Splint

Fairly loose is the answer - the aim is only to keep your wrist straight, not to cut off the circulation to your hand. it only needs to be fastened tightly enough to stop it falling off. JB

Ok Great thank you Lynda

Hi you asked me to let you know how i am getting on with the splint, sorry for the late response but i have been away on holiday,
i feel that the splint has helped a little although i am still experiancing pins and needles in my hand during the day and sometimes whilst driving, depending how long the journey is,
I am happy to continue to wear the splint unless you feel there is another option,
Many Thanks Lynda

If the symptoms are still significantly troublesome then the next logical step would be steroid injection. We can arrange that for you if you wish. Read through the section of the website on treatment with steroids and then let us know if you want to go ahead. JB

Ok will do thank you

Hi,

I've read the steroid info and i think that would help, when could you do an injection for me, and does it hurt,

Lynda

Monday to Thursday next week, afternoons are usually a bit quieter. Not usually painful - we ask people to give the procedure a pain score from 0=none to 10=worst pain imaginable - the average answer is 2 - roughly comparable to a blood sample. JB

Thank you, I've booked in for Thursday afternoon this week,

Hi,
I had my injection in my left hand on 21st July, and was asked to let you know how it was going after 6 weeks,
I have noticed that my thumb has pins and needles in it, they are not bad but there a lot of the time its worse when i use my thumb for any activities, any idea's where we go from here, Many Thanks Lynda

How are the symptoms otherwise? Can you run through another symptom severity questionnaire on here for me - go to the 'My CTS' section and look for the option to 'take another severity score test'. JB

Hi Thanks for the reply, I'll have a go at doing another test, i am also getting pins and needles in my wrist as well when i straighten my arm out my whole hand tingles, i'll do the test now then you can get back to me with where we go from here once you have those results, Many thanks Lynda

Severity sore test all done, will wait for you to get back to me Thank you

On those scores it looks as though one hand is cured while the other has gone from being normal to pretty bad  - are the left and right sides reversed for one questionnaire? JB

My right hand was operated on a couple of years ago and has been fine since, the symptoms started in my left had about a year ago, and are getting worse I don't feel as if the steroid injection has helped much at all in fact I'd probably say it's worse if that's possible since I had it done.

Surgery on the right hand can't have been that long ago as it hadn't been done when we first tested it in April 15, which was only last year - but at least the questionnaire results now make sense. We should probably see you again with a view to arranging surgery. There are a few things that I would like to go over in a face to face consultation and we will take the opportunity to re-check your NCS and see if it has become measurably worse. I'll organise an appointment. JB 

I have put an appointment in the post for you. EK

Thank you