Hospitals
First of all, I didn’t mean to leave it this long with out posting. Suppose I’ve been busy. Not sure what I’ve been busy doing tho.
Anyway, hospitals. Never use to bother me much, they just piss me off these days tho. Spent ages in one last week getting my wrist looked out in regards to an ongoing problem.
A few years ago, ok thinking about it, 9 years ago I broke my right wrist and a few years after broke my thumb joint/tore hand ligaments etc. Right hand’s never been the same since. Assumed problems were down to that. Over the last few years I’ve had more and more problems tho. It’s to the point now that I’ve had to force myself to be ambidextrous, for example I use a computer mouse left handed other wise with in minutes I’m in pain/numbness etc. I get odd tingling sometimes too.
I saw my doctor a bit back and he laughed and told me to stop working with computers and passed it off as RSI. Just been annoying me tho recently with the thought of living with this for ever, so went and saw my new doctor. She’s just brilliant. Referred me straight off the hospital.
So after the normal waiting game with the NHS (and still more waiting games), I get to see a hand specialist at the QMC hospital here in Nottingham. Apparently my doctor had thought it was Carpel Tunnel Syndrome (which I’d read up and could relate to) - doctor at the hospital doesn’t agree tho, and after discussing could understand why. He did an xray tho just to make sure it was nothing to do with my previos broken bones etc - all fine tho 
I remember them nearly pinning my arm as it wasn’t quite straight when I broke it but they decided not to - always made me wonder how it had healed.
He wants me to have an MRI(!) scan on it and “nerve conductivity tests” tho. Thinks I might have a ganglion in there or something. Fun.
I do get pains in my left hand but no where near as much or as bad and have just passed that off as my left hand not being used to doing lots of stuff kind of thing.
We’ll see.. I’m wondering how they do an MRI scan on your hand! Got to wait for appointments for them now 
Geoff Sweeney wrote:
My feeling is that it is not your wrist at all but comming from your neck. (a nerve being pinched)
Go see a chiropractor, a good chiropractor can advise you if the problem is your neck or your wrist.
When I use my other computer where I have to reach out for the mouse and not have my arm supported I get the same problems.
Make sure your posture is straight and arm supported when using the mouse.
A ganglion will show a lump in your wrist, you can see my wrist ganglion here
Posted on 31-Aug-06 at 6:41 am | Permalink
Shell wrote:
The doctor (hand specialist) at the hospital thinks that it may be a ganglion actually on the inside my wrist so you wouldn’t see as per normal. Good point about the neck tho.
Got my MRI scan next Saturday, we’ll see if that turns up anything
Re your comment about reaching out the mouse, yes that makes it worse. Bad when all properly positioned etc tho. Been told by enough different people how to sit at a desk correctly, and enough experience lol
Posted on 02-Sep-06 at 6:24 pm | Permalink