Carpal Tunnel?

[Dr. Doom]

A couple days ago, I woke up after having slept on my arms sorta funny. They were kinda numb and all, yanno, it happens. However, since then I've been experiancing some stiffness and soreness in my hands; mostly the right hand and mostly in the lower parts of my fingers. I was doing some reserach last night and wasn't really able to come to a definitive conclusion. There's a test you're supposed to perform on yourself that's a way of knowing if you have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome wherein you hold the backs of your hands together and facing down for 30-60 seconds. If you experiance pain, numbness, tingling, that sort of thing, then it's a yes. Problem for me is my hands are feeling like that somewhat constantly so I wasn't able to draw much of a conclusion. Anyways, I thought I'd get some opinions on it.... I'm mostly confused why this just popped up over night (and if the fact that my jaw was feeling similarly sore and stiff last night had anything to do with it. My mom said it might be my wisdom teeth. :\ ).

[GK Punk]

before I answer, do you play any instruments with that hand, such as guitar or bass etc? (I've been through several hand injuries, so I'm trying to narrow this down.)

[Dr. Doom]

Nope. Just lots of typing, mouse clicking and gaming.

[GK Punk]

I'm having a hard time trying to describe the pain from Carpal Tunnel. When you bend your wrist to type, does it feel like all of the muscles in your hand are severley sore?

It almost sounds like Carpal Tunnel to me,(except the jaw part) and I'd see a doctor quickly. Advance stages of it can require surgery. When I had my wisdom teeth removed I wasn't feeling any pains in my hands so I'm not familiar what that would feel like.

Also, check your wrists up through to your palms for any bumps that could possibly a cyst.

[Dr. Doom]

It's just sort of a general feeling, really. I don't notice much of a difference when I'm typing and when I'm just laying there scratching myself or whatever. Maybe it increases a little bit, but certainly nothing dramatic. I should also note that now there's less of a stiffness and more of a soreness. But none of this is in my wrist, it's all pretty much localized to the lower parts of the fingers on my right hand, mostly the 2 middle fingers. Also, I don't really notice any cysts. I guess what I'm hoping for is that I like messed up my ahnds when I slept on 'em funny or something and that they'll eventually just feel better.

[GK Punk]

Ok, if it's carpal tunnel that sounds like a pretty light case. (Otherwise, you'd hurt like hell when moving your hand in certain ways.) To me, it kind of does sound like carpal tunnel (Except when I went to the doctor my wrist hurt as well, but that could have been just my case.) Try resting your hands for a day, or a good few hours and see if the stiffness and soreness dies down.

Edit: and if you have a hand brace laying around the house (Your regular drug store type) try wearing it to see if it helps any

[Peanut]

Sounds like a light case of CT. I use a computer at my job, then come home and play games and use the computer more, so I've gotten it. Never seriously though, thank God.

[Dr. Doom]

Is it something that comes and goes?

[愛]

It could develop into something bad if you don't do something about it.

[Jo Dawn]

I agree with Light Carpal tunnel... or even slight arthritis. Since you have no cysts or other signs of CT, I'd almost be more apt to go with arthritis or even just that you slept on them wrong, which also can very well be.

[Anarky]

Just a little something: Why does it have to be a disease? You people are always going "Oh god, you're so dead" even if it's just a mild cold. If it's a cold it's gotta be SARS or Aids or whatnot. Why can't Doom just have some discomfort from longer periods of not having a good blood circulation to his hands?

... Right, because something that simple doesn't exist. Doom's indeed doomed. He must be.

And for the record, I had the same thing Doom had billions of times already and I'm still not dead. But I gotta be, because it's Carpal Aids with cancer and a batarang sticking in my head.

[GK Punk]

How did I Know when I saw your name posted the last response, it would be you bitching about something?
And Who said he was going to die? Carpal tunnel is a very common thing, most people have it. And I don't even think it's a disease, it's a hand injury.

[Spitfire]

Surprised no one made any masterbation jokes. <_< lol anywho I hope you feel better! My Mom got it from working and they had to operate on her and it was a huge deal. So get it looked at if you can.

Either way feel better

[Brodie]

I was gonna make with the beating off jokes, but I couldnt....Nutso.

[Katie]

I don't get carpal tunnel, but I do get wrist rest syndrome....really similar except it affects the other nerve that runs through your wrist. you know how you can tell the difference? Carpal tunnel makes your index and middle finger numb...wrist rest numbs your ring and pinky finger.

sounds to me, Doom, that you have pinched both if your two middle fingers are tingling.

sleeping with a brace on for a couple days usually clears my pain up. :D Good luck!

[Peanut]

Is it something that comes and goes?

Yep. Comes and goes. Sometimes I'm at work and I'm typing away and I just feel my wrists start to sting, my finger joints feel like their locking and any large movements with my hands will give me a sharp pain. I just go home and avoid doing anything but the most basic of tasks with my hands and I ice them down a bit. Sometimes my wrist swells a bit, but my doctor said that's just from the akward way have to rest them on my desk when I work. 6 months later they still haven't given me anything to rest my wrists on, or given me a larger desk to work with. :cry:

Pointless bitching

Dude, where did anywhere say he was going to die? And who said he had some disease and his arms were going to fall off or something? Everyone is just telling him that if it's really bugging him and he hurts all the time to go see a doctor to be safe. Maybe we don't want a friend to get hurt? I know it's hard for you to understand friendship, since you're such a hardcore, bad ass, unconforming, anti-social lone wolf, but some of us would rather have people we know be safe rather than sorry.

