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Originally Posted by heybro
be very careful! if you are in the early stages, you have a lot going for you. once you get too far, is very hard to climb out.
stop using this mouse until you find a solution. quit your job if needed. i wish i would have stopped day 1, i may not have got so buried.
anyways, can you do voice recognition / dragon software?
get a different non-mouse intensive job?
you are in a good place, choose your next move wisely. DO NOT IGNORE YOUR BODY OR PAIN.
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This really is the hard truth... I wish doctors & PTs would be very very clear to us on this....
BUT...
After my severe bi lateral "RSI wrist strains" in 1999, a top Portland ortho did suggest that I might have problems later on if I returned to the same work..and one other dr suggested the same thing..
But since I did heal after 2 months off work & 8 months of "light duty".. I did request to go back to my previous assembly job ( more money, more interesting & missed my coworkers) plus the job they had moved me to was very limited and boring.
I lasted about 3 years til TOS hit me full blast ,but had bouts with shoulder/neck strains" each of those years.
So for me it was wrist/hands RSI, then shoulder/neck strains, then it all combined - hands/arms/neck/shoulders/elbows/upperback, I didn't know anything about TOS back then..no drs even mentioned it.
And don't cover up the pain by popping OTC pain pills (Advil, Ibuprofen, Tylenol, Aleve etc) just to get by and keep working.
That is a bad idea, been there done that..messed my tummy/gut up too.
