QuoteReplyTopic: Dangit! Wrist pain Posted: Jul/08/2010 at 8:25am
Well, turns out I managed to hurt my wrist pretty good, I can't even hold my book open with my thumb! It started to hurt after I gardened like crazy, and while at home, I have it wrapped with a bandana so I don't move the wrist, but it's my left wrist/hand and I'm a leftie, so this is ridiculous! It was bad enough that I couldn't sleep two nights in a row from it throbbing and burning, and worsens whenever I use it.
My Dad's had carpal tunnel surgery so I asked him what to do and if it was in the same area. Since my middle finger's not hurting just pointy and thumb, then base of thumb and wrist it sounds a lot like tendonitis of the wrist. I've always had weak wrists and sprain them easy, so I guess I'll have to strengthen them once it improves. I have both arthritis's in my family RA and OA as well. SO, the longest post length writer here next to Lin is going to have to ice and not use it much, and I may have to limit computer time. Meanwhile, all that gardening was prep and I still have to get the plants in all the containers I set up right-handed somehow before it's back in the 100's, so not quite sure what I'll do. I really hope it goes away soon, it's swollen with nerve pain so I think I really flared it up and it's compressing what looks like the radial nerve (yea yea, I researched and stared at anatomy pics, you know me!).
Any ideas to help it would be great, I'm getting jolts in it from typing so this is my last post for now.
Kat
1991 Disc Excision L5-S1 for herniated disc.
1996 During routine laparoscopy for endometriosis, had multiple pelvic and bladder nerves burned, resulting in neuralgia and dysfunction of nerves & organs in left pelvis, leg, groin, etc.. Have tried many treatments with varying success.
4/28&30/08 ALIF & PLIF L4-S1 for congenital stenosis, re-herniation,disk tears.
4/27/2009 Hardware removal surgery
Oh my what have you done now KitKat? So you hurt your wrist from gardening? Was it from just the repetitive motions, or did you actually feel something at a certain time? How about using a tensor bandage or one of those wrist braces, they're fairly cheap at a drug store? If it's swollen definitely the icing as you already know, but I'm afraid that's all I can come up with for you sweetie.
Good luck gardening with the right hand, and let us know how the leftie is doing? Rest it too, so use of the right hand for typing do like Mr Tink two fingers, sometimes one, lol!!
Take care honey, love ya! Tink
L1/L2 protrusion with a piece migrating
L4/L5 small bulge
L5/S1 bone on bone, non-operable
DDD and osteoarthritis
2000 disc herniation L5-S1 had micro discectomy, failed. Right leg/foot numbness & sciatica. Permanent nerve damage in right leg/foot along with radiculopathy and neuropathic pain and Drop foot.
SI Joint & Facet Joint Injections with some relief.
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Speaking from a wealth of experience when it comes to Carpal Tunnel, it doesn't sound like its CTS. It does sound more like tendonitis. I'd elevate and ice for a few days and if that doesn't work, have it looked at by a real doctor, not someone like me who played doctor often as a child. I grew up thinking "turn your head and cough" was a form of foreplay.
Dick
Five knee surgeries from 1970 to 2000. Knee replacement in 2000.Spinal stenosis surgery in May of 2002. Diagnosed with Pseudogout in 2005, effecting hands, knees, and shoulders. Emergency surgery in March of 2006 for spinal infection of L 2 and L 3. During surgery, discovered I had Cauda Equina Syndrome. Spine became unstable after surgery and had 360 fusion with 10 pedicle screws, plates and rods in April of 2007. Retired early as a high school principal. Recently, have had trigger finger surgery on both hands as well as surgery for severe bi-lateral Carpal Tunnel disease.
I'm with the others. Sounds like a bad sprain which has caused tendon or ligament injury.
If ice, elevation and compression don't help after a few days do have it looked at preferably by an OS. You may need a cortisone injection. Yeah----OUCH:(((. Stevie
Spinal Fusions L5-S1 and L4-L5. Cervical DDD, stenosis, spondylosis, spondylolisthesis and facet arthropathy throughout cervical spine from C3-C7. Tiny cervical syrinx. Thoracic Spine: dextroconvex curvature of the thoracic spine, centered at approximately T8.(Scoliosis with 20 degree curve). At T7-8, a disc bulge. Hemangiomatas from T7-T10. Degenerative disc disease T7-T9. Disc dessication from T3-T11.
