Anyone here good with medical stuff?

Princess_Piggie said:

This is completely guinea pig unrelated, so sorry if anyone's clicked thinking it is.

I know I'd have better luck asking this on a medical forum, but I can't be bothered finding a reputable one and signing up for something so minor. I'm going to see a GP sometime next week anyway, I just wanted to get some opinions/info on the issue since no google search has really provided any useful links.

I scalded my entire right hand about a year and a half ago with boiling milk (worked as a barista, steaming the milk, it overflowed, you get the picture) and it was very severe. I went to my local A&E because all the online information on scalds says if it covers a joint, you should be x-rayed, but that never got done, I was just sent home with pain meds.

It was painful to move it for about a week, couldn't hold anything and had to sleep with my hand in a bucket of cool water otherwise the pain was too much to handle.

It's been fine since, every now and again it twinges a little but nothing major. The past week it's been really bad, in particular on the two fingers that took the majority of the milk. The joints are burning (not like a burning pain, as in it feels like I'm being scalded all over again) and said fingers are also quite shaky.

Is it common to get this as an after effect of a severe scald? Like I said, I'm off to a GP for something else so obviously I'll ask there about what could be wrong, I just wanted to know if anyone else has had this, or known anyone else who's had the same issue.

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Princess_Piggie said:

@Red5Iam, jeez, y'know you hear about those sort of situations but when someone you actually speak to has been through it, it makes you even more wary of something like that happening. I'm glad you all got away unharmed (mostly). I have a similar thing in my arm, I was getting my 2nd HPV vaccine and the nurse forgot I was coming so she injected it while it was still frozen. I could hardly move my arm for a month, and the spot were she did it still hurts!
@pinky, I can't even imagine the pain you must have been in. I mean I've had some serious pain in my life time, but the one thing I'm truly terrified of happening is a glass related injury. Thank god it didn't go in an artery!

Wow, I'm so sorry about your mum. My mum's always saying "you take medicine to help one thing, but it just gives you an extra problem in return" which I definitely find to be true. I can't even begin to imagine how she must feel.

The worst pain I've ever experienced was a severe reaction to a medication. My GP gave me an anti-nausea medication because I hadn't eaten for a few days due to my migraines giving me extreme nausea and vomiting. I took it, and then I started to feel a weird sensation in my face, like it was doing things it wasn't supposed to. It was like I was smiling but I wasn't doing it deliberately. Of course I freaked out, rang my doctors, and they gave me an urgent appointment. By the time I'd got there (on my own, I might add, at the age of 16) it was getting stronger. While I waited to be seen it started happening with my eyes, they were being pulled up and I couldn't see anything. My GP called an ambulance and in the 20 minutes it took to get to my hospital, my entire upper body was being controlled by it. My back was practically curved in to a "C", my neck was pulled so far back I was looking at what was behind me, and my arms were pulled back too. It was the most terrifying thing I've ever experienced. I had to have an intramuscular injection that they usually use for people with Parkinsons when they're having a convulsion, and the doctors said I was lucky I didn't dislocate anything. I've never been able to go near any anti-nausea medicine since.

My poor mum was terrified, partially because she was scared for my health but also because I "looked like I was possessed". I can kind of see that, body contorted into a weird position and only the whites of my eyes visible. Can't say I'd feel comfortable looking at that either!

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