..in my hands.
At times there is pain as well as tingling. DOesn’t bother me too much with my typing, but lack of accurate sensation (eg, if extracting a small pill from a bottle in days past, I couldn’t tell how many pills I had in my fingers, but I could tell that I had *something* there)—has made typing error-ridden.
On the other hand, (bad pun) I have days when I just have to get something done and charge ahead anyway. And it can mean a day of pain with the hands.
To counter this I take a little Advil at night, plus a slew of vitamins and minerals, and slather my hands with CBD cream (hemp, not the intoxicating substance)combined with stuff to fight dryness. And lately a vitamin K cream. And of course the exercise I get typing is there, too.
Just the last few days I have waked with half my left hand feeling fairly normal (the worst are thumb, index finger and second finger) —and this morning the right hand also felt pretty good. Typing is certainly easier with something more like sensation in all fingers—even the ones that aren’t good are better.
So while this condition can last forever, there’s some indication that I’m going to recover more than I have. and there’s a chance I might actually recover from it. My handwriting is near normal. If I could get the rest back I could sketch and play music again, and that would be a plus. Plus just being able to work with cold water and not have to warm my hands for an hour afterward. I have a nice little handwarmer, which helps, but improvement in circlation would be a real plus!
That is fantastic news. I’m glad the regimen is helping — here’s all the good wishes for your hands to be fully restored soon!
CJ, your problems of pain from your hands being in cold water sounds like Raynaud’s phenomenon. Caffeine makes it worse. Inositol (vitamin B8) might help. It’s OTC. Also Omega 3’s and vitamin E (the kind labeled “D”, not the kind labeled “D, L”) Can you wear rubber gloves when you have your hands in cold water? Of course, this solution might be impractical if the cold water in question involves being up to your armpits in an aquarium . . .
Seems like “normalcy” of any kind has gotten pretty thin on the ground these days. Glad you are managing to find some. Good nutrition, judicious self-coddling, and tincture of time may yet do the trick.
The old normal was nice. I liked it. Unfortunately, the world seems bent on arbitrarily and inopportunely replacing it at random intervals with a “new normal” which never seems to be as good as, nor quite the same as what was just fine to begin with. I find it disgruntling. In fact, it’s getting to the point where I’ve been disgruntled for so long I’ve forgotten what gruntled feels like anymore, which is sad, really.
I looked up Raynaud’s syndrome. Syndrome: there’s a scary word.
Syndrome (medical): “We don’t have a clue!”
The differential diagnosis–is it Raynaud’s or is it something else–made me feel like I got mugged by the Merck Manual (a standard doc’s reference, now online).
CJ, note any other symptoms like differences in color between okay and poor fingers, but besides that, if it gets worse or continues, please see your doc.
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On BCS’s thought below, my Android phone is pretty good about taking down speech. Once when I woke it up to check something and a friend kept talking, it transcribed his speech perfectly (and ignored me). You could use distinctive words for invented words, then search and replace. But typing is faster, of course.
CJ, have you tried voice/speech to text, computer dictation, for typing? I don’t know how it would handle alien or other science fiction words, or if other languages would confuse it. You might have to spell out your own invented words. But it might be worth a shot, if typing is too much of a problem sometimes.
I have been wondering about text-to-speech and speech-to-text for myself, given how my eyesight is going, but I haven’t really tried it yet. Besides Dragon Naturally Speaking, there are others out there. I’m not sure what’s still out there for Windows or Macintosh; I know the Mac and iPd and iOS have Siri as well as some other features built-in. I recall you use Windows. Maybe an Android / Google app for Windows would help?
I’m so glad that is helping I recall capsaicin from various chili peppers, in a capsaicin cream, used to be a recommendation.
Best Wishes! Very glad you are powering through.
ReadyGuy and I are fully vaccinated as are ReadySon and ReadyDaughter-in-Law. ReadyDaughter on the other hand is one of the few people I know of who had one of the rare bad reactions. She had a large welt (tennis-ball size) on her arm accompanied by heat, pain, fever, and tiredness. After four days she went to a clinic which happily had a doctor familiar with Moderna side effects. ReadyDaughter will be getting her 2nd dose of Moderna the week of your anniversary. Hopefully her reaction will be much less pronounced. She is trained in molecular and cellular biology and says she is happy to be immunized.
We are relieved to be able to go out to grocery shop. I still haven’t ventured to any indoor locations other than doctor’s offices and the grocery store. I had cataracts removed from both my eyes and a lesion removed from my arm (results of biopsy pending). This COVID time has been a time of introspection and paying attention to the messages my body has been sending. I’m in the best condition I’ve been in for years.
