Concerns about CTS pains - Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Message Board

IGAGIRL · 12-27-2000, 06:10 PM

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.

cwalker · 12-28-2000, 05:43 AM

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.

JB* · 01-06-2001, 11:17 AM

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.

Charlie Weaver · 01-12-2001, 04:34 PM

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.