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My primary doctor thinks my hand pain is from the tendon that runs from the wrist up the thumb and diagnosed it as De Quervain’s Disease tenosynovitis. I see a specialist next week. An injection may be an effective treatment option.
When it gets bad I can’t open the simplest things, it hurts to wash my hair and brush my teeth. I get clumsy and drop things. My wrists will feel weaker and less able to grasp. This has been a problem for me off and on since 2010.
I’m not sure if I mentioned my Raynaud’s Phenomenon diagnosis from the nurse practitioner at my rheumatologist’s office.
Basically the blood vessels constrict blood flow to my hands and feet for absolutely no good reason, (because that’s how something with the word “phenomenon” in the name works). It hurts really bad when the blood flow returns to the area. I’m sure most people who live in colder climates know that feeling well.. you’ve just spent some time outside building a snowman or some other such thing, you come into the warm house and take off your cold wet gloves, as your fingers start to warm up again, you feel that stinging burning sensation. It’s like that except it doesn’t take much to trigger it.
I’ve been thinking about getting a gym membership and trying out swimming for some low impact exercise. I can’t even do the littlest amount of exercise or the bursitis in my right hip starts coming back. Maybe I should try the injection for that too… I need to read up on it some more.
I had a bunch of blood work done and I’m not sure what all was ruled out specifically(it was a lot) but it is not autoimmune connective tissue disease like lupus, rheumatiod arthritis, or sjorgrens. My vitamin D was very low so I’m taking a once a week supplement for a few months then switching to a daily.
I also keep getting tendonitis pain in my feet, like the tops of my feet so I’m going to try to pay more attention to my shoes as it can be caused from pressure on the top of the foot from shoes. Fun stuff right?
I would love to know if there is something big picture that’s causing or connected to all these little things.
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