Company’s calling – a retired surgeon speaks about his nerve pain
March 24, 2008 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
This week, we speak with a retired surgeon from the mid-west USA.
Can you tell me about when you first started experiencing the pain and what kind of pain it was? What were you told?
I started having arm pain around five years before I had to retire. At first I thought it was just a pulled tendon or a bruise. It felt like my elbow and hand were being crushed, or sometimes like a fire breathing rat was gnawing on my bones. Sometimes it feels like I’m being crucified. It would …read more




