Posted: 5/18/2016 11:20:02 AM EDT
| Have any of you had "trigger finger" or "trigger thumb"? Real question here. Google it. |
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Yes I have had it! On both hands and it is a real bitch being a mechanic! I had in office surgery on my right hand to relieve the catching, it worked but takes awhile for it to heal where you don't notice it though. On the left hand I did stretching exercise with applied heat, took a few months but it worked.
After the surgery on my right hand I hand alot of nerve pain and the DR put me on Lyrica did that for 9 days and threw the rest away! Made me dizzy and felt like crap rather have hand pain. If I could do it all over again I would go another route on the hand surgery, they did it with needles no cutting of the hand. The other way is they cut the hand go in and slit the guide that the tendon go thru then a few staples and your done. |
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Thanks for the info everybody. I am going to have to make a decision on course of action if it does not go away with the usual torture regiment I am assigned when something starts to hurt. Those torture methods have helped me avoid a couple of surgeries. We will see next Thursday. I worked with power tools, hand tools and wrenching in my teens, 20's, and 30's.
It feels good right now (cocktails flowing). Mornings the last 4 days were very odd. It felt like a dislocated thunb without the extreme pain. Moderate pain at best I would say. Doc says don't ignore hand pain. The damage can get very bad when it does not really have to be. |
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Thanks for the info everybody. I am going to have to make a decision on course of action if it does not go away with the usual torture regiment I am assigned when something starts to hurt. Those torture methods have helped me avoid a couple of surgeries. We will see next Thursday. I worked with power tools, hand tools and wrenching in my teens, 20's, and 30's. It feels good right now (cocktails flowing). Mornings the last 4 days were very odd. It felt like a dislocated thunb without the extreme pain. Moderate pain at best I would say. Doc says don't ignore hand pain. The damage can get very bad when it does not really have to be. I do not know where your are but if you are close enough to College Station go see Dr. Richardson I am very pleased with his work. |
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I do not know where your are but if you are close enough to College Station go see Dr. Richardson I am very pleased with his work. Quoted:
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Thanks for the info everybody. I am going to have to make a decision on course of action if it does not go away with the usual torture regiment I am assigned when something starts to hurt. Those torture methods have helped me avoid a couple of surgeries. We will see next Thursday. I worked with power tools, hand tools and wrenching in my teens, 20's, and 30's. It feels good right now (cocktails flowing). Mornings the last 4 days were very odd. It felt like a dislocated thunb without the extreme pain. Moderate pain at best I would say. Doc says don't ignore hand pain. The damage can get very bad when it does not really have to be. I do not know where your are but if you are close enough to College Station go see Dr. Richardson I am very pleased with his work. I am in DFW. My family doc will refer me to somebody if it comes to needing a specialist. I hope they are "in network". Obamacare really screwed up the health insurance game. Referrals are not what they used to be. You have to do your own legwork to find an in-network specialist sometimes. |
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Thanks for the input. Doc, orthopaedic surgeon, did the injections a few hours ago. They told me it takes a few weeks to evaluate the results, good or not.
If the problem starts up again I will do the surgery. I am thumb numb now. They said shooting was not the cause of the problem. Could be the decades of power tools though. Thanks again for the input. |