So, for the last couple of days, my left arm has felt like got grease was poured directly on it. This isn’t the first time that I have felt or dealt with major extremity pain. I’ve even been to a specialist who performed both an xray and a vascular ultrasound. Both was determined to be normal. Anyone can tell you that none of my symptoms are normal. So when the burning started, I freaked out. Now the problem that I have now is that I do not trust my local ER. None of the members of my family do. So, I asked around to my Warrior family to see was I the only one suffering from this? And this was the response of the majority.

Any damage, irritation or disease of the nerves can elicit a burning sensation on the skin. The term for these different nerve disorders is neuropathy and when it affects the nerves outside of the brain and spinal cord it is known as peripheral neuropathy. It can occur for a number of different reasons, including inflammation (traumatic and non-traumatic), infection, metabolic, toxic or hereditary factors and due to nerve tumors. (I suffer from Chronic Sarcoidosis, Fibromyalgia, Chronic pain, Neuropathy, type 2 Diabetes and Rheumatoid Arthritis)

Two common causes include a pinched nerve where there is compression of the nerve root emanating from the spinal cord, and diabetic neuropathy which is nerve damage from long standing diabetes. A burning sensation may also be accompanied by tingling, prickling and numbness when the sensory nerve fibers are only affected, or there may also be accompanying muscle weakness or paralysis if mixed fibers or motor fibers are involved.