Kat, I'm not sure if it's the same, but I sometimes get a flare up very low down in my thumb joint where it meets my wrist, and it's like an old RSI injury that is really really painful when it get aggravated. It's been pretty good recently because I haven't been walking as much therefore not putting so much strain on my hands, but it can be something as simple as using the garden pruners that can set it off. When it's giving me trouble I use warming muscle rubs on it, anti-inflammatory gel and wear a tubi-grib bandage over it with a little hole cut for my thumb. That seems to help it until things settle. Hope yours eases up soon sweetie, you have more than enough going on without this adding to it!
Hugs, Spicey
37 yrs old, chronic pain since 1993
Decompression/stabilisation with Dynesys Apr'04, revision with PLIF Oct'08, several ESI's.
Still suffering with bilateral nerve pains in legs, plus in neck, arms & hands since Jul'09. SCS installed Apr'10. No significant improvement yet
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Thank you all for writing with advice! Dick, my heart goes out to you even more now, this is such a pain! I can only imagine how bad yours hurt. I've been calling my Dad a lot for advice too, you're lucky I don't have your phone #! I rested it for the week, got a wrap since my Dad's bringing two lefty wrist braces tomorrow for me to use from before an after his CT surgery. The pressure from the wrap hurts quite a bit (no, my fingers aren't purple!), so if I don't put it on my thumb and in between, it's not as bad and keeps the wrist straight at least.
It was a little better so I tried to do some right-handed gardening work for the first time in a week. I'm one of those lefties who feels like my right arm is just to support things and am clumsy with it, so this is tough! It's hurting a lot now- it's been years since I strained/sprained it as it used to happen when I lifted weights at the gym for some reason, but I even went through my Grays Anatomy book (try that with one hand!) and it does seem to be hurting where ligaments are and may be squeezing the nerve on that end (not carpal, radial I think??). It's swollen, but still the same color. Right now the wrist is worse, with some numbness in the 2 fingers. It's the wrist, palm, very bottom of web between fingers. I actually wouldn't mind a shot, it's not responding to my meds and I don't know if I can take IB Profen w/ my aspirin and Roboxin plus mobic. I don't have enough mobic to increase so been taking more Roboxin.
Thanx for your help, this really stinks since typing hurts so much! I know even if it was the right it'd be tough. Stuff like getting a 12 pack of D. Pepsi out of trunk and it ripping and rolling and spraying all over garage keeps happening too- just has to, right??? Hopefully the brace will help, and I'll put the wrist guard back once it's here (really small desk space). LOL on foreplay! I am late going to family doctor as it is, so would have to do blood tests first and have a full exam (dreading the female part of it!)to go there, which is why I hope to wake up and feel great soon! BTW, getting helpers tomorrow w/ potting my plants, whew! I'm sucky gardener this yr!
Kat
1991 Disc Excision L5-S1 for herniated disc.
1996 During routine laparoscopy for endometriosis, had multiple pelvic and bladder nerves burned, resulting in neuralgia and dysfunction of nerves & organs in left pelvis, leg, groin, etc.. Have tried many treatments with varying success.
4/28&30/08 ALIF & PLIF L4-S1 for congenital stenosis, re-herniation,disk tears.
4/27/2009 Hardware removal surgery
Hi Kat,
Thats too bad about your wrist Kat. I've been having wrist problems but It's not Carpal
tunnel, but I'm not sure what it is. My Doc tells me to sleep w the brace on my hand,
it's one of thoes that you put your thumb through the thumb opening and it keeps the
wrist from moving all over the place. My wrist feels better when the brace is on. I hope
your wrist starts to feel better and I hope you won't have to have surgery on it.
.
Roni
1st injured Feb, 1997. Was told it was "Soft Tissue" and sent back to work - no X-rays
Late 1997 attended 1st “Rehab Program” to strengthen back. Mid ‘98 PCP took me off work. Tried going back to work over the next couple years, mostly off work due to pain.
June 2000, met with OS for first time. Did MRI , damage was L5-S1 totally blown out. Surgery done Jan, 2001.
Another Rehab program late 2001, attempted to go back to work early 2002. Slipped on water, fell flat on back – screw fusion broke.
Went to 3rd Rehab program summer 2002.
Oct 2003 – 2nd Surgery, due to broken screw, had to operate from the front.
No improvement. Attended 4th Rehab program in 2004, at time it was decided NO work.
March 2006, had 3rd Surgery, this time fusion and instrumentation from Si to L3.
June 2008 Surgeon finally admitted I had Failed Back Surgery.
