Shooting Pain in fingernail!

I have a pain in my middle finger on my left hand, mostly when it gets cold,, I have talked with my doctor and i'm on a drug called gabapentin which has a few different uses, one for maybe a nerve pain but im not seeing great results yet,, I have been doing some more research, I found something, which seems to fit my pain pretty well, theres a embedded link with the Raynaud highlighted in blue which I will be talking to my doctor about at my next visit,, this happens to me other time when my hand gets cold, I've been woken up in the middle of the night, it can be super sensitive if I touch or brush up against something wrong.. I hope this helps you finding an answer..

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I had a glomus tumor under the nailbed of my thumb and had it surgically removed 6 days ago. The tumor had not shown up on X-Rays, MRI, nuclear X-rays, but the doctor/surgeon said they didn't always show up. I knew something was wayyyyy wrong and had suffered for 2 years with it. If I accidentally hit that part of the nail bed it was screaming pain- so bad. I could never get a manicure on that thumb because pressing the nail with the stick to push back the cuticle was a killer. In the last 6 months, I began to have shooting pains up my arm from the thumb; sometimes when I had pressure on the arm or elbow and sometimes for no reason at all. I went back to see the doctor ( had seen him a year ago) and we agreed it was time for surgery. He said there were 3 types of tumors it could be, but the glomus was the best hope & easiest fix because it generally is like a little red football in there, all in one piece. The surgery was done in a surgery center under the type of anesthesia they give you for a colonoscopy. It took about 30-40 minutes. The doc/surgeon told me it was indeed a glomus tumor and popped right out in one piece. So I was lucky that it wasn't attached to the bone or tendons, etc. I came out with my thumb & palm of my hand wrapped in a stretchy thing. Clearly there is a solid plastic or metal cap under the stretchy wrap over my thumb for protection, and I can't bend the thumb. I'm not allowed to get it wet or take it off for 2 weeks, which makes every day living a bit of a challenge. The doctor prescibed some kind of non-narcotic pain med to filled, it was useless. I called the doctor's office a day and a half after the surgery, but the doctor was gone on Friday, and you have to have the RX in hand & they had no one to write up the RX anyway (they no longer can call it in.) I was in serious pain for a day in a half until I dug into my old stash of drugs from previous surgeries/injuries. I took Percoset and alternated with 2 Darvon for 2 days and then was good. Have had one Darvon in the last 2 days. None today and don't need it. I have had a few sharp pains that come and go, but feel OK. Lesson learned- try to have surgery earlier in the week and not Wednesday PM. I go back in a week to have this stretchy thing and inside cap removed and get a smalled protective thing on it. I'm not looking forward to 3-4 months of a nail growing in, but I hope to be in good shape afterwards. I got a call from the doctor himself yesterday telling me that the lab had confirmed it was a glomus tumor and not malignant. Yeah! Hope this helps. The doctor/surgeon said I shouldn't have any nerve damage and it should look OK when the nail was grown.

Mines the same thing same place I put it in cold warter for a wile it seems to help

It's possible you have a glomus tumor under your fingernail.

Yes I had one under my fingernail and it was probably one of the worst health issues I've had. The pain if slightly knocked was excruciating and daily tasks had to be done carefully. It affected my quality of life to the point I started suffering from anxiety but thankfully all symtoms disappeared along with its surgical removal. Go to your doctor and ask for it to be investigated.

Alright guys I've found a great treatment to this horrible pain. I had the almost wxact same symptoms and mine is halfway down the road to recovery. My left pinky tip was in so much pain over just the tiniest bump, and that's when I realized I should do something about it. I looked up in google and couldn't find out what it was or what treatments would help so I took it upon myself to figure it out. So I cut my nail as low as possible until it started hurting and I saw something. Even though my nail was cut as low as possible there was still a lot of space between my nail and skin. It look as if my skin was pulled away from the nail. So I used my thumb to pull the skin back and saw some black gunk under there. And cleaned it out with a Q-tip. The side of my nail and the tip were also my dry and cracked so I ran a cuticle cutter along the dry areas until a small part started peeling off. I took the cutters to slowly and gently cut away as much dry skin as possible. Afterwards I dipped a Q-tip into hydrogen peroxide and dabbed it all around (including the area under my nail). I did this same procedure until the peroxide stopped bubbling. Clean the affected area whenever it starts to get too painful and you should notice it getting better. It's a natural reaction for your skin to heal itself after cutting dry peices off. I hope this helps and I'm sorry for any typos!

Dear Linda,

Please let me know if that surgery work for you. My mom having the same problem on top of his left thumb.

Hi,
Sorry to digress, but my finger nail pain in particular comes and goes randomly, not associated with cold weather or hitting the finger nail, just happens for no reason and is a very sharp like nerve pain right in the middle of my index finger nail, like a nail is driving through it, hasn't occurred for a month or more now, not life threatening but I know it will surface again, any ideas? Don't know if it could also be a glomus tumor?

I have sharp pain intermittently under my finger nail on one finger only and the same nail has a deep ridge in it which separates at the tip and catches in things. Some days it is worse than others.

This is so helpful to me I'me a student nurse and I am approaching surgery to remove a glom us tumour I'm really concerned about missing placement time and pending exams but I so need to get out of pain .... Glad your recovery was pretty speedy

*Thank you* for this post! I have also dealt with this for 20 years or more, same finger. Mine also was becoming gradually worse and I was lucky to stumble upon a web page that finally led me to a hand surgeon and some answers. I'm scheduled for surgery a week from today and fairly nervous about the procedure and recovery, so your post helped ease my mind a little - thank you!

Almost the same story here. Self diagnosed a glomus tumor on my ring finger of my left finger under the nail as well. No other doctors seemed to know what was wrong with me. Google helped me figure it out. Had for 18 years and was a blue spot under the nail. When I was pregnant, it became unbearable and also would wake me at night. Would send shooting pains from my finger to my chest throughout the day and night and it often felt like I was slamming my finger in a door if I applied just a little pressure to it. I eventually found a hand surgeon who knew what it was.

Unfortunately, two years later, it has come back and I have to have it removed again next week. But it hurts far less than it did with the first tumor. My surgeon said I'm the first she's ever had that has had a recurrence. The first one wasn't cold sensitive, but this one is.

I also ha've a shooting pain on my right finger but on the cuticle

Tdo u have scleroderma or Reynaldo

I have both

Ho