If you have symptoms of carpal tunnel, get to a qualified hand surgeon and get tested, treated and do whatever is necessary to minimize impact on your wrists and hands.

I was just tested and had surgery a week later for severe carpal tunnel. I Quote the specialist who did the nerve conduction study “it is not what you do that causes carpal tunnel, it is an anatomical defect. I’m surprised you don’t have any muscle damage yet. You’ve even damaged your elbows. I can’t even get a response in several places.”

He was amazed I was still working full time 40 – 60 hours a week and commuting 3 hours a day. He had assumed I was on disability.

What I do aggravates the anatomical defect. Typing since I was in high school, keystroking to enter raw data and billing codes and costs, cleaning the garage, cleaning cabinets and floors, toting 3 babies around, carrying things which should take 2 people, clearing an acre of desert, digging up bolders, being the …..

Okay, you get the idea, you get older, joints wear out, cartilage either tears or starts to disintegrate in the joints and you get inflammation which causes swelling and compression of the carpal tunnel and yes, being BMI challeged can work on it too, because by being BMI challeged excess body mass is distributed all over the body, including the wrists and too much stuff in a small space = compression of the carpal tunnel and the nerves.

I just want my hands back.