I saw a hand specialist today about my rapidly worsening hands - the diagnosis was myalgia which basically means muscle pain. That's a good thing in that it's not a symptom of something more serious (e.g. carpal tunnel, etc), but a bad thing in that the next step is to not use my hands for at least a week. So if I am not easily reachable by the usual methods, the best bet is to try calling or just drop by; I think there's a bluetooth headset somewhere that works with my phone [yes, holding the cell phone is painful].
For perspective on what this is like, I nearly was in tears at least twice due to the pain - today when I saw and filled out all the forms for the doctor's appointment [they measured that same thing later, in how much pain I was in to grip things - I'm not sure the scale but it was a 10 for each of three trials for each hand], and yesterday when I went to vote. That's a longer story, new paragraph.
Our voting place moved to the fire station nearby, I went to vote in early evening and there wasn't any line. Usually there's no problems and I'm on the list, but they couldn't find me so I had to fill out a provisional ballot; signing my name was already painful and when they asked me to fill out all the info on the envelope it was too much. I asked if there was some other way to fill it out, and the lady who was helping me said she could fill it out. I am ever so grateful to her for filling out all those details for me!
In general I don't notice it much, as I have a fairly high pain tolerance for non-sharp pains. It's worst and less ignorable when actually using my hands though, so I should really finish this post and start resting. See yall in a week or more!
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Ok, that's some kind of sadism there; extensive handwritten forms to fill out at the *hand doctor*. :(
Yeah, that situation of filling out forms is pretty ironic.
I hope things are much better after the week has passed!
My hands got pretty savaged after last winter term (I could barely hold cutlery by the end of it), though your situation sounds much worse. In my case, I got nailed by a combination of cold/dry weather, thw wetar in the UK being harder than the water in the US, and use of chalk (I forgot to request a whiteboard for my class), and I've been using hand cream ever since. Parts of my hand are still rough---presumably because several of these things are still present in my life---but the hand cream has helped a lot. I imagine that after the week of no hand activity that the doctor will prescribe something regular to do to prevent this level of severity again.
Anyway, hopefully things will be good enough to get some Rock Band going in December. Otherwise, you could always sing. :)
And L5R can happen regardless...
So sorry to hear about the trouble you've been having! I hope now that you've had maybe three days of rest things are improving!!
I agree with Lanth about the sadism!!
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