Hi,
I have been diagnosed with TOS and i have this tremble or shake to my hands, left and right, when i put them out in front of me and then rotate the hands upward (toward ceiling) then downward (toward floor). Mine shake all the way when doing this and are painful. Does anyone with TOS have this? thank u.... Martina

Martina when you lift your arms out to the front, like driving a car, computer work, it lifts the ribs against the outlet under the collar bone area to compress the outlet.
If your nerve dermatones are acting up and this painful, I would contact the doc, even your PCP for a shot or Toradol. It is none narcotic anitinflamatory that helps in about 15 minutes.
The other thing is the pack of steroids...what the heck is it called, metropropal?

I don't remember if you said your are working, keying. If this is the case and in are in this large of a flare up, you may need to rest the arms for two weeks at least. With the treatment of the toradol etc.

If this repetitive from work, start a w/c claim now so you can get the paid few weeks off and medical needs covered. Including going back to work with modifications the OT would request. I think you had some, but sounds like you need more.

Are you on the phone a lot lately? This may e inciting that arm.

Hi Diane,

Im not sure what is going on. The medicine was similar to prednisone, it started with a metha . i cant remember the rest of the spelling. I am wondering, if i could have a brachial plexus avulsion injury, but then that would mean than i was completely torn from my nerve roots, andm my neural foramina would be empty. Would something like that show up on CAT scan MRI or EMG... I mean if the cervical nerves were completely torn out from the nerve root.. ? i have feeling and sensation, just alot of pain,,,numbness in coldness in fingers/hands though,,,,,, MARTINA

The numbness and coldness do not sound like torn nerves. that would irtractable hyper pain signals. It seems more like a CRPSor hyper signals, and or slow signals. THere are some test that dr. Scott Fried does that can perhaps shed light on what is going on.

For the short term, I would see the pCP for a shot of TOradol and at least get the inflammation helped. Not the pills, you need the good ol shot. When my dd was real bad to avoid an ER trip I would get her to PCP for the shot.
I would consider too a blood clot for that much pain? Is you arm itself swollen?
There are sheathed and unsheathed nerves that carry signals to the brain. It sounds like the signals are traveling the super hwy to the brain. The others is the cold signals. So both types of nerves area reacting.

If nerves worn torn, I think that it would be a problem making the muscles move because the brain signals would not be making it.
But, with a stretch or overuse assault, the whacky signals go on .
Is it weather related this week? THe storm systems and rain have me holding my arm and hand in a lot of pain I was at first relating to all the photos, diagrams and computer entry for the escalation in claims this week. I drove myself today and stood in the rain for two claims and tonight wraped my arm in heating pad and the side of my neck by head in ice.
Took Bayer, a valium and went in my room to sob. My left wing from holding my arm up is just feeling like a horse kicked it. My lumbar is the same. So i thought the rain and pressure system really affected more so this week.

Can you get some appointments set up to rule things in and or out?

I have TOS also. My right arm has been turning purple and painful for over a year. Both arms tremble with motion. i just had two of my cervical vertebrae fused and I was hoping it would help the tremors. I think the muscles in my pecs, arm pits, bicep and forearm are so tight they are impinging the nerves. My husband has been helping me by using a rolling pin on my arms. I lay on the floor and he rolls it up and down my forearm and then then other areas. It hurts like heck. When he rolls over a big lump I jump out of my skin. I have also been stretching against a wall. And it is helping. My pain management doctor wanted me to try all kinds of drugs and I did but it never helped. I believe it is totally structural and can be reversed. If it were anything serious like parkinson's or MS the tremble wouldn't only happen with motion. I think mine is from overuse, I am a hair stylist and nail tech, and my psoriatic arthritis. I'm not giving up!