update after steroid injection
Hi Dr Bland, I was contacted by email for a progress report, well sad to say there has been no imprvement, I have stopped taking gabapentin and i am now taking pre gabelin, which is a low dose, all my old symtoms have come back, I am seeing another vascular sergeon on april 9th and let you know the outcome, cheers...richard
hi Dr Bland, yes I am still getting the tingling, numb hands, and pins and needles in both hands, left hand is still all four fingers and thumb, right hand is only ring finger and little finger, i saw a vascular surgeon called Mr Donato(St Thomas's hospital), up to then my hands had been particularily bad, I even had numb hands all the way up on the train, he wasn't very helpful(couldn't access any of my scans or medical records), but he did move my arms around a lot while holding my pulse, this hurt my shoulders a lot, but on the way home no numb hands, since then it's come back slowly and if I do anything that involves my hands being over shoulder height makes it worse, I've just started mowing the lawn again and this also has a negative impact on hands,wrist, arm, shoulder and neck pain, what else did you think the problem was apart from CTS? I'm afriad my memory is suffering with all the mental stress I have at the moment, thanks...richard
In terms of other problems you have trouble with the ulnar nerve at the right elbow - which is probably why the little and ring fingers tingle on that side - and you are also known to have trouble with compression on the blood vessels near your shoulder on the angiogram so your symptoms are probably of rather mixed origin. When I saw you the other right hand fingers were tingling too so it sounds as though that aspect of the symptoms may have changed in response to injection. I'm afraid I don't treat anything but the CTS so I can't help much with the rest but try not to lean on the elbow (particularly easy to do on Network SouthEast Rail if you put the arm-rests down!) JB
Are you still getting tingling in the fingers waking you at night - or did that change at all for a while after injection? I did say of course that I thought your problem was not only CTS. JB