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Old September 29th 04, 04:25 PM
Monique Y. Mudama
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On 2004-09-28, Shawn penned:

Cortisone/lidicaine injections? Its not in your PT's toolbox, so they may
be ambivalent or even negative about it. Shots worked well on my elbow
(others here have benefited as well). Ask your doc.


I've wondered about these. I may indeed ask for them.

Dragon Naturally Speaking.


eh?

Seriously, are you protecting it from overuse? Are you taking
your vitamin I or some other anti inflammatory regularly? Decreasing
inflammation helps healing. IIRC you're in your 20s. It'll heal if you let
it. I didn't get my first damaged-for-life injury till I was 30 (everything
else got better before that). Remember ski season's still a few months off.
:-)


Probably not doing a good job of protecting it; was taking aleve for a few
weeks but it didn't seem to help much and I'm not a huge fan of constantly
being on meds. The PT's whole thing right now is trying to get the
inflammation down; she says there's no point in working on the underlying
problem until we get the inflammation down; it will just exacerbate it.

I'm in my 20s, but I've had this wrist issue for close to a year now; it's
faded in and out but never gone away. I also have knee damage from an injury
when I was 18, so I don't quite have faith in the "everything will heal"
concept.

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Old September 29th 04, 04:37 PM
Monique Y. Mudama
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On 2004-09-29, Monique Y. Mudama penned:
On 2004-09-28, Shawn penned:

Cortisone/lidicaine injections? Its not in your PT's toolbox, so they may
be ambivalent or even negative about it. Shots worked well on my elbow
(others here have benefited as well). Ask your doc.


I've wondered about these. I may indeed ask for them.


Have an appt this afternoon to talk to my doc about this.

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Old September 29th 04, 05:29 PM
Shawn
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Monique Y. Mudama wrote:

On 2004-09-28, Shawn penned:

Cortisone/lidicaine injections? Its not in your PT's toolbox, so they may
be ambivalent or even negative about it. Shots worked well on my elbow
(others here have benefited as well). Ask your doc.



I've wondered about these. I may indeed ask for them.


Dragon Naturally Speaking.



eh?


Voice recognition software. If your injury is related to keyboard use
it could help. My wife does her medical dictation using Dragon. It
works well.

Seriously, are you protecting it from overuse? Are you taking
your vitamin I or some other anti inflammatory regularly? Decreasing
inflammation helps healing. IIRC you're in your 20s. It'll heal if you let
it. I didn't get my first damaged-for-life injury till I was 30 (everything
else got better before that). Remember ski season's still a few months off.
:-)



Probably not doing a good job of protecting it; was taking aleve for a few
weeks but it didn't seem to help much and I'm not a huge fan of constantly
being on meds. The PT's whole thing right now is trying to get the
inflammation down; she says there's no point in working on the underlying
problem until we get the inflammation down; it will just exacerbate it.


Vioxx. Once or twice a day, kind to the stomach, expensive as hell.
Huge fan or not, meds help. Also cortisone's purpose is to decrease
inflammation.

I'm in my 20s, but I've had this wrist issue for close to a year now; it's
faded in and out but never gone away. I also have knee damage from an injury
when I was 18, so I don't quite have faith in the "everything will heal"
concept.


Not to be gloomy, but you'd be better off doing your best to improve
things now (not that you're not) rather than waiting till your forty.

Shawn
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Old September 29th 04, 11:45 PM
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"Monique Y. Mudama" wrote in
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Well, I talked to my doc today. I asked her about shots; she said
they'd be the next logical step, but that she isn't confident about
finding the right spot; apparently they have to be done with a great
deal of precision. Anyway, she's referred me to a hand specialist who
she says is really good, and I'll be seeing him in a couple of weeks.
She also mentioned acupuncture, saying that a lot of people rave about
it for tendon-related issues, but of course that's outside of
insurance. (Not sure about the flexible spending acct, though ...)
If more conventional western means don't do the trick, I'll try the
needle route.


Specialist hand clinics often help here; I've been to one which had hand
surgeons (of all varieties, plastic, general and ortho) and specialist hand
physios. Another possible person to consult is a rheumatologist or a pain
specialist (who is often a rheumatologist anyhow, or else an anaesthetist).
They're usually pretty good at getting the needles in the right spot.


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Old September 30th 04, 02:29 AM
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qtq wrote:
"Monique Y. Mudama" wrote in
:

Well, I talked to my doc today. I asked her about shots; she said
they'd be the next logical step, but that she isn't confident about
finding the right spot; apparently they have to be done with a great
deal of precision. Anyway, she's referred me to a hand specialist
who she says is really good, and I'll be seeing him in a couple of
weeks. She also mentioned acupuncture, saying that a lot of people
rave about it for tendon-related issues, but of course that's
outside of insurance. (Not sure about the flexible spending acct,
though ...) If more conventional western means don't do the trick,
I'll try the needle route.



You can use your fsa/msa for alternative treatments like Accupunture etc.
It's on the list, and since it's a federally mandated program, we should
have the same list.

I've used massage extensively to treat overuse and pre-carpal tunnel with my
hands.

penny




 




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