Dequervains tenosynovitis

[KuldeepDab]

My wife has de quervain's tenosynovitis from last 5 months. Now it's getting worse day by day. She is taking physiotherapy from 2 weeks but no relief till now. Is there any permanent treatment for this problem to cure from the root?

I've not heard of anyone getting that as a postnatal symptom before. Have they said how it's related?

I got that - it was so painful

Only thing that fixed it was wearing wrist braces at night

www.wristsupports.co.uk/standard-wrist-brace.html

These were the best ones I was given - it was over 20 years ago now so treatment might have changed but these helped a lot

I had it after having my eldest. I suffered for 8 long, painful months having a steroid injection into my wrist which stopped the pain completely within days!

Prior to that, I wore a wrist strap, took anti-inflammatories and had physio but nothing worked.

It is pregnancy related, to do with the hormone called relaxin which loosens ligaments.

BEFORE having a steroid injection I meant.

I had it in both wrists after my 1st, I could barely pick my baby up, it was excruciating! I had steroid injections, which were painful but I was willing to give anything a try by that point as wrist supports were useless. Within a week the pain was gone and didn't return.

It is horrendously painful isn't it! And you're having to pick up a baby all the time. Tbh it doesn't get better unless it's treated because the baby gets heavier and the thumb is put under more pressure