I pretty fed up with the whole carpal tunnel thing. It started just a few months ago – a little tingling in the finger tips.. I actually thought I’d pinched a nerve in my neck from helping hubby move the tv. It has progressively gotten worse since then.. and it’s to the point now where it gives me constant pain. I’m on the waiting list at the hospital. The nerve testing came back and showed there is moderate & severe carpal tunnel in both wrists. The right wrist is aggrevated by a ganglion that is pressing on the median nerve.
Last night it woke me up every hour on the hour. The only way I can get to sleep and stay asleep is if I take the sleeping tablet 
which I hate to do.. I’m scared of them because they have the potential to be very addictive. I come from a long line of people with the ‘addictive’ gene… so I try to stay away from the medications that the doctors say can become addictive.
I’m having more and more trouble using the keyboard and I’ve started dropping things. I cannot play my handheld games – my Playstation Portable or my snazzy new pink, Nintendo DS that I got yesterday! I play for about 5-10 minutes and my hands cramp so bad that I have to put it down and try and rub the feeling back into my fingertips
I cannot see myself having to wait for another 36 months like I am :( I think by then I will have to smash the right wrist… despite the doctor and chemist’s advice not to do so.
All I know is.. the damn thing hurts and it’s making my life miserable as hell.
