Dropping Things

Forgot to mention that in addition to the morning symptoms being controlled by wearing the night wrist braces I also use an earphone for the telephone so I don't have to hold it to my  ear and a light ereader instead of books.  The only symptom I cannot control is the dropping stuff so often.

 

You are right to be hesident about surgery. If it were me I would consider a desending course of steroids from Prednisone 50 mg daily down to 5 mg and off over a 5 week period. Your idea of MRI is a good idea. As for dropping things this is sometimes stress related or at least stress exaserbated and I wonder if you might consider some psychotherapy. You will not like this suggestion but doctors consider dropping things as a "functional disorder"

Hello Rena

I have had carpal tunnel release surgery on both my right and left hands.  With my right hand, my symptoms were exactly as you describe i.e. tingling whenever you hold your hands up using the telephone or when reading a book.  I also found that when I was driving, holding my hand in the same position on the steering wheel caused tingling and eventually numbness in the hand. 

I was given a wrist brace for the right hand which helped at  night but it got so bad that I had to get out of bed and swing my arm around to get rid of the tingling and throbbing in the hand and the arm. 

Having the surgery was the best thing that I did, the relief was enormous.

When I felt the symptoms in my left hand, I did not hesitate to have surgery before it got too bad.

My sister has had both of her hands done as well.  She complained of dropping things and since she has had the surgery she has been fine.

You probably should have a word with your doctor to see if your Cervical Degenerative Disc Disease has a role to play but it sounds very much like Carpal Tunnel.

 

I have a condition that affects all my joints and I was always worried it was that and the op would not work but it's wonderfull now .still little grip but to have no pins and needles is hreat

Thank you all so much for your replies and I do apologize for the delay in my response. I have since been to my doctor who reassured me that the nerve conductivity test and neurologist examination indicate that the nerve issues are localised to the hands. I've decided to go ahead with surgery on my left hand. Thank you all again. ☺

I drop stuff too! I'll be in school going to my elective classes, then all of a sudden, my hand lets go of my pencil! It annoys me because I carry too many books, so I can't bend down to pick it up! I haven't told anyone... I don't want my parents to think I'm crazy. It is like my hand forgets that it is holding something! To make matters worse, the Palm of my hand stings ALL THE TIME! It feels like a bee stung me in my hand! Is there something wrong with me?

I used to be a paramedic with an ambulance service. I worked with them for 32 years until, one day, whilst attending an RTA (road traffic accident), I got 'wiped up' by an uninsured driver causing numerous injuries including a fractured spine (4 vertebrae) and both wrists smashed along with other fractures and injuries.

I had both wrists rebuilt following the accident and both work reasonably well.

However, even now some twenty years later I am still suffering the after effects. I have the strangest feelings in both hands. I can pick something up and hold it, but then often when I go to use the object I have previously picked up and can still feel I am holding, I find I have dropped it. Despite this, I can still feel it in my hand/fingers. As far as my brain is concerned, I am still holding something I have dropped, and the most annoying part of it is, I then have to go looking for it because I do not know where or when it was dropped. It could be as light as a set of keys or even a pencil. It could be a book, although usually I hear that fall.

I will not go into the fact that bending down to pick the object up now comes under the heading of "dangerous sports". But has anyone out there come across this strange phenomenon before? I can remember being told about this during training long, long ago but cannot remember the name. Anyone know what it is called please? And does anyone know what I can do to alleviate the problem please?