Thread: My hand is giving me the s$&ts

Sorry to hear that.

Have you tried alternating hot and cold packs?
I know it won't help when trying to sleep but it may give you some relief at other times.
My wife tried this when she had CTS and it seemed to help.

When I crushed the fingers on my left hand in a goods lift door the oxycodone they gave me for pain relief made me hallucinate so I controlled the pain solely with ice packs - even at night I filled a flannelette bag with ice and wrapped it around my hand. It was more painful than the drugs but at least I wasn't seeing things.

You are absolutely right Bob. I do use a hot wheat pack to help ... And a hot hand wash before bed. I know what you mean about the effects of oxycodone ... Although I have only had a couple of hallucinations .. or weird little dreams. They are not bad so I prefer that over 2 or 3 hours sleep every night.

I had restless legs for many years - not painful - like ants were crawling around inside my lower legs - but enough to keep me awake.
The only relief I could get was to get up and spray my legs with hot water in the shower till the symptoms would die down. When It was really bad I was doing this twice a night.
Eventually it went away by itself.

Glenn if you'll be needing long-term pain management, you might want to talk to your doctor about a strategy for avoiding over-reliance on the Endone. Long term use could give you some dependency problems.

As said above go and see a pain specialist, I suffer from severe back pain I was prescribed Endone it has no effect on me might as well take jelly beans,
I went to see a pain specialist and over time have learnt control the pain to a livable level

Have you tried something as simple as Ibuprofen or Panadol? I have severe RA in my arms/hands so cannot use them at all now. Despite all the miracle drugs I'm taking for RA they simply don't work and I still have a lot of pain. Funnily enough Ibuprofen, although I'm not supposed to use it due to interactions with the RA drugs, seems to work the best, Panadol also tends to help a little. Neither Ibuprofen nor Panadol take away the pain but they do decrease it a little allowing very short intervals of half an hour or so where I can use my hands a little, albeit still with a lot of pain, certainly more so than the RA medications allow anyway.

Thanks for all of the ideas everyone !

Hang in there,some years ago I had an issue that made all the nerves in my arm die,so I can understand what the pain is like
I recovered but it took a while,the nerves that grow back do so at 1mm a day,quite a long time for me
So good luck