Hand stuff
Mar. 3rd, 2006 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mamadebI just made an appointment with my primary physician. For Sunday at 12:30.
I'm overdue anyway for blood tests and weighings and such.
But that's not why I'm doing it. I'm doing it because my fingers are getting numb and tingly.
I can feel, but it's like doing it through a glove. I can sense temperature and texture and such. I can type just fine.
I've had carpal tunnel for twenty years, since I spent a couple of weeks building boxes using a pneumatic staple gun. Which was fun, but I had a hard time taking notes in class a week after I finished. Since then, holding things in my right hand might make it numb and needlework and games like Blockout made it worse.
This sort of feels like that, but it also doesn't. A finger will get a painful tingle at the top and then it will get numb. This is scary. Again, it hasn't limited my ability do things like write or cook or grip or anything.
At this point, I suspect it's the knitting, since my left hand is also having this problem. I haven't knitted in a week, though, and there's no signs of improvement. Just the opposite - left pinky is getting tingly. Still, I think a pinched nerve is the most likley problem.
On the other hand, I've been a Type II diabetic for six years now, and I'm far from perfect in diet. So it could also be neuropathy. I googled about it last night.
The technical name is "finger parethesis", which means tingling in the fingers." Uh. yeah.
Anyway, I've made the appointment with the doctor. This means I don't need to be nagged about it. :)
I'm overdue anyway for blood tests and weighings and such.
But that's not why I'm doing it. I'm doing it because my fingers are getting numb and tingly.
I can feel, but it's like doing it through a glove. I can sense temperature and texture and such. I can type just fine.
I've had carpal tunnel for twenty years, since I spent a couple of weeks building boxes using a pneumatic staple gun. Which was fun, but I had a hard time taking notes in class a week after I finished. Since then, holding things in my right hand might make it numb and needlework and games like Blockout made it worse.
This sort of feels like that, but it also doesn't. A finger will get a painful tingle at the top and then it will get numb. This is scary. Again, it hasn't limited my ability do things like write or cook or grip or anything.
At this point, I suspect it's the knitting, since my left hand is also having this problem. I haven't knitted in a week, though, and there's no signs of improvement. Just the opposite - left pinky is getting tingly. Still, I think a pinched nerve is the most likley problem.
On the other hand, I've been a Type II diabetic for six years now, and I'm far from perfect in diet. So it could also be neuropathy. I googled about it last night.
The technical name is "finger parethesis", which means tingling in the fingers." Uh. yeah.
Anyway, I've made the appointment with the doctor. This means I don't need to be nagged about it. :)
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Date: 2006-03-05 02:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-05 03:02 pm (UTC)I found the compression glove thing because I needed a wrist support for a bit. See, I usually push anything around my wrist up towards my elbow when I'm working. I pick my shirts for either roll-up sleeves (regular shirts) or if t-shirts, don't stretch completely out when pushed up there. I knew any of the usual wrist band support would wind up there, sooner or later. So when I had to get one, I got one with a glove attached so that it would stay where it needed to be. The side benefit was it helped with the swelling.