Do what they tell you post op, ice is a good thing
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Originally Posted by Noah930
One other thing: people on this thread have mentioned avoiding surgery at all costs. If your symptoms are mild and not worsening, that's not unreasonable. But if you have severe carpal tunnel for long enough, permanent nerve damage can occur. So that even with surgery, your hands may never feel normal again. That's not meant to scare anyone, but it's the flip side to waiting. If you're getting atrophy (muscle wasting) of the fleshy muscle in the palm at the base of your thumb (thenar eminence), then you've waited too long.
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This bears repeating
I damaged my ulnar nerve in a car wreck a few years ago. Sporadic numbness, no muscle atrophy/loss of strength=watchful waiting.
Nerves heal almost as poorly as cardiac tissue, which doesn't really heal well at all. Break your ankle, we can screw that baby back together almost as good as new. Badly damage a nerve and you are pretty much screwed. If you are lucky it is just numb.