I am trying an ice pack.

You ever want a quick way to wake up after you have been up all night? Stick an ice pack in your tank top. Believe me, I am awake now!:icon_eek:

Yeah, brrrr!:eek: I would say it's time to call the doc, if it's keeping you up at night it needs handled so you can get rest! I hope you at least got some sleep last night! Let me know if you find something that works.

OUCH! It could be nerve. I get that in my ribs but it is lower than my breast area. It's my ever loving MS hug.

Are you close to your period? Can you feel any lumps? I'm "lumpy" and have had similar pain when one of the cysts acts up. It's not a comfortable feeling.

Since it kept you up at night and you aren't too sure what it is, I would give your dr a call. Maybe start by calling your PCP and then go from there.

Check in with us and let us know how you are doing.:hug:

SO I called the pcp who asked me a bunch of questions and he says it sounds like a nerve thing. So I call my neuro, who of course asks if we did any x-rays or testing, I said no. She tells me to call my girly doc and ask for testing.

So tomorrow morning I get to go in for poking and prodding and a mamogram... such fun.

Something tells me the stabbing pain is not going to go away by sandwhiching it between two pieces of glass.

You can ask for thermal imaging instead of the mammo. It's safer and much less painful plus they get all the info they need. Not painful at all in fact.

Are you gals telling me you still wear bras with wires in them? I had to give that up 20 years ago. I don't want to sound preachy, but I do pretty well with a bra from a catalogue which has a sort of firm cloth "wire"--not metal. I too feel uncomfortable without support,
and this cloth "wire" is better. But I love to get the darn bra off, too. Wish I were not a 38 C.

Is thermal imaging widely available? It was not available in the Seattle area five years or so ago when I had my last mammogram. I never had too much pain with the mammos, due to not having lumps, but I don't like the radiation. My mother's breast cancer was discovered not from a mammogram but from doctor palpation of the breasts. She lived 25 years after that.

I always had sore/painful breasts at period time and also when I started peri menepause...ouch.

I hope it's just a natural change and will go away soon..:hug:

When I was young they always said when I got older then I'd be glad I was never big. It's one thing or the other, isn't it. Happy at different times I'm not so pleased now I wouldn't have minded a little more back in the day.

Here is a link that explains what Thermal Imaging is and what the difference is between it and traditional mammograms. It's available here but some insurance companies won't cover it. :mad: Must be too safe. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:


http://amazingdiscoveries.org/AD-Mag...ammograms.html

Well, it is not available at my lovely hospital. the good news is...it is too close to that time of the month so they had to put off the squishy for a couple of weeks. He did the exam yesterday and tells me the same thing I already knew. it appears to be a nerve pain.

There is a nerve that runs along the side right where the pain is. He doesn't want to blame it on MS so he is insiting that I go get the squishy squishy so we can try to find the cause.

Paresthesia-according to my neuro

I get the stabbing pain like someone is jamming a hatpin in my nether region sometimes, and have had them in the side of my breast. It always takes me by surprise and makes me yelp out loud the first time it happens and then I am ready for it when it comes again. Sometimes it lasts for a few days and sometimes I get the jab just once or twice.

(I hate when that happens in the grocery store!)

It's a nerve sending a false signal to your brain. It could be stabbing, tingling or prickling, water dripping on you when there is no water, heat when there is no source, cold when there is no source, etc. It can stay for awhile or disappear as fast as it comes. I try to trick it when it happens, by putting a piece of ice on the spot for a few minutes, or a hot cloth. For some reason that can work, but sometimes you just have to wait it out.

For me, it wasn't worth going on any med since it went away as fast as it came most of the time. When it doesn't go away, they classify it as a form of neuralgia. Some people have been treated with amitriptaline or gabapentin with success and some got no help from the meds.

Sorry to hear you are getting stabbed...and I hope it resolves soon.

update ...
 

I went for my mammogram today. And an ultrasound and the results are in... we think its a spinal lesion causing the nerve pain.

But, the tests themselves not only caused pain and bruises. They also caused all of the nerves in my chest and back to go crazy. It hurts so bad I have been icing them down every hour or so. I am now wide awake but oh my ouchness! The veins are now huge and very noticeable, it hurts to walk, hurts to shower and god forbid I lift my cup to my lips to take a sip of water.

You ever wish your doctors would just listen to you when you yell them about your new nerve pain? Did I not say it was a nerve thing??