spokewench
11-16-2006, 11:50 AM
I'm so sick and tired of pain. First, I have a bad back and that is always troublesome, but basically under control. I can deal with that chronic pain
BUT HAND PAIN on top of it, that is just too much
A Couple of years ago I was diagnosed instability in my thumb joints. Riding a mountain bike makes it worse but a lot of things affect the pain. My ortho told me that I should at least have my right hand operated on (i'm right handed and it is the worst hand cause i use it more). However, the rehab and healing is just too much for me to face. They take a tendon (?) from another place like your other arm and put it around the weak joint to hold it in place. Well, you can imagine, you have to be completely immobilized in one arm and hand for like at least a month as I remember and then it is probably at least 6 months (and probably more) before you can like ride a bike or do anything. Also, it would be like 3 months before I could probably go back to work and type, etc. I just couldn't face that time of rehab so I decided to leave it alone and I'm okay sometimes and then sometimes I'm not.
Now, to top it all off, I went surfing in mid-August this year. I was learning how to surf for a 5 day camp and it was a blast. The only problem was that on Tuesday of the weeklong camp I slipped off my board and sprained, wrench my pointer finger and second finger way back. Of course, being me, I did nothing but shake off the initial pain and continued to surf for the rest of the week. The hand blew up like a cantaloupe and was like that for a while. I never gave up surfing, riding, etc. cause I figured it was a bad sprain and would take forever to heal!
Now, it is almost 3 months later and there is still some small swelling around my middle knuckle, if you rub it there is still pain on the underside of the hand and now all of a sudden I am getting pains in the outside heal of my hand especially when I stretch my fingers out and twist my wrist a bit.
I'm going to wait until after Christmas for this dang thing to heal but then I go to the ortho!
Sorry, I just needed to complain about this stupid hand. It is sooooo irritating and you use your hands for everything!!!!!
BUT HAND PAIN on top of it, that is just too much
A Couple of years ago I was diagnosed instability in my thumb joints. Riding a mountain bike makes it worse but a lot of things affect the pain. My ortho told me that I should at least have my right hand operated on (i'm right handed and it is the worst hand cause i use it more). However, the rehab and healing is just too much for me to face. They take a tendon (?) from another place like your other arm and put it around the weak joint to hold it in place. Well, you can imagine, you have to be completely immobilized in one arm and hand for like at least a month as I remember and then it is probably at least 6 months (and probably more) before you can like ride a bike or do anything. Also, it would be like 3 months before I could probably go back to work and type, etc. I just couldn't face that time of rehab so I decided to leave it alone and I'm okay sometimes and then sometimes I'm not.
Now, to top it all off, I went surfing in mid-August this year. I was learning how to surf for a 5 day camp and it was a blast. The only problem was that on Tuesday of the weeklong camp I slipped off my board and sprained, wrench my pointer finger and second finger way back. Of course, being me, I did nothing but shake off the initial pain and continued to surf for the rest of the week. The hand blew up like a cantaloupe and was like that for a while. I never gave up surfing, riding, etc. cause I figured it was a bad sprain and would take forever to heal!
Now, it is almost 3 months later and there is still some small swelling around my middle knuckle, if you rub it there is still pain on the underside of the hand and now all of a sudden I am getting pains in the outside heal of my hand especially when I stretch my fingers out and twist my wrist a bit.
I'm going to wait until after Christmas for this dang thing to heal but then I go to the ortho!
Sorry, I just needed to complain about this stupid hand. It is sooooo irritating and you use your hands for everything!!!!!