Reddit reviews ICY HOT Pain Relieving Stick 1.75 oz (Pack of 4)
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Health CareAnalgesics-Pain Reliefpain-relief-rubsICY to dull the pain. HOT to relax it away. For temporary relief of minor arthritis pain, simple backache, bursitis, tendonitis, muscle strains and sprains, bruises and cramps.
Sort of joining in the chorus here, but yep, that sounds like a muscle spasm. Chronic, gnarly, treatment-resistant muscle spasms are super common with EDS- they're usually associated with a particularly unstable joint, what your muscles freak out overcompensating for, but can be caused by other things as well.
The "zingy" nerve pain is probably caused by impingement- either by the unstable joint subluxing onto it, or the spasmed muscles squeezing the crap out of it. Given your description of the timing, it's probably a subluxation. My random IANAD guess would be AC joint, just because your description sounds a lot like what happens when mine slips.
Treating these things is a bitch and a half. Here are some of the things I do, which help somewhat.
very light, irritatingly soft and repetitive exercises that drive me crazy but actually are maybe kind of effective? BUT I AM NOT A DOCTOR.
Hopefully this will be of some use. I swear some of the worst pain I've experienced in EDS has been from muscle spasms, geez.