Anyone here had Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?

[Izzy_*now*]

hi All,

Has anyone here been treated for carpal tunnel syndrome? What better place to ask others for personal experiences?

When I took myself to hospital when I arms had gone numb, about last June, I might have mentioned this, --

In Emergency  a guy was inserting the IV in my wrist and the needle hit something, a bone, a tendon, a nerve, but I had to let my wrist hang/dangle to get through the night and was sent home at 7:00 with no answers. Nevertheless when the IV was being removed, I saw the plastic ‘sleeve’ that remains after the needle is removed and it was ^^^^^^^^, as in crinkled.

That wrist has constantly bothered me, and has became worse now on Prednisone for about 6 months. While in hospital this time, I was sent to a Dr. C. who tested me and the results told him that I had CTS. He then explained the surgery procedure. Meanwhile I am wearing a tensor bandage around my wrist and it relieves, somewhat, the numb and tingling sensation that has ended up in my thumb, forefinger, middle finger and part of ring finger……… after all these years on computer?

I say I don’t have CTS, per se, (my own Dr. agrees) but that there was nerve damage from the needle job, yet resembles CTS.

Any ideas?

X
Izzy

[Meh]

Gosh,

I have a little bit of Carpel Tunnel Syndrome from always having computer aided job tasks. Admin jobs do that. I've never been treated for it, some people wear braces on their wrists some people do get surgery I think. It's something that I don't believe is correctable really it seems more like a degenerative type of process from bad use of the body rather than an injury.

Some doctors are not specialists, not sure what kind of doctor you have but that is the only thing I can think of. If he doesn't know you could try to see a different specialist.

[Izzy_*now*]

Thanks GBean

Do you have any pain or tingling? do you wear a splint of any kind?
Iz

[Meh]

No Izzy I do not have it that bad nor do I have good insurance so I wouldn't be treated for it anyhow.

Sorry    I'm not much help

[Hopalong]

Izz, I'd think your wrists have had an extra-hard job because of the wheelchair,
and the fact that in transfers, aren't you having to use them a lot more than
someone who doesn't have to put all their weight on their arms and wrists?

Maybe the computer, too.

This source suggests the splint at night and ice during the day...and getting
after it early: http://www.webmd.com/pain-management/carpal-tunnel/carpal-tunnel-syndrome-topic-overview


I hope it helps, Izz. Can't imagine you having any further restrictions but
maybe this one could be very temporary....

hope so hops so

xo
Hops

[Izzy_*now*]

Thanks Hops,
..for checking in.

I could surmise that this is a cumulative effect of the wheelchair propulsion & transfers from 1969, plus computer from 1992, just crashing together at the moment the Emergency worker stabbed my wrist, causing the first pain/ache and continued until morning, leaving me with the tingles in the tips of those four digits---hmmm

The TIPS only, not the rest of the fingers and the hand. Does that make a difference in a diagnosis, I wonder? (Any images I open show more of the fingers and palm affected, than mine, are affected.)

Back to a research, and wonder about the Dr. to did the electrical tests and diagnosed me. I cannot quibble with his electricity and results, but he never examined me hands on.

Love
Iz

[Meh]

Sounds to me that the needle stab got a line of nerves and now they are responding IDK. Carpel tunnel feels like sharp pains sometimes and general tightness in the forearms.