What Causes Short-Term Pain?

[KFCA]

I mean when you momentarily (or perhaps a short time longer) have pain & then it goes away, not to return?

For example, a few weeks ago I had a rather sharp pain in one of my fingers that lasted maybe five minutes. Being a slight hypochondriac, I naturally thought it the start of a malady of some sort. Then it went away as mysteriously as it came. And mostly I recall a very painful spot that occured on my right arm, below my elbow, so painful I recall it decades later. 15 minutes tops & gone...never had a pain there since.

Are such things some kind of "electrical impulses" or "misfirings" in the body at work?

[TruthSeeker]

Nobody really knows the answer to this.

The leading thinking would suggest something similar to what you suggest an aberant message from the brain. Remember, pain is in the brain not the perceived location of the pain.

Those "random" pains may be related to a brief muscle spasm or may be more like a phantom experience.

google "gate control theory" or "pain neuromatrix" or "phantom limb pain" for more.

[Soapy Sam]

Soft tissue trauma? (eg a compressed nerve)- caused by bad posture like sitting in a car for too long?

Possibly a tendon inflammation in the finger? Tendon not aligned right at a joint?

Wild guesses. Here's a better one-

Aliens performing operations on you and erasing your memory afterward?

[TruthSeeker]

Originally posted by Soapy Sam


Aliens performing operations on you and erasing your memory afterward?


Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....it's supposed to be a secret.


;)