Ganglion on wrist

[snowgrouse]

So now my mum has informed that the big cyst on my right hand's carpal tunnel is a carpal ganglion cyst. Apparently harmless, but it's a big lump and irritating, esp. when it brushes against my mousepad (the graphics tablet which I have to use for the smoothest and easiest movement). Grah. Apparently they can be punctured and drained with a big

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[manna]

I had a ganglion cyst on the back my wrist a while back. It was quite annoying, but I decided not to do anything about it, because of the whole 'it will probably come back' thing. After a few months, it quietly shrank away again and finally completely disappeared. So unless it's *really* annoying it might be workth leaving it and seeing what happens.

[snowgrouse]

Yeah, felt like that too. If it gets really annoying I'll ask my mum to drain it. It might stop her nagging for once in a while... today, when I had a sauna there, the discussion was mostly of me telling her about a hypnotist guy in Finland who can help with insomnia, apparently, and then, of course, she started lecturing about my weight and my eating, and constantly asking me to sit in the middle of the topmost sauna bench so I "wouldn't bring the whole thing down with all that weight". AURGH.

[linda_joyce]

At least the modern treatment is less painful than the treatment my Grandmother meted out when she was the village wise woman back in the 1910-40s. Get some one strong to hold the victim, sorry patients arm still with cyst upper most. Bring the family bible down hard on the cyst and hopefully burst it. I'm not sure that the bible was used in the hope that its Holiness would help or just because it was the heaviest thing in the house that would not also break the patients arm as well as the cyst.%)

[snowgrouse]

Wow. That is very cool. In the anthropological and religious sense. Nico did mention I should get to know you because of my affinity with the Sidhe and so on:). Sadly, I think my flat hasn't got any, but our family sauna at my 'rents definitely has a Tonttu, a Sauna Spirit. I throw the first ladleful of water on the hot rocks with my left hand in honour of him:).

[linda_joyce]

The Sidhe are the Celtic Fairies aren't they. We ca;;them the little people of the Hills here and we know they are not a people to be messed with. Gran was very careful not to offend them. She also said that if my Mam hadjad not been born upstairs in this house and was never out of her sight for the first six weeks she would have thought the fairies had swapped her child for one of their own as Mam looked so like them, which was small black haired, dark brown eyes and sallow complexion. She was also somewhat psychic which is a tendency I have inherited from her but not to her level.

[snowgrouse]

That is VERY interesting. I'd love to know about this stuff--I've heard that Witchy and healer things do skip a generation.

I feel Fey myself because I'm short and ginger with green eyes, which is rare in these parts.

[jhall1]

I've had a small cyst (much, much smaller than the rather frightening one shown in the Wiki illustration) on my left wrist (I'm left handed, which may or may not be a factor) for almost as long as I can remember, certainly for over thirty years. It hasn't grown any larger in that time. In fact over the years it seems to have flattened out, so that if it wasn't for the difference in the skin texture and colour it wouldn't really be visible. Luckily it's in a location where it's unlikely to get knocked, because if it is it's very painful. (It's a long time since I've knocked it, but I'm unwilling to try the experiment to see if it's still as painful as it used to be.)

[snowgrouse]

Yeh, mine constantly knocks against my graphics tablet, which is Not Nice and adds to the irritation.

[communicator]

I had one exactly like that pic you linked to, and it went away on its own. I had a lot of oestrogen in my system as a youngster so it may be related to that.

[snowgrouse]

Well, if it's a hormonal problem I wouldn't be at all surprised. Bloody PCOS and hormones... I've had PMS for two weeks now.