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I am a 25 year old who enjoys playing video games. I compete in video game tournaments and i love to challenge myself by speedrunning (the act of completing video games super fast). I also workout fairly regularly. I do have bad knees from a structural issue in my legs and born with 1 kidney. I believe i may have symptoms of TMS, or at the least i wanted to get my story out there if nothing else. This is a long post, but i feel if i don't get my thoughts here now, i won't do it otherwise.
I first experienced pain in my right thumb about a year ago and after seeing a doctor, i took a prescription of ibuprofen, iced it down for 2 weeks and it disappeared. At that time i was working a steady job in retail, and i didn't think much of the pain. During the year or so since, i attended many events, continued working my job, and playing, and i never experienced much outside the occasional pain of overdoing it. So from like 2018-early 2020, nothing really happened, things were ok.
Right around March 2020, the covid virus happened and i think i hit some kind of depression. I had quit my job in February and i almost had a new job lined up and then everything shut down. I wasn't hanging out with my friends, or going to videogame events. I was stuck at home, and i ended up playing more videogames, i ended up doing more speedrunning type stuff. About a month ago, around June 5-7th i was participating in a charity speedrunning marathon playing games and my hands hurt like crazy afterwards. During the same time of all this playing videogames, i was doing yard work almost every day, so the long hours of yard work plus all the videogaming i would do for hours after....... i must have done a number on my hands cause they hurt like crazy on that weekend of June 5-7th.
It hurt to use a computer. I had to stop using a computer for three weeks cause it hurt so bad. I had to use a cellphone instead to look up anything and that's not much better for my hands im sure but i had no choice. The only activities i could do were watch tv, and do some house chores. The only videogame i could play is Animal Crossing New Horizons, a very casual game that is easier on my hands compared to what i was doing. This game is also probably the only thing that kept me sane during all the pandemic lockdown stuff that's been going on. I still play it now, but its getting harder to play it too...... I went on a month long process to try and give my hands time to heal and things were looking good up until around July 13, a week ago.
I had heard experiences of others who competed in Super Smash Bros Melee and Ultimate (games i have played) experiencing carpal tunnel, arthritis, cubital tunnel, tendonitis.....ect and one player named Aziz or Hax$ (what people in the gaming community knew him by) had problems so bad his tendons literally calcified in one of his hands and he got thumb arthritis on one of his hands. And i felt i had one of these issues, and if i didn't tackle it, i would end up like Hax$
I made an appointment with the best rated hand doctor in my area for July 13th and by the time i had the appointment, my hand was doing better, but still not great. Hand doctor was nice, but mentioned i had "minor tendonitis". During the appointment, they did some kind of test that required hitting my median nerve on my right hand, (the one hand i was experiencing the worst pain in) and leaving the appointment that day, my hand felt terrible and i had a prescription for a corticosteroid, methylprednisolone. The doctor said i should feel better after using it. I had to take 6 the first day, 5 the next, and so on. Im just about done with my 5th day on this stuff, and i swear today was the worst i've felt. Pain in hands aside, i just went through having a lot of the side effects and i don't ever want to use this stuff again. Neck, back, shoulder pain all over from just doing normal activity that i can easily do. This flushed feeeling in my face, and just overall a constant headache from this stuff.
Ok now how i got here. There is a speedrunner Simply, who runs Super Mario 64, a videogame that requires a lot of hand motion. He had to take a year or two off due to having carpal tunnel and getting surgery in one of his hands. It wasn't getting better until someone mentioned another person who played Super Smash Bros Melee named Silentwolf cured his hand problems with the Mindbody Prescription and applying the teachings. Simply tried it out, and apparently he's back to doing full time Twitch streaming, and playing the game with pretty much no issues.
I am sitting here, typing this with pain all over. My hands are tight, my neck and back are burning and tight and im unsure of what to do. I was tested for RA a year ago with my thumb issue, and nothing was found. I'm not sure if i need to get tested again..........I go back for a followup with the hand doctor in a month, he said he might want to put me back on that medicine, if i didn't have any improvements and i don't want to experience the day i had today again, my whole body just felt like it was on fire, and i haven't been able to return to any activities i enjoy doing.
During the time of the lockdown of the pandemic, i tried to do some personal reflection and came to realize a lot of things about myself but i feel there is still a lot im repressing. I believe im heavily depressed or something. I have a lot of self doubt and confidence issues that make me fear a lot of things that i may or may not go further into in other posts.
I'm afraid i may have arthritis and that i'll never be able to return to enjoying videogames again.
I'm sorry this is long, i take the last of the medicine i'm on tomorrow, then after that I'm on my own again and I've decided to post here, hoping someone hears it cause I'm too afraid to go back to work, or do any hobbies i enjoy doing.
This is what im experiencing:
Pain, very minor tingliness, wrist popping, joint pain when doing mostly computer or videogame related activities, but now im noticing it when doing other activities as well, such as housechores, or other tasks. It's not to the point of being unbearable but its certainty not comfortable at all
Im considering going to a rheumatologist and get retested for RA or other issues. I've never had a MRI or Xrays of my hands. My hand doctor didn't think i had carpal tunnel, but even reading some of the posts here on the TMS wiki, im not even sure what I'm dealing with anymore.......