Ready, I’m so glad you got your cataract surgery and things are doing well. My eyes are driving me nuts today.
Here’s hoping your hands return to normalcy.
Surprisingly, my mom reports that CBD oil (the hemp variety) seems to be helping with creaky legs, especially knees, and stiff hands. If a very pragmatic farmer’s daughter says that something that smacks (to her) of hippie-dom is helping, there is likely something there.
DH’s sister is bringing her family to Oahu at the end of the month, so we are taking our first excursion off island in 3+ years. DH and I are both fully vaccinated, so the usual quarantines can be bypassed, thankfully. We are making arrangements to see friends we haven’t seen in several years, so yippee!
Well, with three types of arthritis, I can relate to the hands not working properly. At present, I’m keeping the rheumatoid arthritis at bay with regular medications. I did try CBD for several months, and it did nothing for me, at least, that I could tell.
This morning, I went out shopping, and pulled a shopping cart out of the line, turned it so I could grip the handle, and somehow, twisted my little finger on the left hand. I thought at first I’d broken it, there was that much pain. But the pain was in the mid-joint, where my osteoarthritis is prevalent, so I’m thinking I either scraped the bones together very hard, or I broke off a small chip in the joint.
My right elbow has not healed yet from the surgery of May 27 last year. He said 10 – 12 months, and that’s coming up soon. I’ve tried using it more, and it seems to be getting stronger, but I pay for it at night when I go to bed. The day’s activities catch up with me and I can’t find a comfortable position to place that arm.
Not much I can do about the osteoarthritis, but at least, there are treatments for the RA and gout that also afflict me.
Not a good day. — 2nd time to write a post, lost power three times. — Too long, keeping it shorter.
I called the apartment complex after receiving a notice yesterday dated from Friday, calling for me to vacate and be evicted, showing the remaining balance due, and claiming the current mgmt. either doesn’t have records of the previous mgmt’s sending in assistance applications, or they (new mgmt.) show incomplete forms, and reiterating to come in and resolve it.
I didn’t get very far with the young asst. mgr.; my eyes are giving me fits today. I discovered I couldn’t read the notice I’d read yesterday, to read it back to her, trying to get my eyes, the lamp, phone, magnifier, and printout notice all in focus and lit. Still couldn’t read it. This took a minute. The young lady got impatient, repeated everything we’d discussed so far, and was again untrue in saying they don’t have the assistance forms or a way to get them. (The previous mgmt., Mr. Patel, who’d been helping me, has said he’s emailed them recently, besides having talked to her. But he’s still at another office under the same landlord / owner / investment company. Not like this office can’t get ahold of him to get records copied or confirmed.) And the eviction notice, like the others from the new mgmt., makes no mention of the moratorium on evictions, federal, state, and county court mandated. The notice says there were assistance forms under the previous management. It reflects payments made through the other friend, Mr. Martinez. So…. Since I’d been hung up on, and since previous tries to have someone come over, escort me over to the office to talk, pay, or fill out assistance forms were never fulfilled by the office (the young lady) who claims she did not….
I wrote a letter outlining things, that they could get the forms, that people’s forms had not yet been processed or disbursed and were pending, but that thet meant they were there to be done; and that Mr. Martinzez had worked out a payment agreement on my behalf, had made at least two payment they office signed off on and was to come by this Friday to pay again. I said at this point, I don’t feel I can trust the office to keep their word, and that I’d send copies to both Mr. Patel and Mr. Martinez — and to the investment company / owner / landlord’s office, so people could know it wasn’t just me making things up.
I still have to locate that address and email. I looked, but couldn’t locate where I’d gotten the case numbers or contact info for the Baker Ripley and Texas Rental Assistance programs, or Mr. Patel’s email address. So those are still to do. — But the printed letter was mailed to the office this afternoon and I emailed it to them, plus to Mr. Martinez.
My eyes are very tired and blurry and driving me nuts all day. I do hope this is not the “new normal.”
I figured I’d take off the rest of the afternoon, then found it was after 6pm, so I’ve been busy at least 10 hours today on this, a full work day, over just this one thing.
My power has gone off and on three times since 6pm, and so this is my 3rd try to post a note here.
