Recent content by bluesmuso

Thank you so much for the l Thanks so much for that link. Great reading and indeed astonishing!

Back in August this year I injured my hands at work which worsened my CMC arthritis that I got following a fall at work back in 2018. I even posted a long winded thread about it on here (this one is also long winded too sorry). It has been a difficult time for me. I am a 60 year old male...

I'm feeing really down. Got recent hand x-ray results back...advanced degenerative change both 1st CMC thumb joints. The remainder of the wrist joint is relatively preserved. Doctor has offered a cortisone shot!

Good point about the nervous system jacked up. But I also think that if I hadn't tugged and stretched the shade cloth on those occasions I would have had less problems. It's so annoying when it hurts days after the activity rather than during. If it hurt during the aggravating activity you'd...

Unfortunately the thumb CMC joints have organic/symptomatic damage from the original fall, it is my mental perception of the situation I am trying to rectify. Before the TMS anxiety attack they were always there but I didn't pay that much attention to them. The stability of the injury (never got...

The "new" symptoms on the Saturday were more a new mental focus on symptoms. The actual physical symptoms were more than likely there before...but my reaction to them changed dramatically. I can remember the hands hurting the day before, they often do when I am doing things that are demanding on...

It's astonishing. I journal everything, I can even see the date where it suddenly hit...August 30th I was doing stuff around the house...fixed brakes on car and did my usual Friday night workout. Saturday August 31st the second I woke up it hit with FULL FORCE and I knew I was in trouble. There...

Thanks :)

Thanks for your kind words of encouragement Diana. I am at this time trying to determine the percentage of structural damage (which there unfortunately is) and the percentage of TMS. By removing the part I can control (the TMS), I will be left with less bother than I am currently experiencing. I...

I fell very hard 5 years ago on both hands which I naturally put out to break my fall. Both thumb cmc joints literally took my whole weight as I landed on a hard railway sleeper stepping down from a split level garden bed. I fell about 3 feet. At the time although having bruised palms I regarded...