To cut it off with the bread knife?

[BloodyBollockingHell]

My right hand that is.

Carpal tunnel. Been getting worse since christmas. Plague meant Ive ignored it since march and now its got really really horribly painful and I simply dont know what to do with myself. Nope to mention the fact that I am very very right handed and its making life quite difficult.It really fucking hurst.
Obv going to ring the bloody GP tomorrow but assume it’ll be years before anyone can actually inject it or cut it off properly. So in the mean time I’m thinking I could watch a YouTube tutorial and have a go myself.
There’s a bottle of Buckfast under the sink i could neck first and I’d do it in the bathroom so easy cleaning up afterwards.

YABU perhaps wait for a real medical professional and anaesthetic
YANBU neck to Bucky and film it

Alternatively tell me what the fuck i can do to stop it hurtuing

@BloodyBollockingHell

YABU perhaps wait for a real medical professional and anaesthetic YANBU neck to Bucky and film it

Alternatively tell me what the fuck i can do to stop it hurtuing

Just call the GP or 111

Phone your GP and make sure he or she realises how bad it is. Also to remove temptation send the Bucky to me, I'll take care of it

You need to contact your GP. In the meantime a wrist splint or support can help

Got a splint. It worked a while back butt sadly no more

You do need to see a gp and keep at them about it. I had surgery about two years back, I had let it get pretty bad! Wrist splint will help, I also took naproxen which helped while I was waiting on the surgery. Other than the post op pain I had immediate relief from the pain and numbness from the carpal tunnel itself.
Hope you get it sorted op!

Ah sorry see you have a splint x

Have you tried tens? It may not help, but who knows?

I think sawing it off with a bread knife will be too hard. You need an axe.

A bread knife wouldn't be my tool of choice (but then our bread knife is a very cheap Asda one that can't actually even cut bread).

Sorry, op but it wouldn't work. You'd most probably get phantom limb syndrome and still be able to 'feel' your amputated hand!

@Oysterbabe

I think sawing it off with a bread knife will be too hard. You need an axe.

GP. Stat. Wonder if they’d do you one of those silicone (am I making this up??) injections as a precursor to surgery if waiting lists for surgery are months long. My SIL had the injection which really helped. I had CT and had to have the release surgery done so I completely empathise, it must be bloody awful. Please fgs go to your doctor and get the ball rolling you poor thing.

I've had surgery on both wrists, I feel your pain

I’d be very happy to try steroid injections before amputation.
I’ve left it and ignored it because I’m a nob and the plague got in the way but it really bastard hurts now.

I believe carving knives are the choice of farmers’ wives.

Cutting off your hand with a breadknife is just the talk of a crazy person.

Obsidian knife, obviously.

@makingmammaries

I believe carving knives are the choice of farmers’ wives.

I'd go with a meat cleaver I think.

OP, what pain relief are you on? I've just had an awful bout of sciatica and it took me 3 goes with the GP and 111 (on a particularly bad Saturday afternoon when I couldn't move an inch without screaming) to get something that actually worked.

My obsidian is at the cleaners. I do have a Valyrian letter opener.

I’ve had some slightly old naproxen but ran out yesterday.

I had really that really bad because of a ganglion.
sitting in a car was agony with the vibrations.
steroid injections helped a bit. and then of course rest. I was in a cast for a couple of weeks as last try before surgery (which wasn't needed in the end)

Have you had your thyroid levels tested????

Classic symptom. Used to drive me nuts but now i'm on 125mcg of thyroxine a day and it doesn't happen at all.

For giggles, try and do it with a tin opener, film it and then put it on youtube or tiktok

Or you could try just nibbling through.....if you're feeling hungry. Mice do it, according to legend.

Or slam it in the car door? (Has the advantage of speed)
Will you be able to manage the breadknife in your left hand if you are very right-handed?