Me and my arthritis again ��....anyone's fingers lock up when chopping food etc?

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Hi, just wondering if anyone has fingers that lock straight when too much pressure is put on them. I was chopping food last night and my index finger kept locking straight then it would after a few seconds pop back to normal!?
I've got psoriatic arthritis and there's actually a slight indentation over the finger joint and I think it's a tendon which is getting stuck? It's not exactly painful but I think it will be eventually. I have swollen knuckles from my arthritis but my next appt. isn't until June! ??

Ready chopped vegetables make life much easier although I have trouble pulling the bag open ....

How ridiculous is it tho, it does actually make me laugh at times. I try to be healthy so buy veg and chop it to make a lovely soup = days of suffering due to sore hands. I start yoga to try and help my joints = end up in pain and not sure if being hypermobile in certain joints is making things worse. It's like a vicious bloody circle!
That's life I suppose and we have to get on regardless. Chin up an all that ha! Stupid frickin Arthur, gets right on my tits!!

Well I had a trigger finger for a while, it locked but in a bent position.

I have two lots of wrist splints - the ones for during the day that I never use, and some 'resting' splints - they hold my hands in a neutral position and really help.

Another thing that helped, I wasn't intending it to, it just happened, was learning British Sign Language,

I really, really like my new wrist splints! I've only had them a month or two and they make a massive difference to what I can do. They leave my palms and knuckles free and support my thumbs (which are barely opposable these days ). My hands are still ok for chopping; I just have to sit down to do it!

denial, thanks. Things have moved fast for me, after years of problems but no diagnosis. I was diagnosed with HMS last August, then multi-site arthritis was confirmed in Feb. I'm having a hip replacement next week, so most attention has been on that, and the rheumy discharged me to the care of the orthopaedic surgeon and told me to get myself re referred after surgery if I needed to. I swing between thinking that I really ought to know if I have PsA, because there are different treatment options, and thinking that I have enough going on and I don't care what my diagnosis is right now so long as things are happening to reduce my pain and increase my mobility...