[billy027]

My right hand has experienced 2 failed CTS surgeries, 2 broken fingers, stitches, plexus injury(arm), pain in the back of hand(nerve injuries). Now, I have nasty finger infection; it is very painful. The pain is intense, but hopefully will ease today a bit.
The index finger looks crooked which is probably from previous break. Hopefully, anti-biotics will help ease the infection today.

What is going on with my hand. It attracts every kind of trouble, and I love to write too.

[freetofu]

Well, I can totally relate. I spent 2 years going from doctor to doctor trying to get help for these strange pains in my left arm, after which I broke the very same arm while in a strange country, had it mended incorrectly, and ended up taking another 11 years to get it fixed, before I finally started figuring out what the original problem might have been. It happens...

[tied]

billy i can so relate. my right hand has been through the ringer. injured in car wreck, they put it in a cast for 16 weeks which shrivelled up the muscles. i was holding a horse for someone to get on her. she jerked her head and sprained my wrist. then cts r>l, but no surgery. when my mom died sil slammed my index finger in car door. about 3 finger infections since 2007. that's weird about the infections as i too don't know what the cause is.

[astern]

Please watch out for resistant staph infections, especially those living in warmer climates, like FL or SoCA. I know a guy who had to be hospitalized and nearly died... from a paper-cut! If you have an infection, don't wait around - get it looked at!

[billy027]

I went to family doctor, and she gave me anti-biotics. After 2 days, nothing improved, so I went to the ER on Tuesday night.. They cut, and drained it, saying anti-biotics alone would not help it. The pain is gone but I still have a red, swollen finger. There is a dead spot on it now too. I can't feel anything on the spot. I see hand dr. on Wed.

Is it normal for it still to be red,a nd swollen without pain?

[tshadow]

Billy,

I know what you mean about writing. I was a huge creative writing girl when young. Then, I kept a birthday list of about 80 people and always sent their bday cards on time before my injury. Then, for my senior relatives, I always wrote to them, as receiving a letter was important to them - before my injury...

Now I am not a doctor but this new infection you're talking about has me really worried.

You could have dying tissues - necrophyising tissue? Did you get a bite of some sort?

OR, you could have one of the new nasty infections everyone is warning you about that can be quite fast and quite damaging and move to internal organs.

SO PLEASE go to an ER or clinic today if you have insurance or a few extra bucks and get some high potency, long acting antibiotics - not the short run kind and get some real medical care going. I understand the lancing may have been helpful but I think now you need to stay on say, Cipro (I'm not a doc) until you have improvement on the way.

PLEASE I am worried for you.


How is your finger today???

(As someone so eloquently said, I think it was you, I do not have good luck. It is true, if something is going to be a bum batch, or trouble or stray bullet, it will hit me. But I think of it as GOOD LUCK, that I am like the canary in the mine, the first to feel things, the first to understand that perhaps something like a new drug is not so good, and I write to the powers that be and get action before too many people get hurt. And guess what, I found a doctor in a brand new book who looks like she wants info. on TOS and she's only learned about men and vascular TOS so wait until I track her down and give her a low-down on all of the women with neuro TOS and how it relates to the computer! It is as if GOd answered my prayers almost immediately!!! So yes, I have bad luck, but somehow it always turns into the good...

God bless you and please get that hand looked at again before we hear worse. Love to you.

Is Billy a boy or girl? Can't tell these days from names.

[billy027]

Billy is a boy. Bill or William okay too. The finger still has numb spot, and some discoloration. I am on an antibiotic. The hand has no strenght right now. That happens sometimes from CTS, and other nerve injuries combined with the rain. I am going to watch it closely. I go to hand doctor on Wed.

[Jomar]

I wonder too, if it has something to do with limited blood flow to the hand/arm??

Restricted blood flow could mean less nutrients in and less flow of the bad stuff out of the area.

and /Or

Maybe the "troubles magnet" part has to do with loss of Proprioception??

[Proprioception (pronounced /ˌproʊpri.ɵˈsɛpʃən/ PRO-pree-o-SEP-shən, from Latin proprius, meaning "one's own" and perception) is the sense of the relative position of neighbouring parts of the body. Unlike the six exteroceptive senses (sight, taste, smell, touch, hearing, and balance) by which we perceive the outside world, and interoceptive senses, by which we perceive the pain and movement of internal organs, proprioception is a third distinct sensory modality that provides feedback solely on the status of the body internally. It is the sense that indicates whether the body is moving with required effort, as well as where the various parts of the body are located in relation to each other.]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception

In short - loss of awareness or sense of where body part is.
setts you up for accidents- I would think.

this is interesting too-
http://www.sensory-processing-disord...sfunction.html

[astern]

Just an FYI... another person I know had an infected finger - he waited days in pain before his gf forced him to a Dr. They drained the finger and gave him a course of antibiotics. This was last Friday.

His gf calls me Wednesday am, and they are at the hospital. His finger did not improve, and he was in surgery - they may have had to remove the end of his finger!!!!

Please don't wait around for an appointment if the pain is bad and antibiotics have not made any difference.

[billy027]

Originally Posted by astern

Just an FYI... another person I know had an infected finger - he waited days in pain before his gf forced him to a Dr. They drained the finger and gave him a course of antibiotics. This was last Friday.

His gf calls me Wednesday am, and they are at the hospital. His finger did not improve, and he was in surgery - they may have had to remove the end of his finger!!!!

Please don't wait around for an appointment if the pain is bad and antibiotics have not made any difference.

I don't have much pain, but it is still red, and skin peeled. Doctor said use hot compresses, and neurosporin, and continue taking anti-biotics. I will watch it. I am worried, but it doesn't hurt just looks bad.