Thank you to whoever reads this............Im too afraid to speak up to my parents (they only help so much and not quite understanding of how much this affects me)
I first experienced pain in my right thumb about a year ago and after seeing a doctor, i took a prescription of ibuprofen, iced it down for 2 weeks and it disappeared. At that time i was working a steady job in retail, and i didn't think much of the pain. During the year or so since, i attended many events, continued working my job, and playing, and i never experienced much outside the occasional pain of overdoing it. So from like 2018-early 2020, nothing really happened, things were ok.
Right around March 2020, the covid virus happened and i think i hit some kind of depression. I had quit my job in February and i almost had a new job lined up and then everything shut down. I wasn't hanging out with my friends, or going to videogame events. I was stuck at home, and i ended up playing more videogames, i ended up doing more speedrunning type stuff. About a month ago, around June 5-7th i was participating in a charity speedrunning marathon playing games and my hands hurt like crazy afterwards. During the same time of all this playing videogames, i was doing yard work almost every day, so the long hours of yard work plus all the videogaming i would do for hours after....... i must have done a number on my hands cause they hurt like crazy on that weekend of June 5-7th.
It hurt to use a computer. I had to stop using a computer for three weeks cause it hurt so bad. I had to use a cellphone instead to look up anything and that's not much better for my hands im sure but i had no choice. The only activities i could do were watch tv, and do some house chores. The only videogame i could play is Animal Crossing New Horizons, a very casual game that is easier on my hands compared to what i was doing. This game is also probably the only thing that kept me sane during all the pandemic lockdown stuff that's been going on. I still play it now, but its getting harder to play it too...... I went on a month long process to try and give my hands time to heal and things were looking good up until around July 13, a week ago.
I had heard experiences of others who competed in Super Smash Bros Melee and Ultimate (games i have played) experiencing carpal tunnel, arthritis, cubital tunnel, tendonitis.....ect and one player named Aziz or Hax$ (what people in the gaming community knew him by) had problems so bad his tendons literally calcified in one of his hands and he got thumb arthritis on one of his hands. And i felt i had one of these issues, and if i didn't tackle it, i would end up like Hax$
I made an appointment with the best rated hand doctor in my area for July 13th and by the time i had the appointment, my hand was doing better, but still not great. Hand doctor was nice, but mentioned i had "minor tendonitis". During the appointment, they did some kind of test that required hitting my median nerve on my right hand, (the one hand i was experiencing the worst pain in) and leaving the appointment that day, my hand felt terrible and i had a prescription for a corticosteroid, methylprednisolone. The doctor said i should feel better after using it. I had to take 6 the first day, 5 the next, and so on. Im just about done with my 5th day on this stuff, and i swear today was the worst i've felt. Pain in hands aside, i just went through having a lot of the side effects and i don't ever want to use this stuff again. Neck, back, shoulder pain all over from just doing normal activity that i can easily do. This flushed feeeling in my face, and just overall a constant headache from this stuff.
Ok now how i got here. There is a speedrunner Simply, who runs Super Mario 64, a videogame that requires a lot of hand motion. He had to take a year or two off due to having carpal tunnel and getting surgery in one of his hands. It wasn't getting better until someone mentioned another person who played Super Smash Bros Melee named Silentwolf cured his hand problems with the Mindbody Prescription and applying the teachings. Simply tried it out, and apparently he's back to doing full time Twitch streaming, and playing the game with pretty much no issues.
I am sitting here, typing this with pain all over. My hands are tight, my neck and back are burning and tight and im unsure of what to do. I was tested for RA a year ago with my thumb issue, and nothing was found. I'm not sure if i need to get tested again..........I go back for a followup with the hand doctor in a month, he said he might want to put me back on that medicine, if i didn't have any improvements and i don't want to experience the day i had today again, my whole body just felt like it was on fire, and i haven't been able to return to any activities i enjoy doing.
During the time of the lockdown of the pandemic, i tried to do some personal reflection and came to realize a lot of things about myself but i feel there is still a lot im repressing. I believe im heavily depressed or something. I have a lot of self doubt and confidence issues that make me fear a lot of things that i may or may not go further into in other posts.
I'm afraid i may have arthritis and that i'll never be able to return to enjoying videogames again.
I'm sorry this is long, i take the last of the medicine i'm on tomorrow, then after that I'm on my own again and I've decided to post here, hoping someone hears it cause I'm too afraid to go back to work, or do any hobbies i enjoy doing.
This is what im experiencing:
Pain, very minor tingliness, wrist popping, joint pain when doing mostly computer or videogame related activities, but now im noticing it when doing other activities as well, such as housechores, or other tasks. It's not to the point of being unbearable but its certainty not comfortable at all
Im considering going to a rheumatologist and get retested for RA or other issues. I've never had a MRI or Xrays of my hands. My hand doctor didn't think i had carpal tunnel, but even reading some of the posts here on the TMS wiki, im not even sure what I'm dealing with anymore.......
Thank you to whoever reads this............Im too afraid to speak up to my parents (they only help so much and not quite understanding of how much this affects me)
I'll never forget when an orthopedic surgeon reviewed my MRI of my ankle and said, "Nothing appears to be torn or wrong at all, I'm not sure why you have pain there.." when I could barely walk on it.
