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Comment author: GuySrinivasan 26 August 2013 11:53:53PM 6 points [-]

My wife has constant pain. She describes most if it as "joint pain" and some in her right arm as "nerve pain". The joint pain has been around for about a decade and the right arm pain for about 3 years, ever since what certainly looked like a repetitive stress injury at work (lots of mousing with a desk that was too high).

Doctors have checked her out and haven't found a cause for either. Our possible next steps are:

  • Get 2nd (actually 3rd-4th) opinions from local doctors. This feels futile but may still be helpful.
  • Hire a doctor whose job it is to actually track down a cause and treatment, not just check for the common, easily detectable possibilities and then effectively give up. I'm not sure how to go about this but it feels like it should be possible for some price.
  • Find plausible non-harmful self-treatment options and try them. Possible examples have recently been posted here on NancyLebovitz's Two angle's on RSI.

Suggestions, recommendations, places to look?

Comment author: JQuinton 27 August 2013 04:45:44PM *  1 point [-]

A friend of mine suffered from undiagnosable pain in her joints for about a decade as well. About a year ago she discovered it was lime disease. Have any doctors you've talked to already eliminated that possibility?

Comment author: GuySrinivasan 27 August 2013 05:16:33PM 2 points [-]

Blood tests were negative for Lyme.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 27 August 2013 04:58:34PM 2 points [-]

Nitpick: Lyme disease.

Comment author: JQuinton 27 August 2013 05:09:50PM 0 points [-]

I thought it was spelled that way, but Firefox said it was wrong :/

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 28 August 2013 09:09:15PM *  4 points [-]

Firefox is correct: "lyme disease" is wrong. What's wrong is not the spelling but the capitalization.

When I right-click on "lyme" in firefox, it suggests capitalization, just like it does for "firefox."

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 15 September 2013 08:15:04AM 0 points [-]

I didn't know about right-clicking on words that a spell-checker says are wrong.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 27 August 2013 07:27:26PM 2 points [-]

You can't trust spell-checkers-- their vocabulary lists tend to be incomplete.

I recommend at least going to a search engine if you have a strong intuition about how a word should be spelled.

It's not that intuition is entirely reliable, either. It was a hard fight to convince me that it should be irrelevant rather than irrelevent. Now they both look wrong.

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