Possible post op complications
26 July 2016 - 2:14pm
I had surgery on my right hand end of last July so about a year ago. It has been brilliant. No numbness ir problems so completely successful.
However in about the last 6 weeks I have noticed that my right thumb is sore and keeps getting stuck or refuses to bend. It is very painful to bend it and ditto back straight again and clicks. This seems to have got worse in the last couple of weeks. I am
Having trouble using it and gripping so becoming s real problem.
Is this a possible connection to the surgery and should I contact the clinic for an appointment it see my own go?
26 July 2016 - 9:52pm
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Thank you for your reply which has been very helpful. I will get in touch with my gp.
Sounds very much like a trigger digit - a separate condition from CTS but somehow associated with it so that people who get one of these conditions tend to get the other one as well. Treatable, like CTS, with steroid injection or surgery. Your GP may know how to deal with it in in-house if you are lucky or they may have to send you to the hand surgeons. I'm afraid we don't treat them in the CTS clinic. JB