just diagnosed......HELP!!!!! - Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Message Board

lee-ann · 08-13-2001, 04:28 AM

Hello there,

My GP has just diagnosed me with having cts. I am 29 years old and it is in my left hand/wrist, a hand I do not use too often as I am write-handed. I cannot remember having injured it either. The symptoms started about 3 months ago when I would wake up in the morning with really stiff and slightly painful joints in my fingers. It would go away during the course of the day. This lasted a week or so, some days worse than others and then stopped. About three weeks ago it started up again, this time at night as well and much more swollen, stiff, painful etc and in my knuckles as well. I found that I had to continuously massage my knuckles for any kind of relief. Since being diagnosed and put on antinflammatries to see if it would go away the pain has moved down to the wrist and really aches at the base of the thumb and palm. It hurts doing anything using the hand and the pain continues through the day although its not bad enough to take pain killers, just a dull pain to remind me that it's there.
I would like to see someone who can help me more, but some people tend to see neurologists while others see orthopedic surgeons. Which one should I see and where should I go from here? I do not want to have surgery. HELP. Any comments will be gladly appreciated!!!!

Thanks in advance!!!

lamarsky · 08-14-2001, 03:12 PM

I have made a few other posts on this topic.
These Concern the work of Doctor John E. Sarno, M.D.
and his books.
THE MINDBODY PRESCRIPTION is one.
They usually carry it at the Barnes & Noble.
By the way long hands free walks help a lot.
Swing the arm opposite the leg you are bringing forward. This is no joke... It really helps.
It has to do with programming the body and resetting the brain with a 'cross-crawl' pattern.
'Feldenkrais Practicioners' get paid thousands of dollars to help people do just this --And Long walks-even if it is so hot that you must go to the Midland Mall- are free. UTMidland and the colleges campuses are nice, too. Earily morning and dust should not be so hot. Have you checked out the Meteor Crater yet. Take a picture of some one you LOVE and some one who LOVES you and look at it off and on as you walk and during the day. Perhaps, you are a blocked Artist- have you read the 'Artist Way' by Julia Cameron?
I have heard it said that we being into our lives what we fear and what we LOVE. So, according to this, we have a choice as to what we think about. And what comes into your lives.
LAMARSKY

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lee-ann · 08-15-2001, 06:40 AM

dear lamarsky,

thank you so very much for your advise and wise words. I am more than happy to read what you wrote as for sometime now have been aware thar there might be other problems at hand which are responsible for the cts. I firmly believe that we can change mostly anything with thought pattern and right living. I have been under a lot of stress lately, break-up, change of home as well work problems, family....almost everything that causes stress but all at the same time. Of course it has effected my life and have noticed that everything seems to be going downhill. As in the past I have received physical symtoms from stress and knew that this has to be somehow linked. Perhaps its even the heart meridian causing this pain. (fig or lit heart) It is painful though and I think as humans we do feel such pain we expect the very worse. I have been putting off going to an orthopedic surgeon for some time now. Its almost that I might know instinctively that it is curable and that I myself can heal it. I will try the excercises you say and of course will try to eliminate the problem of stress. It is funny though because I am an artist (illustartor/graphic designer) but have quite a block at the moment. Seem to be able to work only at the last moment...(or under pressure) perhaps because I am not enjoying what I am doing or what the client wants me to do. Although it is not my right hand that is being affected, which I assumed it would be. Thank you once again!!!!!

I will probably e-mail my response to you as well!!!

Thank you,

Lee-Ann

lamarsky · 08-16-2001, 08:56 PM

Dear Lee-Ann,
The left hand often is a metaphor for the sheild arm.
It is a symbol of the nuturing influences.
This is usually associated the feminine aspects of life.
The weakness there might indicate the you dson't feel supported.
Or, inside, perhaps at a subconscious level, you feel powerless and betrayed.
all the Best,
Lamarsky