Quilting Nonnie

I'm not a doctor either. I have wrist pain from the outside wrist bone up the outside of my arm. Tingles and pain. Because it originated at work, I went to a wrist specialist for workman's comp. It wasn't carpal tunnel. After six months of trying to just treat the pain I was sent to an outside wrist specialist. He said he could feel what was wrong with my wrists but didn't know what is was.

I finally got off of workman's comp. Found the only thing to do was to avoid everything that caused the pain.

Four years later my supervisor wanted me to get my wrists checked again. (long story). This time they brought a wrist specialist up from the Big City. That wonderful doctor did all sorts of measurements, checked lots of things about my wrist.

The diagnosis (after 15 years of dealing with wrist pain) is the angle of my inner and outer wrist is off. Most people have a 30% angle between inner and outer wrist bones. This spreads the "load" on your wrist across the entire wrist.

My wrist has no angle. Because of that, all the load is on the outside wrist bone.

The interesting part is that this is a "variation of normal." Meaning that it occurs so much that it is just another way for the wrist to be structured.

Definitely see a doctor. If they're saying it's tendonitis, do the treatment. After six months and still having pain, I would request a wrist specialist. Unfortunately for me it took three specialists. If your specialist measure your wrists in several positions and angles, you've got a good one!

nstitches4u

This is a common problem among quilters. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome can be very painful. Ice, rest and perhaps a wrist support will help. Good luck!

3plus2granny

This happened to me quite a while ago. I had gone to a retreat and did a lot of straight seam stitching. I was constantly pushing fabric through the machine. This caused my wrist to continuously move at an angle. I went to a doctor eventually and got a straight brace for my wrist. It was the kind that goes over the thumb and keeps the wrist from bending. It eventually went away with medication too. Good luck.

Christine-

I agree 100%! My chiropractor told me most carpel tunnel problems he sees in his office are started at the vertebrate between the shoulder blades. The nerve branches out to the wrist from that area of the spine, and when the vertebrate is misaligned there, you'll see the start of carpel tunnel symptoms.

1screech

I recently have been having a lot of pain in my hands from yard work. My fingers and thumb hurt when I bend my wrist. I went to the Dr. yesterday and I have arthritis in my wrist. They have become inflamed from pulling weeds and redoing my beds. He has instructed me to stabilize the wrist and no yard work. He did not say I could not sew and quilt. Rest it and stabilize it. I too had carpel tunnel surgery.

Pilgrim

I wore braces on both wrists due to carpal tunnel and finally had surgery and it is not a problem anymore. I had broke my wrists, arms, and finger at different times and always wondered if that was part of the cause. I was a bank teller and counted money and that is really what set it off. Surgery fixed it. There could be many reasons for your problem and an orthopedic surgeon can definitely tell you what is needed to fix it. I hope you get this taken care of soon. No use in suffering.