[iris]

Doom, could be that you just strained something when you 'slept funny.' If it doesn't go away soon... I'd try some of the 'carpal tunnel alleviation' stuff... proper posture, wrist position, etc. What helped me was learning to hold my wrists properly, wearing a wrist guard at night... and well just refraining from typing and mousing so freaking much.

[Hannah]

TOO MUCH FAPPING







I'm so original.

[Dr. Doom]

-=Beats her with a shoe=-

Thank you for all the advice. The pain seems to sort of be fluxuating. Right now I'm feeling it in the part of my hand right below my pinky and a little on the underside of my upper arm. I've even felt apin in my neck and legs. I really don't know what to make of it...it's most consistant in my hands though. I'll definately go to a doctor and get checked out.

[Jo Dawn]

Neck, huh?

Slipped disk. Go get it checked out, they can fix it right quick for you. :)

[Anarky]

Dude, where did anywhere say he was going to die? And who said he had some disease and his arms were going to fall off or something? Everyone is just telling him that if it's really bugging him and he hurts all the time to go see a doctor to be safe. Maybe we don't want a friend to get hurt?
Or maybe you're scaring him even more than he is. See, when you sleep on your arms or have something that just blocks the blood circulation to your hands for a longer period of time, your body shuts down some of the functions of your hands so that they don't fall off. Now, of course some nerves are going to die in that process and your hand gets numb. Then you wake up with a numb hand and it's gotta get back to be fully operational within seconds, which it does. Thing is, you still have some dead nerves in your hands and arms. Those need time to regenerate, obviously and that can cause some pain. I've had that quite a number of times.

And the pain in the neck is probably just a stiff neck because he was sleeping in a really weird position. That's also something that comes when you sleep on your arms. It will all be over in a couple of days.

And the part about everything being a really bad disease including a considerable amount of pain is just something I noticed. Everytime someone mentions that he or she's got an upset tummy, it's Ebola or whatever he or she suggested it could be. I just don't think that upsetting people even more when they're scared is a good idea. And especially not when it's something this trivial.

Maybe it's a cultural thing that people from north america think they're having something at least lethal when it's nothing. Like a collective hypochondria, I dunno. Like we get our knickers in a twist whenever someone debates swiss neutrality or something. Collective hysteria or something...

[Dr. Doom]

The neck thing was fleeting. Like I said, it seems like it's in flux. The pain will move from my wrist to my arm to my neck to my head to my foot etc etc, not in that order. I don't necessarily think anything's wrong with my neck in particular.

[Dr. Doom]

Well it's better at this point, but still not completely gone. Last night I got into a heated arguement and I typed so much that my arm was just killing me afterwards, pretty much from my elbow stretching into my pinky finger (only my pinky finger). I'm at work now and my elbow's still bothering me quite a bit.

[iris]

Try using a cold pack, Doom. Put it on your wrist/joints. If it is carpal tunnel, that will reduce inflammation and provide some relief. If it isn't, it shouldn't do any harm (stop if there's more pain) and might still help.

And I think Anarky is mostly right. When you've got a specific cause to point to for the complaint, like sleeping funny, it probably has something to do with that. I would just wait to see if it gets better on its own (instead of assuming chronic illness and slipped disks). But then again, I don't go to the doctor for hardly anything, even things that should require stitches and/or meds, so maybe I'm not the best person to talk.

This does sound a lot like carpal tunnel though. Considering that carpal tunnel is caused by swelling around nerves in the wrist caused by putting your wrist at an awkward unnatural angle, it's possible that it's just about the same thing as carpal tunnel, only caused a different way.

[Sewer Bull]

Last night I got into a heated arguement and I typed so much that my arm was just killing me afterwards

I find this sentence ridiculously funny.

I also think that the mods should stick this thread and re-name it to "The Drome Hospital" so we could write here about all our illnesses, diseases, injuries, car crashes, twisted ankles etc., ask for some healthy tips of advice and find the warm and comforting words of a friendly consolation here.

BTW - thanks to the medicaments I take, the vision in my right eye has slightly improved and I'm a bit happier now... if anyone cares.

*sits in the corner and cuts himself*

[Katie]

*snatches the blade away from Bull and bandages his boo boos*

It's GREAT that the meds are working for you! Things are going to work out great, I just know it!!! :D

[Dr. Doom]

I'd like to suggest "The Infirmary" as the thread's title. Either that or something relevant to one of America's famous medical shows. Like "Drome's Anatomy" for example.

[Peanut]

How about "Emo Hangout" subtitled "come here to whine and complain until you get attention"...oh wait...Cafe thread. Whoops.

[Dr. Doom]

Got 'em, I guess. LoL

[Sewer Bull]

How about "Emo Hangout" subtitled "come here to whine and complain until you get attention"...oh wait...Cafe thread. Whoops.

The more the merrier.