August 2009 WCB Finally put me on Long Term Disability
Kat, I am a lefty too, and I know how it is when you suddenly can't use it. I had chronic tendonitis in my right wrist as an adolescent, I had to have surgery twice on it. Ice, elevation, and rest are the best things for it. I used to find running cold water from the faucet over the area that hurt was good too. SOmething about the water beating over the area increased blood flow a bit to get theings feeling good. Like a whirlpool therapy, but in your kitchen sink.
Good luck, I hope it heals quickly.
"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win." - Jonathan Kozol
DDD, 3 bulging discs one cervical, one thoracic, one lumbar. Periphial neuropathy. Undiagnosed pain rt. side of face, ear &jaw. Will update when diagnosis is known.
Haven't heard from you in awhile and am concerned that your wrist pain is keeping you from typing, or that your nerve pain has flared again.
So, if it is your wrist and you can't type, would you just hit the "crying emoticon" to let us know that you are (well not OK), but are (kind of OK)? LOL, makes no sense, but am worried about you.
Lots of hugs and love, Stevie
Spinal Fusions L5-S1 and L4-L5. Cervical DDD, stenosis, spondylosis, spondylolisthesis and facet arthropathy throughout cervical spine from C3-C7. Tiny cervical syrinx. Thoracic Spine: dextroconvex curvature of the thoracic spine, centered at approximately T8.(Scoliosis with 20 degree curve). At T7-8, a disc bulge. Hemangiomatas from T7-T10. Degenerative disc disease T7-T9. Disc dessication from T3-T11.
1st injured Feb, 1997. Was told it was "Soft Tissue" and sent back to work - no X-rays
Late 1997 attended 1st “Rehab Program” to strengthen back. Mid ‘98 PCP took me off work. Tried going back to work over the next couple years, mostly off work due to pain.
June 2000, met with OS for first time. Did MRI , damage was L5-S1 totally blown out. Surgery done Jan, 2001.
Another Rehab program late 2001, attempted to go back to work early 2002. Slipped on water, fell flat on back – screw fusion broke.
Went to 3rd Rehab program summer 2002.
Oct 2003 – 2nd Surgery, due to broken screw, had to operate from the front.
No improvement. Attended 4th Rehab program in 2004, at time it was decided NO work.
March 2006, had 3rd Surgery, this time fusion and instrumentation from Si to L3.
June 2008 Surgeon finally admitted I had Failed Back Surgery.
August 2009 WCB Finally put me on Long Term Disability
Just heard from Kat, and she is still having a terrible time with her wrist pain.
She hasn't been able to get in to see her Dr. yet, so has been doing everything she can think of such as icing, massage, and bracing it. She says that it really hurts to type with the brace, and without it, it feels like someone has taken a sledgehammer to it. So, she has been trying to rest it as much as possible.
She does hope to see her Dr. for her PE soon, and hopes that possibly her Dr. will be able to give her a cortisone injection. Anyhow, she is hoping to be back on the forums possibly by this weekend to do a few short posts.
So, Kat, please feel better and we will see you here whenever you are physically up to it. Oh, I have a suggestion? You can use the emoticons as much as possible, just hit one or two from time to time to let us know that you are here!!! Hugs, Stevie
Spinal Fusions L5-S1 and L4-L5. Cervical DDD, stenosis, spondylosis, spondylolisthesis and facet arthropathy throughout cervical spine from C3-C7. Tiny cervical syrinx. Thoracic Spine: dextroconvex curvature of the thoracic spine, centered at approximately T8.(Scoliosis with 20 degree curve). At T7-8, a disc bulge. Hemangiomatas from T7-T10. Degenerative disc disease T7-T9. Disc dessication from T3-T11.
I hope your doctor can see you soon, pain like that just isn't normal, not for this long, it's been a few weeks right?
Take care
love and hugs
"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win." - Jonathan Kozol
DDD, 3 bulging discs one cervical, one thoracic, one lumbar. Periphial neuropathy. Undiagnosed pain rt. side of face, ear &jaw. Will update when diagnosis is known.
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I've been calling my Dad a lot for advice too, you're lucky I don't have your phone #! 
I rested it for the week, got a wrap since my Dad's bringing two lefty wrist braces tomorrow for me to use from before an after his CT surgery. The pressure from the wrap hurts quite a bit (no, my fingers aren't purple!), so if I don't put it on my thumb and in between, it's not as bad and keeps the wrist straight at least. 
1st injured Feb, 1997. Was told it was "Soft Tissue" and sent back to work - no X-rays
