Be advised, redatb, that this thread is pretty old, and woodflute probably isn’t following it any more.
But welcome, and I hope someone has more information this time around.
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Original Post:
“I am a 40-year-old man. As long as I can remember, definately back into my preteen years, if I have to postpone urination, when I finally do get to “go,” I have extremely painful aches in the fingers of both hands, which don’t stop until I stop urinating.”
I know the original post is nearly 12 years old, but I experience (and just moments ago experienced again) the exact same thing. Not just finger pain, but more specifically a sharp, stinging kind of ache, very intense, in the JOINTS of my fingers. Mine starts out intense but fades after 8-10 seconds.
I have a theory: I have a friend who occasionally experiences gout outbreaks, and his description of the pain is very similar. I understand that gout pain is caused when uric acid builds up in the joints and crystalizes. My non-medically trained mind tells me when my kidneys are overtaxed (bladder too full) or other conditions (I pass kidney stones more frequently than usual) then perhaps the uric acid levels increase, creating gout-like symptoms. ??? Maybe ??? Why the fingers and not toes and ankles… I don’t know, Margo…
Can some medical whiz (pun intended) dispense a few drops of… wisdom on my theory?
If I am on a long drive up the Highway 5 in California after about 6 hours from Los Angles an intense pain hits my right upper incisor, so bad I have to pull over for a minute or two. It only happens on that particular route but it happens every time. I usually start the trip about the same time in the morning. This has happened my entire adult life on at least 80% of the trips
Now that is strange. Maybe it is radio waves. Open your mouth to sing, and see if you hear the radio. ( I joke). That is really a mystery.
This is just speculation, mind you, but could there be a secret government lab near that location experimenting with strange radiation that the nerves in that particular tooth are sensitive to?
Why Honeys tooth and no one else? If it is a secret government installation that could cause one persons tooth to ache, surely there would be more evidence. I mean, I am just saying.
How irritated are you with other drivers during these trips? I wonder if you’re clenching your teeth or jaw without realizing it.
Does it only happen when you are driving?
Maybe it’s elevation.
Is there a particular location along I-5 that you’re always at when this happens? Six hours out of Los Angeles must put you well north of Bakersfield, but perhaps not quite as far north as Fresno. Somewhere near Harris Ranch? (HUGE cattle feed lot alongside I-5. You can’t miss it, depending on which way the wind is blowing. Even airplane pilots flying over tend to remark on it.) I drive that stretch quite regularly lately.
ETA:
I doubt it can be irritation with traffic. This is a substantially rural stretch of highway, stretching all the way from Grapevine (south of Bakersfield) all the way to Tracy (near San Francisco), usually with very light traffic, although lots of trucks.
Only happens when driving and now that those teeth have been pulled I still get the same pain. The only thing I can attribute it to is some kind of stress but I do longer drives on different routes and have never encountered this problem.
I have noted the time but never the exact location for some reason, I believe it is about 1 hour past the ranches.
Frankly, everything I’ve been reading in this topic seems to be in the category of psychosomatic – mental symptoms caused by internal conflict or stress.
Old thread, but still unsolved problem.
I too get this when my bladder is very full, pain in all fingers especially the tips. Goes away after urination. Been going on for few years and every PCP/GP I’ve asked has never heard of it.
My theory is bladder pushing against nerves, will ask a specialist one day.
Yes old thread but … yeah that autonomic nerve does wander around.
(Medical nerd reference - it is called the vagus nerve, from the root that means wandering, like vagabond, because it is one very long nerve that goes freaking all over)
Point being that there is plenty of reason to accept that, just like heart pain can be referred to shoulder, and hip inflammation to knee, bladder sensation can be referred elsewhere too. Vagal afferents are weird.