shooting pain

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Josh Askins woke up in the crawl space of an abandoned house with nausea, chills and a shooting pain in his legs.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2023

She hobbles on the side of her foot and shooting pain means she can't walk far.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2022

“If you have enough inflammation in the area, you can have nerves that have swelling around them as well that could send a shooting pain down the arm,” Ritter explains.

From Slate • Apr. 22, 2021

Phommachanh returned home nearly two months ago and still has some lingering nerve damage in his hand — a tingling, sometimes shooting pain from his ring finger to his pinkie finger.

From Washington Post • May 29, 2020

“I felt this shooting pain in my head,” he said.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis