Medical and "older" age question
Reciently I have started developing what is commonly called a "trigger finger". (3rd finger on right hand)
Not knowing if it will spread to other fingers, I wondering if anyone here knows what I can do to prevent it from doing so and what kind of exercise can I do to help repair what I seem to be getting. If something like that ever happened on my index finger, I can curtain a lot of my photography, not stopping but slowing it down.
Any thoughts?
Try sleeping with a winter glove on the infected hand.
Jay Pat
Loc: Round Rock, Texas, USA
My experience.
I got it on both thumbs right at the same time.
It was painful for me and I went to the doctor.
He said outpatient surgery will take care of it.
Was not offered any therapy.
So, I had the surgeries.
Fixed.
Pat
If you google
trigger finger treatment
you'll get quite a few very informative links.
--Bob
GENorkus wrote:
Reciently I have started developing what is commonly called a "trigger finger". (3rd finger on right hand)
Not knowing if it will spread to other fingers, I wondering if anyone here knows what I can do to prevent it from doing so and what kind of exercise can I do to help repair what I seem to be getting. If something like that ever happened on my index finger, I can curtain a lot of my photography, not stopping but slowing it down.
Any thoughts?
I've had trigger finger twice. First one was taken care of with a shot of cortisone. Cleared up in a couple of days.
Not so lucky on the second one. Had the shot, but it came back in a month or two. Went in for surgery. Surgery was not a big deal. Finger is mostly healed after 10 months, bit the finger stiffens up later in the day. Still working on that.
I had a finger start to get trigger finger one other time. Noticed it early enough that I could take some some anti inflammation ( max dose) and it went away.
Good luck.
Steve
Batman
Loc: South-Central Texas
GENorkus wrote:
Reciently I have started developing what is commonly called a "trigger finger". (3rd finger on right hand)
Not knowing if it will spread to other fingers, I wondering if anyone here knows what I can do to prevent it from doing so and what kind of exercise can I do to help repair what I seem to be getting. If something like that ever happened on my index finger, I can curtain a lot of my photography, not stopping but slowing it down.
Any thoughts?
What worked for me was applying a short squirt of WD-40 to the outside of the affected joint once a day...usually at around bedtime...just spray it on and rub it around a little bit...after about a week, it quit "triggering" on me, and everything has been loverly now for about two years. Now I'll start working on incontinence...
Batman
Trigger finger isn't an 'age' thing. I've been getting them for a long time. I have one now that has come back twice after cortisone injections and I'm about to get another injection. The injections can last for a year or more before it comes back on me, but the last one only lasted a few months, so maybe I'll end up having surgery to fix it. I've had a number of trigger fingers and the surgery is not a big deal. It was done as an outpatient each time and after the stitches were removed I didn't even think about them again.
Hello GENorkus,
I am a physician who has also had a trigger finger. When it became clear that it was not going away, I saw a hand surgeon. He suggested a short course of an oral anti inflammatory which did not help very much. He then suggested a steroid injection which was very helpful. The signs and symptoms resolved. They did return but in a milder form some months later but without any other therapy, they eventually resolved on their own. I have not been bothered again for some years now.
Another finger on the other hand also developed similar symptoms. I saw the same surgeon and we decided that I would not pursue any invasive therapy and the symptoms did resolve on their own within a few months. They have not returned.
Good luck,
Photodoc16
You may be developing depuytren's contracture. You would do well to make an appointment with a hand doctor. I had nodules developing in both of my hands and had them removed before "tentacles" could actually reach my fingers. That surgery was easy.
dancers
Loc: melbourne.victoria, australia
A cortisone shot fixed mine...years back.
Mine went away by itself, lucky for me.
I"ve had trigger finger on 4 fingers. Had surgery on 3 of them. So far, cortisone has "cured" the fourth.
sb
Loc: Florida's East Coast
Are you sure you are not developing Depuytren's Contracture? That is when the tendons become thickened and fibrous, slowly pulling the fingers in towards the palm. A "trigger finger" may be extended and flexed, at least with help from the other hand, but will "catch" or "snap". A contracture pulls the fingers up slowly over time and they cannot be extended (straightened out). A trigger finger generally is not as much of a problem unless you use those fingers a lot. A contracture will start getting in the way a lot. Contractures are usually in the 3rd, 4th, and/or 5th finger. You can get them in the other hand. I have seen them in the feet,a although that is rare. There is an injection therapy which helps some folks, and surgery is an option.
I would suggest that you ask your primary care doc to refer you to a good hand surgeon.
Trigger thumb left hand, then trigger finger (middle) of the right. Meds didn't help, opted for surgery that was back when I was in my early 50's. No problems since.
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