Wrist Injuries
05-06-2011, 06:10 AM
#23
Super Member
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Maine
Posts: 1,376
Get yourself a big tube of Zim's Max-Freeze. If you can't find it in the store, the website is http://MAXFREEZEGEL.COM
It is organic - totally natural ingredients and works like a charm for me. I have problems in both hands in the thumbs and running up into the wrist.
It is organic - totally natural ingredients and works like a charm for me. I have problems in both hands in the thumbs and running up into the wrist.
Originally Posted by Legs
I have been enjoying this website for some time but have not participated in the conversation until today. Having been diagnosed with severe arthritis in my left wrist and thumb, it goes without saying that I have really been hampered in continuing to do my favorite activity. I would greatly appreciate hearing how others have handled this revolting development! I find myself encumbered with a thumb and wrist stabilizer, complete with 2 splints. I've also received a shot into the joint. Anyone who has experienced the above and would share their experience and perhaps tips for working around this problem would be gratefully read.
05-06-2011, 07:24 AM
#26
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Lake Havasu City, AZ
Posts: 351
Welcome from AZ. I am right handed, and the disease has really distorted my right hand and it is swollen most of the time to double the size of my left. It hurts most of the time, but I just do what I can when I can. Don't have insurance, so every quilt I quilt or sell goes into a fund so someday I can have this taken care of.
05-06-2011, 11:24 AM
#29
Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Green Bay, WI
Posts: 122
Welcome from Green Bay, Wisconsin. My mother had to have a wrist replacement and my father had a thumb joint replaced. Both were because of arthritis. I have the same problem in my right thumb as my dad did. While I have been diagnosed with sever arthritis in my right thumb area I have not considered surgery yet. There is a different procesure today than when my dad had his taken care of. It is a lot less invasive. I do take celebrex for my arthritis and that helps. I don't wear splints during the day but I do at night . That also helps greatly. Another thing that might help is playing the piano. Sounds strange but it does work.
05-06-2011, 11:38 AM
#30
Member
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Illinois (originally California)
Posts: 92
welcome from illinois.. i have arthritis in my thumb joints also - had carpal tunnel and radial tunnel surgery on my right arm... i have not found a 'magic' cure but i do know that the hot parrifin wax treatments help some, as does those little squeeze balls... good luck and please hang in there - i have also found that staying active with my hands is much better than not :)
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