Conclusion is....
Acute pain in left arm is due to tendonitis to be treated with a brace worn during the day and physical therapy.
Chronic pain in both arms is due to neuropathy from compressed nerves through the wrist/carpel tunnel. Not caused by inflammation but by long term damage from old electrical injury, so cortisone (steroid) shots would be unlikely to help. Only likely long term solution is carpel tunnel surgery (which snips a little ligament that run over the top of the carpel tunnel giving the nerves more space to live in). I'm going to ask my sister to fully exploit a friend of hers who is an orthopedic hand surgery fellow (who has worked with someone who has specialized in my particular type of injury) to find out more information about options and possible problems.
But I'm done with the constant pain, time to find a conclusion to all this. I'd be quite happy to just get back to where I was prior to last December (with occasional problems and restrictions but not this chronic crap).
Biggest problem is that surgery on my right (dominant) hand would probably have me out of work for a good two weeks and on my left hand for a minimum of 2-3 days. If I do the surgeries then they'd be at least 3-6 months apart. I'm going to talk to my boss(es) tomorrow about timing so I can take that into consideration during my research/debate.
Do you know anyone who's had carpel tunnel surgery?
Chronic pain in both arms is due to neuropathy from compressed nerves through the wrist/carpel tunnel. Not caused by inflammation but by long term damage from old electrical injury, so cortisone (steroid) shots would be unlikely to help. Only likely long term solution is carpel tunnel surgery (which snips a little ligament that run over the top of the carpel tunnel giving the nerves more space to live in). I'm going to ask my sister to fully exploit a friend of hers who is an orthopedic hand surgery fellow (who has worked with someone who has specialized in my particular type of injury) to find out more information about options and possible problems.
But I'm done with the constant pain, time to find a conclusion to all this. I'd be quite happy to just get back to where I was prior to last December (with occasional problems and restrictions but not this chronic crap).
Biggest problem is that surgery on my right (dominant) hand would probably have me out of work for a good two weeks and on my left hand for a minimum of 2-3 days. If I do the surgeries then they'd be at least 3-6 months apart. I'm going to talk to my boss(es) tomorrow about timing so I can take that into consideration during my research/debate.
Do you know anyone who's had carpel tunnel surgery?