Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - Anyone else?

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I'm currently 23 weeks pregnant and have been struggling with HG since I fell pregnant & Carpal Tunnel Syndrome for the past 4 weeks. I've been hospitalised for my HG recently and my midwife really hasn't been bothered about any of it.

I finally have a doctors appointment this week to get steroid injection in my hands for the carpal tunnel as I cannot take the medication due to not being safe for pregnancy and I've completely lost use of my left hand and my right is on it's way out.

I wanted to find out, if anyone else has suffered with carpal and if so what helped you? And did you find the weight gain from the water retention tremendous?

I have gained nearly 2 stone in weight gain already however I don't look like I have gained that much so I'm assuming it's the water retention? all my midwife said when I asked was that I've put on too much weight and need to eat less (I'm sick all day every day I'm barely eating) so I'm sure it has to be the water retention?

I had carpal tunnel syndrome really badly with 2 of my 3 pregnancies. I wore wrist supports (bought from Amazon) over night which really (really) helped. It completely went away, but only when I wasn't breastfeeding any more.

Yes I’ve had it the last 6 weeks or so (I’m 31 weeks now). What helps me is icing both wrists before bed and wearing compression gloves and bandages and wrist braces at night. I was getting a lot of pain at night that was stopping me from sleeping. I still get a little bit of pain in my left wrist most nights which is helped by hanging it out of bed. Hope the steroid injections help you!

Oh and I have a bit of swelling which I assume is what’s causing it - but I haven’t put on loads of weight - around 7kg so far. My left hand is a bit deformed from childhood arthritis so I guess that’s making it worse in that hand.