Don't want to hi jack just a couple quick questions (free medical advice). I spent two weekends (12 hours a day) installing bowed and twisted hardwood flooring with an air nailer (you press the flooring down and then hit it with a hammer). Probably about 6000 nails. The second weekend when I quit Sunday my hands were swollen.
Now two months later I feel occasional numbness in my thumb and index finger and wake at night with pain in my hands, sometimes one sometimes both sometimes severe. Is this carpal tunnel syndrome? Why both hands? Did this cause it? Is this how yours started? Will it get better on its own?
When I run a long distance (> 1 hour) I sometimes feel a numbness in my hands similar to what I feel frequently now. I read this was due to lack of blood flow to extremities. Was this really CTS?
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Originally Posted by matt f
Further confirmation would involve wasting of the median N. innervated muscles, primarily,but not limited to the thenar eminence.
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This has me worried especially the word wasting. Would this show up if you moved your thumb and it feels like something catches in the meaty part at the base of your thumb?