Carpal Tunnel

[Ban Hammer 13,692]

pick it up in my right hand years ago..thanks to miss february

vj gave me carpal tunnel

yeah right, nothing to do with your former porn collection ?

[KiKi 0]

Might be worth asking to see a neurologist.

The twitching is not usually a feature of CT.....I'd have it checked, ask for a nerve conduction study.

[Aymerlu 3]

I've had it for quite a while too. I had the right hand released about 5 years ago and haven't had problems with it since. My left hand has been acting up for a while now. Thinking about getting that one worked on one of these days.

[Amby 490]

I've had carpal tunnel for 4-5yrs and I've had cortisone injections in my wrists twice but the last time was almost 3yrs ago. The past few weeks my hands (mainly the left one) have been going crazy twitching to the point where I can't stop it and it is very painful. I think I posted a few weeks ago that I dropped a massive thing of eggs down my stairs because my hand just stopped working and I couldn't grip the bowl they were in. At the beginning of this week my thumb on my left hand started twitching uncontrollably. It's so freaking painful. My whole forearm twitches almost like a muscle spasm down by my wrist. I stopped the doctor for a second to show him because he was super busy when I went in to weigh today and I said I have a question about my carpal tunnel look at my thumb. He said "wow that is really weird". I'm getting cortisone shots on Monday but I was just curious if anyone else has had this problem with carpal tunnel before OR if anyone thinks it could be something else?

Has your doctor discuss carpal tunnel release surgery with you? I only ask because I work for an insurance company, where CTS is common for certain types of occupations. Typically when cortisone injections, splinting and physical therapy has been exhausted the physician recommends the surgery. I've heard of really great results. Might be something that you want to discuss with your doc. I live in Canada, so I just assume that its available in the States too (no reason why it wouldn't be).

Good luck!

We discussed the surgery but since I don't have insurance it really isn't an option for me right now unless I absolutely have to have it done. I think I may look into the cost of the surgery without insurance just for future reference.

[yogib37 3]

I think I have a mild case. Since leaving Aviation it is not so bad but sometimes it gets numb. it happend even if I had a few washers to put on the plane, I could just put on my hand and in a few minutes my had and fingers were numb. Now that is no weight really so I dont know.

I been tested for it by eleccutied and it detrimed that I dont have it

Yogi

[eric&gen 0]

What are the signs of carpal tunnel? my left hand is sore i use it quite often in the mornings.

[Empress of Groovy 373]

What are the signs of carpal tunnel? my left hand is sore i use it quite often in the mornings.

Eric, I keep tellin' ya, the Accu-Jack!