Carpel tunnel surgery1/1/2024 Do NOT lift anything heavier than about 3-5 lbs for at least 2-3 months. Sadly this doesn't happen overnight and it will take time. Again, it will hurt at the beginning but get better as you go along. Deep massage using your thumb from the good hand into the area of the pain your feeling will also help some. It all helps desensitise the tender nerves and muscles. A bowl of ice water and slowly dipping the hand in and out over a period of about a half an hour at a time. I also recommend doing something called ice-dipping. It hurts, but it hurts less as you do it more. Gently manipulate them between both hands, putting pressure on the healing hand and it will help desensitise the nerves that are totally on edge right now. Also, if you can find them (I found mine at a pet store) get some squishable balls and bars that have texture to them. I also bought a soft hand/wrist brace that I wear most of the time and it seems to help some. I haven't gotten any help from my surgeon at all. I'm now a month and a half after surgery and since I've been working physio on my own I'm starting to see some improvement. Obe 9th to ladies who posted on this sie set up a carpel tunnel surgery Facebook page which you might want to look at as lots of stories and hints and also people who can support each other through the good and bad bits. I hope when I go to discuss the anesthetic ( going to ask for an arm nerve block this time ) and also discuss pain etc. You are doing better than I am - the most I can do is gently stroke my fingers on top of the dressing - and that's sore ! Have you got arrangements to go back and see the consultant who did it. I know everyone's different and everyone's experiences are different and even pain thresholds are different but it does seem that some people it doesn't seem to go as well with and there is a lot of nerve pain etc afterwards. I am due to go back to consultant on 15th and then my left hand on Jan 6th and quite honestly just don't know how will do that ( anesthetic wouldn't take and they had to keep topping up with more injections as I could feel everything). 8th fact, can't do pretty much anything with it. I have had so many pain killers - and I am someone who usually has 2 paracetamol in a year! I can't hold a kettle - or anything else, I struggle to "hold" up my mobile with my right whilst texting with my left. I had my stitches out yesterday which was agony. My hand is so sore and it was very bruised and swollen ( going down now) I get a lot of jolts and pains in hand / wrist and the scar area stings on and off for periods throughout the day. I am still waking up throughout the night. I'm sorry to hear that things aren't going well.I had mine done just over 2 weeks ago and I know how you feel, I have never cried so much as what I gave done since then.
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