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From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 11 Aug 2010 08:01
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Paul Carmichael
<wibbleypants(a)gmail.com> saying something like:

>When I touch the front of my knee, the *outside* of my leg hurts. Also
>numbness in the calf and aching hamstring. Just damaged nerves that will
>heal themselves? Or should I be worried (actually, I already am)?.

Nerve damage often heals, but slowly. Sometimes it doesn't heal and you
just have to grin and bear it.
I had sciatica a few years ago and the sciatic nerve is still sensitive.
Subsequent to that, I strained a nerve in my groin (cba to look it up)
and that was utterly crippling for a couple of weeks, but cleared up
enough to be back at work in three, but tender for months afterwards. So
yes, probably nothing to worry about.
From: Brownz on 11 Aug 2010 10:44
On 11 Aug, 13:01, Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REM...(a)REMOVEgmail.com>
wrote:
> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
> drugs began to take hold. I remember Paul Carmichael
> <wibbleypa...(a)gmail.com> saying something like:
>
>
> Subsequent to that, I strained a nerve in my groin (cba to look it up)


? ^^^^^^^^^^^ ?

In fact.... no, I don't want to know !
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 11 Aug 2010 13:31
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Brownz <admin(a)brownz.org> saying
something like:

>> Subsequent to that, I strained a nerve in my groin (cba to look it up)
>
>
>? ^^^^^^^^^^^ ?

The name of the nerve. I'd never known it was there, but it runs across
the underside. Which ties in nicely with the cause of the injury -
spending too long kneeling astride a pipe with each knee on a slightly
too far apart joist.
It was painful enough I had to pack in the job and drive home - problem
was, every two miles or so the pain was unendurable and I had to stop,
get out and find a position where the inflammation wasn't quite to
intense, then drive again. Had no choice.

>In fact.... no, I don't want to know !

From: Pip Luscher on 11 Aug 2010 15:09
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:29:52 -0700, sean_q <no.spam(a)no.spam> wrote:

>Paul Carmichael wrote:
>
>> When I touch the front of my knee, the *outside* of my leg hurts.
>
>I believe this is called "referred pain".
>See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referred_pain
>
>Apparently the cause is unknown... to western medicine, at least.
>Chinese acupuncturists probably know something about it.

AIUI it's just crosstalk in the nerve fibres.

--
-Pip
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