Operation?

[comeracing]

I got diagnosed with carpel tunnel syndrome earlier this year , during the summer things improved as I've been wearing wrist supports whilst out on delivery, but the past 2 weeks I've been in agony sharp shooting pains, pins and needles and loss of feeling in my hand not a nice experience, this I'm 100 % sure has happened due to handling much heavier parcels , been told I could have an operation, but don't really want to go down that road as I'm a big baby in that department lol .Could I get ill health retirement let's face it hands are important in this job , any advice please ,have I an option to take I'll health retirement.

[tramssirhc]

The operation for carpal tunnel is not that traumatic and the recovery is relatively uncomplicated. If you suffer in both hands the operation will be carried out on one hand first, then the other after recovery. It's unlikely that you would be given I'll health dismissal as carpal tunnel has a good recovery and elimination rate. I've know workers who had the op on both hands and it has stopped all symptoms with no recurrence.

[glenfiddich]

my wife had both wrists done at same time and had no bother with them afterwards just a bit awkward and needed quite a bit of help for a couple of weeks after op but she says if they'd only done 1 she wouldn't have gone back to get the other one done

[Basildon Bond]

I got diagnosed with carpel tunnel syndrome earlier this year , during the summer things improved as I've been wearing wrist supports whilst out on delivery, but the past 2 weeks I've been in agony sharp shooting pains, pins and needles and loss of feeling in my hand not a nice experience, this I'm 100 % sure has happened due to handling much heavier parcels , been told I could have an operation, but don't really want to go down that road as I'm a big baby in that department lol .Could I get ill health retirement let's face it hands are important in this job , any advice please ,have I an option to take I'll health retirement.

Is this your situation: You have been getting up, doing your job, lifting and carrying, now something is hurting and you want it fixed 100% fast?

If you talk to a doctor surgery is always going to come up. Talk to a fisherman and he'll talk fish right? Go with only what you know and practice!

Most of us are like this. We have been damaging something for a while and not really noticing it. Only when the pain (or numbness/ tingling/ etc.) starts to be felt or gets to a level we do like do we flick to "I need this fixed today" or with some kind of medical "quick fix". The problem is that often the damage has occurred over a long period and when the symptoms reveal themselves we think we just need the fix to take us back a few weeks or months to when we didn't experience the symptoms. However, to undo the damage it may actually take longer to start feeling better. The good news is that the human body is usually very good at wanting to fix itself - it's rebuilding itself everyday (I know that seems hard to believe when we look in the mirror in the morning). However, sometimes the body needs a little help.

Bottle of castor oil (Holland and Barrett) or cheap "Deep Heat" or tube of "muscle rub" gel from Poundland or wherever is all you need to start. Then you need to locate the "trigger points" in the forearm and understanding the cause of the pain may not be right at the site of the pain. Pain in your hand? Look to your forearm. Pain in your upper arm? Try the shoulder. Headache? Rub the neck. Ankle pain? Side of the lower leg. Finally rubbing those trigger points for a few minutes a few times a day is what I would do.

The key thing is that it's not just "rubbing". It's exactly WHERE to rub and releasing the knotted point and keeping on it until it improves.

People today often think the only answer is from a doctor. It's a wonder how numbness was fixed centuries ago. If you found yourself in a cave in the middle of nowhere with nothing available and your arm hurts, what would you do? I expect most of us would keep it warm (better in the summer right?) and rub it.

Know the location of the trigger points and not the pain...

https://www.triggerpoints.co.nz/need-tr ... al-tunnel/

https://abbottcenter.com/bostonpainther ... r-muscles/

Set an alert or alarm on your phone if you are bad at remembering to do it frequently. Honestly, try it for two weeks and stick to a schedule. Note if it feels better or about the same. If it feels like a 5/10 now, does it still feel 5/10 after a week of rubbing the trigger points?

If no improvement I'd truly look for a good local acupuncturist and follow a course of that before going back to the doctor. Reviews are mixed but I read a lot of reviews that are really positive for this route.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articl ... ectiveness

You can of course take a pill but that's just masking the problem and not doing anything to fix it.

Trust me, all of the above is not quackery - it's how the human race survived for generations long ago but is now forgotten. Try it and report back. It beats cutting into your skin as step one (just park that option off for a while). And trigger points work for the whole body too so you can improve all types of aches and pains.