CTS LAST GRADE
People, sorry for my speaking, not so good, but I need your help. My mum has cts from mny years and after many years strong pain, thumbness and weakness she went to doctors. They didn't find something dangerous. One friend of mum's husband said that she has to go to neurologist, she went and he said we have to make electro miography. They made and he said that she has last grade cyst and if she won't make surgeries immediately she will lose her hands forever and she won't be able even to move her hands with one word she will lose her hands. She went in other town in some clinic with very good doctors which make this, they make surgeries if it's really serious. They said it's really bad and you have to make immediately, and they made the surgeries and they said it's getting good, but after 2 monts she has the same problem. She had some psychio therapy but it was for the nerve. The therapist said you have to make therapy for tennis elbow. And after some time, I have some problem with ingrown nail, however we went to some clinic and she saw that they make also cts. She explained the problem and he said we will make X-ray of hand if tennis elbow is too bad for surgery. He said it's not yet so bad and you have to make some injections with cortisone. She doesn't want to go often, because after surgery she stayed at home 2 monts without working and she doesn't want to stay more. So.. Is there someone who had really LAST GRADE OF CTS and after surgery and something special, and is it possible full recovery after something? We are in Germany BTW, and I will say again last grade... Is there someone with same problem and recovery after this.. Thank you in advance!!
Yes, both hands and not better. Under last grade, I mean that the doctor said if u don't make the surgeries now, you will lose your hands forever. And now the problem of cts hit the tennis elbow.
Tennis elbow is a completely separate condition from CTS and a completely different kind of problem at that. CTS is a nerve disorder whereas tennis elbow is a problem of tendon and bone. The first thing we need to know here is how bad the CTS really was. People are often told that they 'need' surgery when that is not strictly the case and the only way I can judge how bad the CTS was is to see the NCS results - can we get hold of them? JB
It's connected. First they said that she need surgery. She did want to make them that's why she went to good clinic. They make surgeries only when is extreme situation. He said if we don't make it now, after 1 month we won't be able tell do what medicine can. And the muscles under thumb are atrophied. And when she is bringing something the power of this has to go to these muscles, but when they're atrophied the power goes to tennis elbow. And it makes problems. Because of cts she couldn't feel her fingers, now she feels them, but IDK is it possible the muscles to become like before, she said me yes but maybe she doesn't say everything to me, just now to get worried. And my question is is it possible her hands and muscles to become like before, even after bad grade and yes. I read that it can take even years to heal.
The worst cases of CTS can take a long time to improve, or may not improve at all but I think the idea that it can give you tennis elbow is nonsense I'm afraid. The difficulty here is that we do not really know how bad the CTS was, whatever the doctors may have said. At least it sounds as though sensation in the fingers is improving - which is progress. JB
Sorry if I don't understand that fully but I think you are saying that your mother had surgery for CTS, both hands?, two months ago and they are no better - is that right? It's hard to know what they mean by 'last grade' - can you get hold of the nerve conduction study results? JB