It does get better (eventually)

Michael513
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Here's my story that may help those with CT. I'm 74 years old, fairly fit, bit overweight but almost one year ago, using garden secateurs squeezing too hard I felt pain in one wrist, finished the job with my other wrist and felt immediate pain leading to pins and needles in both hands. I lost count of the number of sleepless nights and even had prescribed medication (sleeping tablets) which did not suit me. I used several splints, hot and cold therapy which did help. Night-time burning pain in palms, ache in elbow and wrist and after 3 months got a formal diagnosis of CT and was told to have steroid injections if no improvement. As time passed, I developed night-time numbness in middle/ring finger due to damage to the median nerve which has now gone. However, CT has led to osteoarthritis in both hands and also trigger finger in one hand (ring finger). Even this is slowly improving, ok I occasionally can drop things but with regular hand exercises all CT symptoms have gone and hopefully will not return.

jeremydpbland
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CTS does sometimes occur as a self-limiting episode so this might just be improving by itself but if you are still dropping this unusually often you should probably get it checked with some nerve conduction studies. Occasionally deteriorating nerve function can be mis-interpreted by the patient as an improvement in symptoms. CTS does not cause osteo-arthtitis - that is just a coincidenttal development. However trigger digits and CTS are related, though it's not a case of one causing the other - more likely is that there is a common genetic predisposition to both disorders. There is a whole page of the website devoted to this issue. JB

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