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Wrist pain, lump, ganglions? Help????

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kiwisbird · 19/04/2004 21:17

DH has just told me the agony in my wrist is a ganglion as it now has a lump.
Before I google and scare myself shitless
Anyone else?
Arrgghhh

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Eowyn · 19/04/2004 21:22

ha, this is for me... I don't think I have a ganglion but the Dr thinks I have & wrote (after an x-ray showed nothing) that they can last up to a couple of years & disappear on their own but you may then get another one somewhere else.
However, mine is a lump on my hand & doesn't hurt, don't think they are meant to be painful. I am convinved mine is a bone in the wrong place but as the x-ray says not I'm just stuck with an ugly lumpy hand like an old witch. Nice.
Ganglion is fluid, hence you can hit them to try & disperse it. not something i have nerve to try.

Sounds like yours is something else tho so would get it checked...am losing faith in Drs myself..

AussieSim · 19/04/2004 21:28

I came across this once in my job. I worked for a large heartless consulting firm that hired fresh loads of graduates each year which it promptly worked into the ground. This was in the run up to Y2K and this poor grad worked for two weeks staight at least 10 hours per day just hitting the zero and enter button on a keyboard to correct some code, and yep up came a ganglion.

They don't look right, but besides that don't seem to have much in the way on consequences and if you stop doing what caused them in the first place they should go away quite fast - at least that is what I think his doctor told him.

Is the ganglion as a result of his work? He should report it, claim his medical costs, have his job redesigned or whatever. Good Luck, but don't worry too much.

sammac · 19/04/2004 21:32

Dd had one on each wrist from when she was 5. The gp reckoned they would go away in time, which one of them has, she's now 10. No reason for their appearance, altho' doc said they could be removed with operation. Old fashioned method was dropping a heavy book on them.

It was her grotty party trick to show them off

twiglett · 19/04/2004 21:43

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Heathcliffscathy · 19/04/2004 21:46

owww twiglett.
kiwisbird, i have one of these lumps, middle of wrist, shows up especially when i bend my hand forward. only hurts sometimes, no way am i whacking it with a book tho.

happycat · 19/04/2004 21:48

I had one for three years and had it removed in hospital in the end because it became larege and painfull but if it dosen't hurt I don't think they do any harm at all.Thay don't all get bigger though.

suedonim · 19/04/2004 21:50

Yes, I had ganglions as a teenager - just at the right time for taking O Levels. Mine would come and go, on the same wrist, and could get incredibly painful at times. I used to have it bandaged up for support when it was very bad. Having the family Bible dropped on it was the only remedy back then but they can operate now. I think it's just a bulge in the stuff that lines your wrist joint, which then fills up with fluid.

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kiwisbird · 19/04/2004 21:52

mine is extremely painful wrist has been dodgy for a while now, just noted lump tonight as it has been really sore, limited mibility and cannot pick dd up, is better since resting it.
no way am I whacking it with owt!#
will go to gp tomorrow, thanks
pa am typing one handed hence rubbish grammar....

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twiglett · 19/04/2004 21:59

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kiwisbird · 19/04/2004 22:05

google tells me strap it and rest it... ha ha ha
nappies, washing, house on market, lots of painting still to be done...
I shall blame my newly found addiction to MN
I just today paid a subscription too... I think J C and R are witches deep down LOL

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SEXGODDESS · 19/04/2004 22:18

I had a ganglion for about 8 months. Went to the doctor when I found a lump on the inside of my wrist. He confirmed it was a ganglion and if it didn't go away in a few months to come back. Disgusting as it is, I couldn't help but "fiddle" with it. My wrist also hurt quite a bit on the "top" of my hand. After several months I had a terrific headache and I noticed that day my lump had gone but there was a strange "bubble" under my skin further up the inside of my forearm. Apparently its a leakage of fluid from the joints (according to dr). About a month later I was leaning on my hand (imagine press ups without the press up) and my wrist gave way and clicked. Since then my wrist hasn't hurt so now assume that the joint was misaligned and caused the ganglion. Quite miss messing with it now!!!

