Anyone experiencing any wrist pain post surgery?

its been 2 months for one, the other 3 months.  Most of the time, shooting awful pain to my fingertips.  Hope it goes away soon too

After spending months with pain in my neck, shoulders, arms, and hands, I was sent for an MRI by my Primary Doctor and this resulted in me being sent to a neurosurgeon due to spine problems found in the MRI.  Before doing anything, the neurosurgeon sent me to have MRI’s of both shoulders.  In addition, he had me tested for CTS with the electrical stimulation tests.  I not only had spine problem but I also had CTS in both hands and both shoulders required operating on due to the poor shape they were in.

 

The neurosurgeon could not do anything with the shoulders which required an osteopathic surgeon.   A decision to either repair the spine first or the shoulders was made by me to do the spine as I felt I could not wait any longer to go through the process of obtaining an osteopathic surgeon.  The neurosurgeon scheduled my spine operation and asked if I wanted to do a carpal tunnel release on one hand while I was under general antesthesia. I agreed when he said he had done many CTS releases.

 

Big mistake, and I hate to rain on your parade, but I am presently 40 months away from the surgery and I still have pain in the hand that had the CTR.  And, thanks to the osteopathic surgeon, I had 7 months of hand therapy with a CHT.  The neurosurgeon said it was not necessary and everything looked OK when I saw him after the surgery.  Five weeks after spine surgery I saw the osteopathic surgeon for my shoulder and thanks to him, at least I have the use of my hand now.  If he had not gotten me to a CHT, now I would have a CLAW, and not a hand.  However, the pain in the CTR hand is still bad, to the extent that I have to take pain medication most nights in order to get to sleep.   A real bummer!  I have been to another hand specialist and that was a waste of time.  It is slowly improving and at the rate it is going, I’m hoping that in another 2 years, it will be fairly pain free.   Only good part of the whole story is that the spine surgery went well and all of that pain is now gone. The scraping of the spine and the titanium plate he put in my spine seamed to work.  Hope you have better luck.