Hi Girls,
hope everyone is doing well. I was just wondering whether anyone else is suffering from this. I have only developed it this week, apparently it is quite common in women during the last 2 months of pregnancy and is caused by all the extra fluid in your body pressing on the median nerve which runs through your wrist. It causes numbness, pins & needles and pain in your wrist, thumb, index and middle finger and can give shooting pains up your arm. It is usually worse during the night. I have it in both hands and it is giving me terrible trouble. The only relief I can get is by flicking both hands like a mad woman drying nail polish!!
Apparently it can affect as many as 1 in 3 pregnancies and the symptoms usually disappear within a couple of months of the birth, however in extreme cases surgery may be needed!!
The joys of pregancy eh !! Still wouldn't swap it for the world
Love Julie xx
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Phew
got away with that - sorry to hear you are suffering
Love
Tracey
xxx
got away with that - sorry to hear you are suffering
Love
Tracey
xxx
ttc 9 years. 38 yrs old, dh 8 hrs younger!First IVF in Aug 2002 and had ectopic.2nd IVF neg.3rd FET and negative.4th FET and positive but sadly lost our little boy at 20 weeks.5th FET and Alice Isobel and Emily Charlotte born 5th Aug 2004!
HI gals,
I haven't ahd the carpal tunnel signs, but I'm an occupational therapist who works in hand therapy, so I see lots of pregnant women with this presentation..It's caused by the median nerve (runs through your wrist into the palm) being squashed in the carpal tunnel because of extra fluid we all retain when we're pregnant..I treat it with splinting, I use the off-the shelf pharmacy type wrist splints with an aluminium "stay" or flat piece that sits across the wrist, limits extremes of wrist bending which makes the median nerve really really squashed..Alternatively (if it gets really really bad) a hand therapist (found at most major hospitals or in private practice) can make a thermoplastic splint that is moulded for your wrist, it's more rigid and a bit harder to sleep in, but I reckon 85% of women get great relief just from the soft wrist splint option so don't end up needing this
Hope that this helps
Belinda
I haven't ahd the carpal tunnel signs, but I'm an occupational therapist who works in hand therapy, so I see lots of pregnant women with this presentation..It's caused by the median nerve (runs through your wrist into the palm) being squashed in the carpal tunnel because of extra fluid we all retain when we're pregnant..I treat it with splinting, I use the off-the shelf pharmacy type wrist splints with an aluminium "stay" or flat piece that sits across the wrist, limits extremes of wrist bending which makes the median nerve really really squashed..Alternatively (if it gets really really bad) a hand therapist (found at most major hospitals or in private practice) can make a thermoplastic splint that is moulded for your wrist, it's more rigid and a bit harder to sleep in, but I reckon 85% of women get great relief just from the soft wrist splint option so don't end up needing this
Hope that this helps
Belinda
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