beside oneself. In a state of extreme agitation or excitement, as in She was beside herself when she found she'd lost her ring, or Peter was beside himself with joyâhe'd won the poetry award.
Symptoms & Signs. Pain in the arm can result from a number of factors. Abnormalities or injury of the skin, nerves, bones, joints, blood vessels, and soft tissues of the arm can all result in pain. Arm pain, depending on the location and cause, may be accompanied by numbness, redness, swelling, tenderness, or stiffness of the joints.
Referred arm pain can be due to a heart attack. Pain radiating to the left arm is a hallmark symptom of a heart attack and may occur with the feeling of pressure or squeezing pain in the center of the chest, nausea, vomiting, sweating, irregular heart rate, and difficulty breathing.