hands (for the upteenth time)
so tuesday my right hand started hurting. i haven't been sewing, and i've been on bar but not that much. so i was a little confused. wednesday it hurt so bad that if there had been someone to take my shift, i would have ditched it. i took three ibuprofen around 1, and then when it was still bugging me at three i took another three. I took another three at 6 (all three servings with food) and sort of desparately called my mom. mom said stop taking ibuprofen, go to the doctor.
so today i went to the doctor, the worker's commp doctor who looks at you and tells you if you're ok. i've been kinda dreading it because aside from Dr. Pomona Steve no doctor has really told me i have anything wrong with my wrists. i wear wrist braces, i try to back off when it gets weird, i don't know and my wrists hurt. the doc today looked at my hands and noticed that i have a bump on my right wrist that isn't on my left. he poked a little to be sure, but said that to him it looked like a ganglion cyst, which basically means that the sack of fun body fluids that lubricate your wrist has poked up between bones and tendons (imagine squeezing a water balloon and part of it bulging out between your fingers) and is now pushing and irritating tendons. he took an x-ray to check on my carpeltunnel bone structure and to see if anything funny showed up on the xray (ganglion cysts won't because they're made up of fluids) and said that my wrists actually look fine and i shouldn't worry about carpeltunnel, i'm already doing everything right and it sounds like i have a pretty mild case if anything. what i should do is go to a family practitioner type doctor and get him to look at it and see if he can remove it or do anything about it or whatever.
so i guess i'm ok. and i can remember having a bump there for a while now, so that may explain some other stuff. wikipedia says that ganglion cysts are sometimes referred to as "Bible Bumps", which is a term that "comes from a common (but discouraged) treatment of pounding on the cyst with a Bible or another large book."
so today i went to the doctor, the worker's commp doctor who looks at you and tells you if you're ok. i've been kinda dreading it because aside from Dr. Pomona Steve no doctor has really told me i have anything wrong with my wrists. i wear wrist braces, i try to back off when it gets weird, i don't know and my wrists hurt. the doc today looked at my hands and noticed that i have a bump on my right wrist that isn't on my left. he poked a little to be sure, but said that to him it looked like a ganglion cyst, which basically means that the sack of fun body fluids that lubricate your wrist has poked up between bones and tendons (imagine squeezing a water balloon and part of it bulging out between your fingers) and is now pushing and irritating tendons. he took an x-ray to check on my carpeltunnel bone structure and to see if anything funny showed up on the xray (ganglion cysts won't because they're made up of fluids) and said that my wrists actually look fine and i shouldn't worry about carpeltunnel, i'm already doing everything right and it sounds like i have a pretty mild case if anything. what i should do is go to a family practitioner type doctor and get him to look at it and see if he can remove it or do anything about it or whatever.
so i guess i'm ok. and i can remember having a bump there for a while now, so that may explain some other stuff. wikipedia says that ganglion cysts are sometimes referred to as "Bible Bumps", which is a term that "comes from a common (but discouraged) treatment of pounding on the cyst with a Bible or another large book."