Lisa,
I am on that forum too, and people ask all kind of things like that all the time. Fibromyalgia has so many symptoms and they are widespread and crazy. No one will be offended.
When I first was diagnosed with myofascial pain I had a lot of the little prickling pain in my fingertips and hands but not sure if it's the same thing.
Hopefully it's just something that will fade away. I know sometimes if I use my neck arms a certain way I will be a little different feelings and then they will diminish. I'm sorry you're having to go through this. I know you're new to the group and I haven't welcomed you.
I have had trouble reading the posts lately. I think I finally figured out maybe it was a small print, so with longer posts I will need to make my font size larger. Plus sometimes I just can't concentrate long enough to read very much.
But I very much care what you're going through, and hope that you can find some things to help you.
I have been in pain for seven years, the first for being pretty bad and the last three being horrible. I think mine got worse because I was unable to take care of myself.
Right in the midst of my pain we lost our hum to hurricane Katrina when a house got flooded and we were forced out on the street until we found a place to Live.
Then my father got sick and passed away and all the stress from all of that just did me in.
And then I had to keep working because I did am wanna lose my retirement. But I finally got to retire.
And now I'm doing a few things that are helping me.
So don't give up hope. Love, Pauli

There is a trigger point in your back that can cause pain under your shoulder blade and down your elbow to your fingertips, particularly the pinky and next finger. This website has helped me a lot to figure out where the origin of the pain is.

http://www.triggerpoints.net/

Hi, Pauli. I just don't want to be one of those people who goes on a board and says, "Hey my toe kinda hurts; is it cancer?" I'm probably getting carried away, although, I've never experienced this weird prickling pain in my fingertips before. I'll try to see how it progresses/regresses over the next few days.

Your last few years sound just horrible. I am glad that you are finding a couple of treatments that are at least helping. I also know how it feels to work when you're in pain--well, I'm not working now, but I did for 2 years after my accident, and boy did it suck. I'm taking a break now because I can't sit hardly at all, and I had a job in an office. Standing stationary isn't much better. Actually, as long as my s.i. joints aren't too bad, walking is probably my best "position." Ironic. Anyway, I really hope things are starting to turn around for you.

Oh, and 2Young, thanks for the website. Yeah, I actually think it's something different because there isn't any pain in my arms or shoulders--just fingertips.

Charts for referred pain show places where the pain could show up. It could show up in all of the places shown on the chart, or only one.

It is not unusual to start working on a trigger point in the glutes and have that action flip a distant trigger point from latent to active. It is also possible that the self massage work that you are doing with your hands flipped the bugger on. At one point a few weeks ago a TrP flared located on the inner edge of my shoulder blade. It made my pinky and ring finger alternately tingle and sting. Two days of BATW quieted that one down.

I know that it sounds counter-intuitive, but the fact that you are making the nature of the pain change, even to the point that you are experiencing pain in new locations is almost always a good thing.

Keep at it and keep asking questions.

Interesting stuff. Why can't I just press on all my trigger points and they just disappear!!! :)

Lisa I get weird pains in different areas such as a knife feeling being stuck in my throat last week I had the same feeling only it was by my ankle (that was a new one for me) I guess I have always figured it was from the muscles messing with nerves.

LisaLoo,
Some symptoms of celiac disease is pain in fingers, muscle weakness and cramps. I've been exploring this because I have always had problems with wheat, beginning with an allergy. I'm reexploring it now, going off all gluten foods to see if it has anything to do with muscle cramps.
Of course, now I won't know if its wheat or oxygen. Oh, well, guess I can always test the wheat issue later by eating wheat for a few days.

assunda I have been gluten free for over two years now, has helped stomach issues greatly, muscle wise no, I do know some people who do have muscle issues.

Well, I was tested for food allergies a few years back, and I'm not sensitive to wheat, and it seems like I don't have the stomach symptoms, but thanks for throwing that out there. I'm still wondering what's going on. I still have the pain in my fingers (almost all of my fingers in both hands), plus now I have this really weird sensation in my hands and arms. I'm thinking it is a compressed nerve, but where, I don't know. I fee like it's no use going to a doctor here in Las Vegas, because they are all so bad here. Plus I don't have insurance, anyway. I'm just hoping it goes away on its own. I'm pretty disturbed about this, but I feel like there isn't much I can do besides go for a little walk, do some stretching, and try to not think about it (hard to do). Bisja, that knife in the throat feeling sounds horrible. Ugh.

Lisa I think alot of my stabbing pains in my throat are from my neck a PT said I am like a brick all theway up and down my neck front sides and back when my neck is a bit looser then do not have that, but if your neck is tight I would say you have a bunch of nerves pinched. Do your muscles ever burn? Lately right between my shoulder blades is on fire.