Hand pain associated with urination or BM.

Guest over a year ago

My mom a d daughter and I have the same problem! It's not your imagination. Ours is severe at times. We thot we were the only ones. Nobody believes us!

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Guest over a year ago

Brandy, I have exactly the same problem. And when you mentioned like electricity I was amazed. As that is exactly what happens to me. Totally horrible. Hope you are feeling better. Sonja

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Guest over a year ago

I am a doctor. I also experience the same hand and finger pains when I urinate. Not always but when I hold my urine for a while and go latter. Sometimes the pain is really sharp which makes me to shake my hand.

Our brain has something sensory cortex which cover all the body areas for sensation including pain. The hand, forearm and arm have a large area representation. There must cross connection between the hand area and the bladder area in the cortex. So if one part like the bladder is affected the hand also gets the same sensation. So if urine burns the bladder and urethra the hands also get the same burning sensation.

It is called referred pain. Similar to this hand pain is the shoulder pains people get when their gallbladder gets infected. Also finger pains in the left hand when someone having heart attack.

It is not serious but just a perplexing conundrum until someone explains it. Please take a look at this image of the brain which shows the areas represented and notice that a large part of the brain covers the thumb,hand, wrist,forearm and shoulder compared to the rest of the body.

So the pain in the hand we get when we urinate is a referred pain. It does not mean you have cancer or any other serious illness. It is just the way our brain is wired up with some cross connections.

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Guest over a year ago

I have had a similar situation, but somewhat different, its only when I pee though. I have had this for more years than I remember. I have asked many many doctors, nurses, and numerous other medical professionals ie: nerve doctors and so on and so forth. I am 60 years of age so you can imagine how many different health care professionals. I have always been told the same thing, hum how strange I have never heard of such thing! My pain is 1st up through the joints of all my fingers, than it will shoot up into my wrist area . but it hurts really bad and it feels likes I need to crack my knuckles, so this must really be rare.. So this probably won't help but you are not the only one. Debi

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Guest over a year ago

Thanks so much for answering me. My hands always hurt (tingle, pins and needles, little shock like aches). When I pee the pains just get so much worse. Nobody has an explanation and
certainly no fixes. I'm 81 years old and I don't expect any answers in my life time. Are you
diabetic? Although I'm heavy, I'm not diabetic; but I think the pain is some kind of nueropothy.
Thanks again and stay well..................Ellen

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Guest over a year ago

Hi sorry but I have been experiencing this exact same thing I am a male 18

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Guest over a year ago

The pain is caused by an over abundance of antidiuretic hormone when you " hold it" it will get worse. Your hands are one of the first places that your body will shunt blood from ADH causes shunting of blood in emergencies, waiting to use the bathroom your body is tricked into thinking there is an emergency and prevents you from fluid loss. When you urinate you have to release acetocholine which is a smooth muscle relaxant. Sphincters are smooth muscles blood flow returning to your fingers the pain is co2 buildup basically same thing when you over work muscles

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Guest over a year ago

Don't feel all alone I told my doctor about it and she let it go out over never did give me an answer I really would like to know what that is the idea of pain in the hands when you need to urinate . I am curious now I wonder is there a connection between the two.

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Guest over a year ago

I would also like to know. Pain upon in the hands when urinating. What entity is that a symptom?

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Guest over a year ago

I thought it was just me. Doctors just tell me the body is very complicated and they do not have an answer. I take Tamsulosin and Cialis. This has helped with going too much but not he pain in the hands.

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Guest over a year ago

Same exact situation here. I'm a 39 yr old female nurse. I had the lab run a urinalysis on my thinking that I had a uti, but it's completely clean. I called my GYN today and made an apt for next week. I also am having some problems with constipation which is making me bear down to have a bm. This could bed elated somehow.

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Guest over a year ago

Take Magnisium Pill and see if that helps. It happens to me once a year.

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Guest over a year ago

Hi Brandy, I have the same exact symptoms. The pain gets worse if I've held it for a long time. I am going to the doctor sometime this week. When I get a response, I'll post it on here.

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Guest over a year ago

This happens all the time to me when I hold it for too long. I am a 34 y/o female in good health. Every time that I hold it too long. The pain is in my wrist. Also holding it too long leads to bladder infections. Seems like many people experience this when held to long or bladder infection from what I am reading!

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Guest over a year ago

My hands hurt all the time. I have a bladder disease and when I have a flair up when I urinate I want to scream. My hands feel like they are stuck in ice with raizor blades

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