Still in agony with this wrist

Hi CarpDog! Did you really tell the surgeon you've had cts since 1987?  What did he/she say then? Here in sweden they often say it's no use having a surgery done if more than a year have passed.

Same in uk, ken  they dont operate after after that long.  Longer u leave it more chsnce of it not working xx

When i had my right hand done, i was on the waiting list for 2 years, i then was put on another waiting list for another hospital and had the op within 2 weeks. My left hand i was waiting 6 months, i waited until i got laid off from work..x

Ok. I was supposed to have the surgery done 3.5 months after the cts  appeared in the first place (no definite surgery date though), but felt 90% better after wearing the wrist bracelets at night then, so the surgeon decided to cancel a possible surgery date. Then I felt bad again after a couple of weeks, efter Christmas. Then I had to wait another 3 months to get a new surgery date. Had it done. Now 11 months have passed. Some symptoms have gone totally, for instance the feeling of the hand about to explode, some symptoms are the same (cold hand during the night) and some symptoms are actually new (the feeling of burning heat inside the hand). I would say the positive progress are very very slow, but is still there. I have had many severe ups and downs, (from 10-100% recovered).

It's difficult to know - both for me and them - if I should have surgery on my left hand also, since I'm problem free some days of the week and have numbness, pain etc some other days, but never numb at night or day like I was in my right hand before the surgery. What should I decide? They don't know.

After doing the nerve tests the decision to operate was the only option left. Even though I've had it since 1987. My right hand went perfectly so I'm not so sure about the "No use after a year " theory. The left hand symptoms are improving so the only thing to do is wait. In deed every one responds differently. 

Hi Andrea! I had the surgery done in March 2014. I still have pain from time to time, but there other symptoms as well - mostly a feeling that my fingers are cut off if I don't touch anything with them. Do you have that? Plus a feeling of burning heat inside the hand most of the time and more. From what I've read, pain will diminish by time, at least it would n that case follow how every other pain have reached me in life to gradually diminish. Hope it's so fot You all too!

Hi ken, had my right hand operated on April 2014, i have nerve damage pain in my hands and my arms, on tablets that dont work, they gonna chsnge them. Lefthand needs operating on i have same pain like in my right hand, when i had op i had real bad burning in my right hand, i been in pain for 15 months now, i getting fed up xx

The pain, is it like when you toch the hot oven or more like a general burning heat - I have both of those. On the fingertips, especially one of them, there is a hot oven-pain which wakes me up etc as soon as I touch anything! "Use it as normal anyway", the surgeon said... The burning heat is a feeling like the hand isn't 37 degrees Celsius, but like 45 or something. At night the hand feels like 15 degrees Celsius. So my worst problem is really concerning how I experience temperature. i don't know how to handle it and who I should ask. My GP looks like a question mark. I can't write on ordinary laptops, it feels like my fingertips are burning then.

Ive joined your forum, and posted a comment on it..

I seriously can't believe that this surgeon did not do something for me after surgery, except tell me not to baby my hand. I told him about all the pain, burning, etc I was having and he said nothing.