I may have it. - Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Message Board

jill30 · 12-31-2005, 04:10 PM

What are the symptoms of carpal tunnel? I feel pain in my right wrist for a week now.

Taimse · 12-31-2005, 06:52 PM

I'm not sure just pain in the wrist means you have carpal tunnel. I had pins and needles feeling....like hand was going to sleep...at times. It progressed to hand falling asleep at night...then arm too. I'd wake up in pain. Then I would experience pain, cramping in hands as well as zingers in wrist shooting up into hands when I moved hands. I had ct release on rt hand 12 years ago. Wonderful on that hand. Didn't like the regional block....6 needle pokes in armpit to administer lidocaine...so I stalled on left hand. I could only sleep on left side with arm straight out the past 6 years before I had surgery in Feb. Had to ride as passenger with arm back behind drivers seat and sitting in restaurant.... hand and arm would get painfun and numb.

Perhaps you have something other than carpal tunnel going on, or are in the early stages so other therapies may be of use and can help keep symptoms from ever becoming worse. Do a search on internet for carpal tunnel symptoms. There are a lot of good sites, but I think I have to have them go through moderator to post here.

Johands333 · 01-06-2006, 04:39 PM

Pain on the back of the hand on the side where you have thumb, pointer and middle finger, pain along the back of the arm and pain in a specific spot on inside of elbow. Also, my surgeon told me that a spot in the area of your collar bone (just under it) might be from CTS. Fingers feel like they are sprained all the time. (not your pinkie or ring finger). The median nerve controls your thumb, pointer and middle finger (carpal tunnel refers to those fingers). The Ulnar nerve refers to the ring finger and pinkie. Also, the median artery refers to the blood vessel for your thumb, pointer and middle and Ulnar artery to the blood vessel for the ring and pinkie. In my case my hands would go to sleep on me while driving my car -- scarry. It was almost like someone pushed me and then the attack would come on.