My friend Mr. Martinez, after hearing me out, said yes, let’s just concentrate on looking for a new place for me to move to. I said good, regardless that I still have too much stuff, still working on it. He thinks it would be better to devote money to the new place and the move, rather than further payments to the office. The office is certainly aware they received payments but keeps demanding payment or threatening eviction. They are ignoring they can’t evict right now, and they are not acknowledging that they can get or already have proof of the previous assistance applications forms. Her claim that she looked all of them up and didn’t find anything also proves that. Duch. But Mr. Patel is at a different office for the same parent company. She, the office, current management can get the proof they claim they don’t have or can’t get or is insufficient. But instead, they are harassing me and others (presumably) to pay everything in full or be evicted right now, as if they can do so.
So I sent the letter. — I did not lose my temper; I didn’t yell. All I did was laugh when it got too ridiculous. And yes, I paused when I couldn’t read the notice out to her, because I was trying to read it. (I scanned it, but misaligned he scann=s.)
So I have spent all day trying to resolve what should not be a problem in the first place, just because they want to strong-arm people. I am pretty sure they can’t do that. They can stretch things, but they are bound by current mandated moratorium, and they shouldd also be bound to wait until assistance forms are processed and disbursed, rather than demanding tenants pay those first.
All in all, I’m heartily sick of this going on constantly, of trying to talk to them, deal reasonably, and not getting a straight answer, with them not following through when they say they’d help with forms, escort over to the office and so on.
I’m tired of being messed with. — I do get discouraged and frustrated. I make mistakes; sometimes I drop the ball and have to get going again. I’m not able to see things well enough lately that I used to be able to see and do for myself. I cannot help that and I’m entitled to basic decency, as well as he Americans with Disabilities Act and other later legislation I don’t recall. And I’m probably making lots of typos, because I can’t see much of what I’m tying and going too fast.
I said as much in the letter and email, because even if that’s a mistake, it needed to be said. They should not be treating me or anyone else like this. Tenants can’t help what’s happened. We are all in a very abnormal situation, with the pandemic, lockdown, economy affected, and people have lost jobs, income, savings, and are genuinely trying to recover. That the current new management refuses to see that while the previous management did, is astonishing, but well, I’m also not too surprised.
So…I will stay until my lease sup and then go month-to-month until I can get a new place and move. I hope this will work out. I am so, so tired of this always coming back on me, every time I think it’s finally solved. I had thought that the new assistance application being sent in, and the payments and agreement, would resolve this. But no, they are still going for it. — So I will be giving notice and moving when I can, which may not be until after my current lease is up anyway.
I hope the move will be permanent, but it looks to me like if I have to do a temp move for a year or more, then fine, if it gets me out of this nonsense.
I am tired of moving, tired of always having boxes around, tired of my future being so always uncertain, for a place to live, people as friends and support and someone to live with, a job and income and assistance. — I am tired of my own crap, too, of course. I wish I could do better. But I am more tired of being hassled like this, when it is not my fault and I can’t do much to control it or solve it, and I am trying. Delaying me by harassing me, not cool.
I said that if they keep this up, that more and more of their tenants will move out, leaving them with vacancies and no payments on those units. It wold be better to work with people so they can get back on their feet and pay off their balances, than to hassle them or to force them to move out, or to decide they’ve had enough and move.
So…dnag. — I’m done for the night. I want to rest my eyes. But I am too ticked off to really rest yet. I need to wind down first.
I hope everyone else’s day ws better than this mess. I desperately want to get everything done and get back to a life. I can only do so much at a time. I ope I can make it. At least I’ve had the local help, and the help from folks here n the blog. That has been tremendous. I haven’t heard from my cousin or uncle and haven’t called them. I don’t really expect anything there. My uncle and aunt have their own problems. My cousin and his wife are struggling financially and the last call, he was sympathetic, but too busy, preoccupied. I don’t really expect help fro them.
Goober and Brindleare OK. The power has stayed on a wile now.
I’m done for the night. I hope tomorrow iwlll be better. I hope I can sleep in a while. Going to fix food later.
Hope things will improve this week, but looks like the apartments won’t be resolved any time soon. FRELL. Tomorrow’s gotta be better than today was. just gotta keep going.
Wish me well, folks. I’ve had my limit for today. Sorry to spout off to everyone. I hope you all are doing better.
I can relate, though my situation isn’t as serious as yours. Despite the bulging / torn disk, I garden. It’s compulsive. Actually, the more walking I do, the better I feel. And thanks for the CBD (or CDB, can’t keep it straight) cream suggestion. I can’t take Nsaids, and turmeric and CBD may get me by the next couple years while I do PT and heal. Curious about Vitamin K cream now too.