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I have a wrist brace with a metal support that I tried. It hurts worse than using nothing. I called the doc to ask if a steroid shot would help but he's out of town today. I can't get him until Monday. Oh, never mind my comment above.
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Indeed the *&%$#! Good luck Rocky. I have had two shots for snogo throttle thumb and, I guess, drywalling the second time, but doc says if there is a next time it's the knife. For the thumb, he says there are two tendons that run through the tunnel, but some people have 3. Don't know if I do. The first shot relieved me in a few hours, it was several days for the second one to get to 100% relief. Wore the wrist thing, too. It helped some, not a lot until I was able to get the shot. For the second time, I fhad to see my non-specialist provider and get a referral to the specialist (went straight to him the first time. I think they have a money-thing going), and it was 6 weeks before I could see the specialist. That sucked. I am getting arthritis in my knuckles, varicose veins are coming back a little, going to the chiropracter later this morning, I am borderline ADD (wasn't told which side of the border!) and I ain't too smart. Got sawdust in my eyes last week - wear goggles dummy! Wanna see my scars?
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Both my wrists acted up last fall, primary cause was too much driving. Started wearing braces while driving and frequent stretching, and hands and wrists are back to normal for four months now.
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Get the steroid injections to get your cabinets finished and then surgery after that
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Shot heavy recoiling handguns on military teams and civilian competition for 50+ years. So had a hand and foot reconstruction surgeon do the job. Found out the longer you allow nerve damage to go the worse it gets and the more damage done pluse more permanent it becomes. Add on to that, that the longer the the surgury takes, like open to air, the more damage done to nerves. So be very careful about whom does the surgury, ask how many done in a year and the time it takes to do them, ask before, mine was a thousand and 9 minutes. I had 6 weeks of recovery and rehab. Tender, but was back to shooting big bore silhouette in 90 days, at production International Class. With a padded glove.
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Both my wrists acted up last fall, primary cause was too much driving. Started wearing braces while driving and frequent stretching, and hands and wrists are back to normal for four months now. To me, that sounds more like tendonitis. That affects the tendons while carpal tunnel hits the nerve. Tendonitis will go away, especially if you wear wrist braces. I've had it many times and I can tell the difference. This is totally different.
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Both my wrists acted up last fall, primary cause was too much driving. Started wearing braces while driving and frequent stretching, and hands and wrists are back to normal for four months now. To me, that sounds more like tendonitis. That affects the tendons while carpal tunnel hits the nerve. Tendonitis will go away, especially if you wear wrist braces. I've had it many times and I can tell the difference. This is totally different. Tendonitis doesn’t tingle, doesn’t wake you up because it’s worse at night, and gets worse with stretching.
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It does not sound like carpel tunnel. I could be wrong. When I had it , it took years to get bad.. It did get bad enough that when I would swing a hammer , it would fall out of my hand and then look around cause I couldn't find my hammer and never even felt it leave my hand.. I still get it, but I do excersizes that help.. Just put both hand straight out , and pull your bad wrist back and use your fingers to pull the wrist back.. It really helps.. It is hard to explain how to though.
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