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Thanks Max, Jill. Radial nerve entrapment I'm told today by the gp who wants to see a copy of the poem because she feels it might be a better representation of my condition. She was impressed that I have resorted to this mode of expression rather than provide a simple list of symptoms. Bill On 23/04/2015, at 1:29 AM, Max Richards wrote: > Gosh, Bill, you unfold the sensations brilliantly. > > I did not know till now that the word impingement had this medical use. > > Having had for years and right now similar symptoms, I feel helped! > > Rare compliment to a poem, which this surely is. > > best from Max > > [Is keyboarding responsible for my condition? > > I also blame the Labrador pulling on the leash… > > and lying on it while asleep...] > > > On Apr 21, 2015, at 15:46, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Impingement >> >> like a malignant electric drizzle, >> sets off down your forearm, >> stuttering, vibrating. >> >> Reaches, pulses, extends beyond >> fingertips, especially >> the middle finger. >> >> At other times it jolts, sends off >> surges of uneven calibre. A flat >> smattering spreads the jangling, >> >> colonising the back of your hand. >> Then rare hiatus as though it's gone, >> in a narrow range of positions, >> >> or a vaguely insistent, not unpleasant >> tingling thrum. But move a certain way, >> and feel a controlled, firm pressing down. >> >> No loss of strength as such >> but you know the zap lurks, >> will announce its forearm assault >> >> when it cares to. Like when you sit >> at table or grip a steering wheel: >> fine hot glass shards under skin. >> >> Sleep torpedoed nightly. >> Your arm is no longer your own. >> You dream of chopping wood. >> >> bw >> 22.4.15 >