I am to see an orthopedic surgeon to schedule carpal tunnel surgery on both hands. Has anyone with CTS had pain with CTS that involves the fingernails & fingertips,forearm,and sometimes elbows? It hurts to touch my fingernails, quite often. Sounds kinda wierd, but it happens! Thanks for any info received.

Never heard of the fingertips being involved, but then, anything is possible with nerves, I guess. By the way, unless you don't have to work and can stay home with help from someone else, I do not recommend you get both hands done at the same time. Just look at the problems some people have had after surgery....I had a relatively uneventful course of events and would have been in a terrible situation if I had not been able to use at least one hand for the "little" things like dressing or bathrooming, etc. Think about it. I had the worse hand done first, and plan to wait until next year, at least, for the other.

If it involves your forearm and elbow then I hope you haven't had the surgery yet. That would be tendonitis and can be helped by active release therapy. Carpal tunnel can also. See under resourse links for a couple of sites I posted on info on active release therapy. Then check your area for physiotherapists or chiropractors who do Active Release Therapy. Beats surgery. Good luck.

Not only could it be tendinitis, but also fibromyalgia. I had surgery on both my hands--one in January 1997 and then in March 1997. Come to find out a lot of people with FMS think they have CTS and find out different later. I have been diagnosed with FMS; I have pain and numbness in all my extremities as well as shoulders. There are times that I can't even walk and don't even think about trying to open jars or lift something heavy. Make sure that you need this surgery first; some things can be corrected by physical therapy. I went through PT when I ended up with cubitol tunnel surgery and it helped a lot.