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Warren wrote in message et...

While I look forward to seeing you again, please be prepared for my
questions regarding the surgery that your wife went under. I need both
wrists done and am putting it off due to some of the horror stories I
have heard..... :-(

Don't know how bad off you are and I'm no medical doc but it might be
controllable/reversible.

I was in pretty bad pain while finishing my phd, using pads, wrist
splints, anything I could to try to help. Nothing did...until I did
the following:

1. Change the way I typed. Holding wrists up in the air and having
hands level with my arms was VERY important. Your CT might be from
some other activities, but I think alot of the problems are from bad
"posture" of the wrists in whatever we are doing.

2. Changed the way I slept. No more curling the hands under a pillow.
Sleep with flat hands straight wrists and straight fingers.

3. Iced my wrists nightly for about two months. Serious ice. Fill
some styrofoam cups about 2/3, place in freezer, use one a night.
Peel back styrofoam and apply to wrists, past the point of pain.

I've been "clean" nigh on eight years now. I realize some people
have real problems that can only be corrected through surgery, but
I can vouch that you can be in serious pain and seemingly no hope,
and recover on your own.

Jon.