Heathcliffscathy · 19/04/2004 22:24

winced several times whilst reading that sexgoddess

deegward · 19/04/2004 22:26

I have had two on the back of my hands, did the old hitting with family bible, except it wasn't it was my dictionary. It worked. Agree with missing messing with it.

samwifewithkid · 19/04/2004 22:48

kiwisbird, does the pain in your wrist seem to come from the joint? If so do you have any other painful joints? How old is your dd?

The reasons I'm asking this is because I have a form of Arthritis and in the past with a "flare up" I have had a painful lump on my wrist. It was on the inside and felt a bit grindy and boney when you move your wrist. The lump was hard and didn't move. Arthritis can flare up after the birth of a child, which is why I was asking dds age.

Let us know how you get on at your GPs appt. as I would be interested to know what it is!

soothepoo · 19/04/2004 23:21

Where is the lump on your wrist? I had a lump at the base of my thumb, very painful to move my hand. Was diagnosed as De Quervain's syndrome - very fancy name for a type of RSI. There is a simple test to see if you have if - hold your hand straight in line with your arm and hold your thumb across the palm of your hand. Now try and tilt your hand downwards - if this is very painful, or if you cannot do this, it is probably De Q's. My hand and forearm were strapped up to keep it immobile, but I found that too limiting - couldn't drive, or pick dd up, so I stopped wearing the strapping, and it eventually cleared up of its own accord, and the lump has gone too. I think the main factor that helped was that I didn't pick dd up so much, as she was getting older and heavier.
If you search on de Quervain's disease, you'll get a few sites.

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kiwisbird · 20/04/2004 09:17

lump is on top of wrist, exactly as google images shows me where it should be, I have had clicky wrists for ages, get pain, flick my wrist back and forth then it clicks back and stops hurting, broke wrist two times as teen, horse riding, so may well be symptomatic of that too.
Whole wrist area is now stiff and really sore. Appt is at 2.50pm so will let you all know after that!
Thanks for replies... save me from thinking I have some wild and wonderful malevolent lump
ps took me ages to type this!

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papillon · 20/04/2004 09:21

could be RSI from too much nusnetting!!

Seriously though my Mum had a lump on her wrist that kept coming back - although I don´t think it hurt her. She just kept getting them removed.

Hope the pain goes away soon

goosey · 20/04/2004 09:26

Me too! I've got a HUGE one on my left wrist that I've had for years. I did get an appointment once to have it removed under a general anaesthetic but chickened out at the last moment. My dh has syringed out some of the clear sticky fluid for me before and that worked very well at reducing it's size. Fascinating. He really enjoyed doing it too. It's still just as big as ever though, but harder and doesn't respond to the syringe any more, so I just live with it. I find that I don't have full flexibility in that wrist and sometimes it does ache a bit, but other than that it causes me no trouble at all. I'm only aware of it when I catch others staring. I do remember it hurting when I first got it, and there have been times in the past (before it went so hard) hen it has spontaneously ruptured under the skin and the dispersing fluid has been quite painful - probably pressing on a nerve.

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kiwisbird · 20/04/2004 15:22

A departure! Doc said that the ganglion wasn't new as it is quite firm, she said the pain radiating where it is is not from the ganglion but that I must have somehow sprained the wrist joint...
Have been decorating ass off and carrying toddler everywhere with shopping bags and tins of paint and timber and stuff, so could be likely story...
So rest it for a few weeks HAHAHA house on market, am being Total Domestic Goddess this week... need to buy a wrost splint, thought the NHS might cough one up but have to go to A+E and god forbid not doing that!
So off to search for one now!

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Stargazer · 20/04/2004 15:44

I've got a ganglion too. Only mine's on my ankle and it's huge!!!! I actually saw a doctor about it and he was amazed by how big it is - sent me for an MRI (just to be sure) and it is. I could have surgery but I'd be left with a hole and it could regrow. So I've learnt to live with it - it's not pretty, but it's not going to hurt me either.

Codswallop · 20/04/2004 16:00

wack it with a bible

It really does work My MUm fgor my brother in law to do it to her - and I can tell you his eyes gleamed as he weilded the book!

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kiwisbird · 20/04/2004 16:07

that would be a bible wallop
ahhh but now it's a sprain on top of the ganglion so no one is whacking nuffink
Wholly appreciate the sentiment coddy...

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