Re: Do you ever get a pain in your arm?
Posted by Spartan on
Fri Nov 19th 2004 at 9:11pm
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I know what your thinking, WTF? This has to be the dumbest thread ever.
Try to be serious when you post. I just want to know if any gets a pain in either one of the arms that occurs everyonce in a while. Preferably the one that you use for most of your tasks. Everyonce in a while I getting a pain in my right arm that I have to wait for it to go away. It doesn't sting but it feels like someone is pressing against really hard. I don't know if it is from using the computer more than I should so I want to see if other people who use their computers as much as I do have the same occuring pain.
Re: Do you ever get a pain in your arm?
Posted by Yak_Fighter on
Fri Nov 19th 2004 at 9:15pm
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Sounds like a heart attack is coming
To be serious, i never have pain in either arm from using a computer. The only pain I get is from extended use, and the only places i get it is in my wrist. What you have doesn't sound good or normal.
Re: Do you ever get a pain in your arm?
Posted by ReNo on
Fri Nov 19th 2004 at 9:18pm
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Like Yak, its my wrists that get sore from extended use as opposed to
anywhere else. I also get some pain in my left pinky finger from
extended gaming because I tend to bend it a bit too much from using
ctrl. I should probably either get another keyboard or swap my shift
and ctrl functions onto caps lock and shift...but I never do.
Re: Do you ever get a pain in your arm?
Posted by Spartan on
Fri Nov 19th 2004 at 9:21pm
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I also get pain in my hands wrists and fingers. I attend drafting courses every day and do a lot of sketches. These combined with the use of my computer are what I think are causing all this pain. Rest would probably temporaly fix it but I still have to do my drafting and that is probably worse on my arms and hands than the art and computer combined.
Re: Do you ever get a pain in your arm?
Posted by Andrei on
Fri Nov 19th 2004 at 9:32pm
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I get the exact same thing at my right foot. As far as i can tell, the bones seem to get stuck in eachother and can't move for a few seconds. All the while giving me extreme pain in the region. Perhaps because of my BMI (which is under 25). :sad:
Re: Do you ever get a pain in your arm?
Posted by Orpheus on
Fri Nov 19th 2004 at 9:43pm
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on a serious note, low calcium levels cause low grade cramps and pains..
if you ever get "growing pains" as my parents used to say, its caused by low calcium levels.
take calcium pills daily and those pains go away.
Re: Do you ever get a pain in your arm?
Posted by pepper on
Fri Nov 19th 2004 at 10:06pm
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i had a few days pain in my right pink, i wasnt used to my mx500 back then.
Re: Do you ever get a pain in your arm?
Posted by Spartan on
Fri Nov 19th 2004 at 11:36pm
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Ok I was thinking normal was about 600 grams. I was way way off then. I should've payed more attention in drug trafficing class.
Re: Do you ever get a pain in your arm?
Posted by Monqui on
Sat Nov 20th 2004 at 1:59am
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Wait, spartan, you thought NORMAL was 600 GRAMS? You do realize that the M in mg means milli, or one thousandth of a gram. So, 30mg is 20,000 times smaller than 600 grams.
As for pains in arms, I only had major pains when part of my elbow decided to die. That's about it though.
Re: Do you ever get a pain in your arm?
Posted by fishy on
Sat Nov 20th 2004 at 3:01am
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600 grams a day would mean your sore arm is caused by carrying home a months supply. buy less of them at a time.
but seriously, try and be aware of how tense you are, or how good/bad your posture might be. it only takes a second to think about whether your shoulders and neck are too tense, or whether your holding a controler too tightly, or when did you last even move. it's easy to sit for a few hours and not think about any of that, not move much move than a few extremities while the rest of you is tight as a drum.
so just try to be aware of yourself before the pain starts. stick a mirror on top of your monitor if it helps any. :smile:
Re: Do you ever get a pain in your arm?
Posted by Spartan on
Sat Nov 20th 2004 at 3:19am
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I hope we weren't talking about Viagra here. If they did have 600 gram viagra pills those things would probably blow your balls off.
Re: Do you ever get a pain in your arm?
Posted by Dr Brasso on
Sat Nov 20th 2004 at 3:32am
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do i ever get a pain in my arm?..hmmm..only after i married my "pain in the ass"... :heee:
Dr Brasso... :dodgy:
Re: Do you ever get a pain in your arm?
Posted by Monqui on
Sat Nov 20th 2004 at 4:01am
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Ehh, I worked in a pharmacy for about 3 years. I learned a thing or two about metric conversions.
Re: Do you ever get a pain in your arm?
Posted by $loth on
Sat Nov 20th 2004 at 7:34am
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I get a pain in my leg every so often, I think its usually because it hasn't been stretched and i've been a lazy little...... :biggrin:
Re: Do you ever get a pain in your arm?
Posted by Andrei on
Sat Nov 20th 2004 at 11:21am
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Me is amazed of the popularity of this thread :biggrin: .
Re: Do you ever get a pain in your arm?
Posted by wil5on on
Sat Nov 20th 2004 at 12:07pm
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I'd blame my occasional arm pains (of the stretched muscle/cramp variety) on my desk. The desk is too small and pokey for long-term use.
Re: Do you ever get a pain in your arm?
Posted by OtZman on
Sat Nov 20th 2004 at 12:15pm
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I think I had some sort of a pain in my right elbow a year ago or something. I think I cured it with a few pushups ^_^
Nowadays, my back hurts more or less everyday. Probably because of me
sitting to much infront of the screen. Perhaps a better chair would
help me.
Re: Do you ever get a pain in your arm?
Posted by Andrei on
Sat Nov 20th 2004 at 2:36pm
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The muscles between my ribs hurt sometimes aswell...im a human wreak :sad: .
Re: Do you ever get a pain in your arm?
Posted by Forceflow on
Sat Nov 20th 2004 at 3:04pm
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When I've been gaming or surfing too long, my wrist and arm start to
hurt, but that doesn't happen very often, because before that, my
eyeballs start popping out :razz:
It's just a sign you've been in the same position for too long. Get up,
see the world, meet new people. Well, for about 10 minutes, then get
back. :smile: