de Quervain’s tenosynovitis and some wheezing
De who in de what now?
Back in April when I was still working at the hotel restaurant, I started noticing that my wrist would get quiet sore doing certain acitivities. Around this same time, my allergies had started acting up so back that I was coughing a lot and wheezing. I was ordered to see my doctor.
I think it all started when I started to get a pain in my left shoulder when I would stretch to reach something far away. I swore so as my doctor performed the Finkelstein test to reveal to me that my wrist was suffering from de Quervain’s tenosynovitis. But what can you expect when I only started treatment about 6 weeks after it started hurting. I’m sure it had something to do with having to carry heavy plates and trays at the hotel restaurant job, but I had been carrying heavy things from plates to cases of beer for years so why should it start hurting now?
“Because you’re getting older and you took a year out doing office work…” was the realisation I had while I was on holidays a couple weeks ago. Then I wondered if I would ever get to bartend again… it is after all my favourite job in the whole wide world. I would do it forever if I felt I could survive living like an irresponsible teenager/night owl for the rest of my life. This ‘condition’ is part of the reason I’m trying to change careers… but only part. It still hurts if I grab the phone or even the steering wheel the wrong way so it’s not like this kind of work is much better but it’s certainly easier on my wrist than bartending.
It did help me with a cool costume one day though when a couple of friends of mine had a summer-sublet-house-warming medical themed costume party, so it’s not all bad. And it’s always a good for getting some sympathy when I wrap the stretchy bandage stuff around my wrist (to prevent moving my thumb).
Oh right, the wheezing, my doctor gave me some asthma medicine for the wheezing but I found out it actaully made things worse… so I stopped taking it. I’m just taking regular non-drowsy antihistimines instead.
July 1st, 2008 at 16:49
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June 30th, 2008 at 21:57
Awww… I hope you start to feel better soon hun.
June 30th, 2008 at 20:51
That sounds like exactly what I have! I can’t do the test today because my thumb is too stiff to bend toward the palm of my hand without causing pain, so maybe tomorrow. And I thought it was just arthritis or something. What an awful name– how long did it take you to learn to pronounce it?
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June 30th, 2008 at 10:42
Ugh! Hope your wrist gets better soon! My husband had to have carpal tunnel surgery to cure his problems, but I don’t think it was the magic cure for him as he still has issues with his hands going numb. I use special keyboards to make sure I don’t develop a similar problem.
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June 30th, 2008 at 10:13
Asthma AND de gobbledygook (I can’t remember the name of it, forgive me)? Wrist pain sucks if you’re an internet junkie like me…I hope it’s fading. As for the asthma, most of the time it takes a while to figure out which is best for you so keep an eye on that, okay?
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June 27th, 2008 at 15:42
Michael – The typing was bad, but it’s not anymore. Again after the trip to Ireland, it was aaaaaaallll healed.
Laura – Ouch. I’ve had cellulitis. It’s related to the flesh eating bacteria disease… how did you get it?!?!?! I got it because I had a burst burn blister on my chin that I allowed to get infected. There’s a story about it somewhere in my archives… can’t remember the title though. hehe Hope you get it sorted!!
June 27th, 2008 at 14:11
It’s funny how they can put a name on something you thought was just a sign of age or just something that will fix itself. I had what I thought was the flu and then a bad rash on my leg. I wouldn’t have bothered, just gone with the usual plan of waiting for it to go away. Turns out it was bad, cellulitis. A skin eating thing. Gross. I still have to go back for a check up, Monday. Pretty weird.
Hope you are feeling better. Bad time for allergies here now.
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June 27th, 2008 at 12:21
And all this typing is probably bad for ya…
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June 26th, 2008 at 11:32
A little bit… but only after my holiday in Ireland. They actually subsided a few days into my holiday. It was like… ‘the cure’ except for the coughing… that didn’t really go away when I went over there.
June 26th, 2008 at 11:03
Have symptoms reduced since you switched jobs?