Hey you guys. I found this old topic while looking for De Quervain's...

My thumbs are locking, again, and the thumb side of my wrist feels like it's gonna explode. I wish it would. Anywho, my diagnosis is stenosing tenosynovitis.

Has anyone had steroid injections to this area? How'd they do?

Thanks. Thumb stuff is extra special misery.

My unofficial web-based diagnosis is... what I said...

i did not like the steroid injections and i had them in the area you specified.

the surgery was excruciating, for me, on the left wrist, long recovery period, for me again, and very slow to heal, and I have a match set of limitations and restrictions on the right.

i put the left one out the other day when I fell outside and now it looks like it did after surgery. i should come with bubble wrap

i find the hard resting splints at night while sleeping the most helpful.

my rheumie would not inject my wrists. She sent me to a hand ortho for the injections, for me they were useless. too painful in their administration and too little of a payback. but I bet others got good relief on here

depot

I have the same problem but below the thumb at the wrist area. Can be very painful at times. I, personally, would not go with injections simply because of the pain of the injection itself in this particular area. So, I ice the area. Rest the area when I can and use Motrin. I do find that the less I do with that hand, the better that area feels.

Linda

Thanks for your thoughts, everyone. This is truly miserable.

I get to join the Funky Arm Club! Yay me!

This brachial plexus impingement of 3 verrry long weeks has settled into my right wrist & hand-all fingers, but 3 outer are worthless. Thumb & index work like pincers. My wrist will not move upward. All major nerves-radial, Median and ulnar- are affected.

Have I said how scary this is? The longer it goes on the more worried I get. The nerves should come back but neuro is saying since it's happening a 2nd time its more likely to recur with frequency. This time is much worse than the last time. I'm right handed and barely able to perform daily grooming presently. I'm learning to write with my left.

To top it off with a cherry, the impingememt has set off some type of central nervous system hyper-stimulation effect. All of my senses are turned up to 15. I can't focus. I can't eat. And my wonderful insurance runs out next week.

Fun times!

For the other sufferers, Im sorry. I guess we're all in this together. Wish we weren't but c'est la vie.

Take care,
Emerald

FWIW, inflammation is causing this injury but my SED is only slightly elevated & under 30.

Just another example of bloodwork not necessarily showing the whole picture.

I've had my Remicade dosage doubled, a decent dose of IV steroids & a 2hr neuromuscular massage with no improvement. Sometimes you can do all the right things & this damn disease still freaking wins!

Today anyway. I'll play the game again tomorrow & maybe I'll win this time!

emerald

where have you been?

missed you

depot

Hi Emerald!

I'm so sorry. Mine just hurts. I hope they get it under control fast.

I gotta say my heating pad is my very bestest friend today, and my little microwavable pearly heating pad thingy.

What I meant to say is I hope they get your inflammation and delightful impingement under control fast.

So I went ahead and had my rheumy inject my wrist. He did a really good job with the injection. After the lidocaine wore off, for about 48 hours, I thought I had made a big mistake. It hurt to move it in any direction. After that, it does seem better. I would do it again, but only if the pain was pretty bad.