Been to see doc about tingles...

lindalegs

Hi all,

Just an update.

I've been a good girl and did as you suggested and took my tingling, buzzing fingers down to see the GP. I have ulna nerve entrapment at the elbow joint which, apparently, is like carpel tunnel syndrone but in the elbow instead of the wrist.

He suggested I phone my Rheumy to get an earlier appointment but to tide me over has given me Water Tablets to see if it reduces the inflammation.

If I seem a bit quieter than usual it's because I'll be sitting on the loo having yet another wee :shock:

Thanks for the advice everyone.

Luv Legs

suzster

i'm glad your gp is trying to help, fingers crossed you start seeing, well feeling in improvement soon. make sure you have plenty of loo rolls for your many trips!!!
sue

skezier

Hi Legs,

Glad you went and hope it will settle and stop soon.

Shall I talk to you about water falls, pools, rivers and the sea then........

You take care, Luv Cris x

denpen

Hi Legs
Good to get it sorted at least you know what it is now (good GP you got) its amazin how much water we hold just think of the weight loss (worth takin the tabs for that) mmm may get some of them!! ha ha
Take care
Denise

joyful164

lindalegs wrote:

Hi all,

Just an update.

I've been a good girl and did as you suggested and took my tingling, buzzing fingers down to see the GP. I have ulna nerve entrapment at the elbow joint which, apparently, is like carpel tunnel syndrone but in the elbow instead of the wrist.

He suggested I phone my Rheumy to get an earlier appointment but to tide me over has given me Water Tablets to see if it reduces the inflammation.

If I seem a bit quieter than usual it's because I'll be sitting on the loo having yet another wee :shock:

Thanks for the advice everyone.

Luv Legs

Hi Lindalegs

Well, well, well. Trust you to copy me. Can't I have anything on my own? And I went to the gp also. He has suggested that I have a squashed ulna too in my right elbow and of course Carpul Tunnel in my left hand, which I believe, you have had already. Gosh, isn't it painful? It has gone past the tingling stage with me. More like a burning pain. I saw my own gp at long last and he knows exactly what I am going through.

Anyway, he will be contacting my consultant who I am not suppose to be seeing until 10th Sept. It looks very much like an operation for both. If it is a long waiting list, I am going to try and see how much it would be to get it done privately.

It must be very difficult coping with children and getting everything done. How are you managing?

I've been told to go back onto Clonazepam and he has prescribed Tramadol 50mg and was amazed that the Chronic Pain Dr told me to come straight off patches with prescribing something like Tramadol.

Anyway Lindalegs, all the very best. Keep smiling. Have to don't you?

joyful

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Hi linda
Glad you saw doc, hope you can get to see rhuemy soon.
i hope it is something that can be sorted out without to much difficuitly.
best wishes
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woodbon

Hi, Glad you've seen the doc. Now they will be able to sort you out! The water tablets should keep you busy!

My tingling has gone compleatly now I didn't realise how much I had all day until it had gone and the fingers seem to be more controlled! Just a bit sore and not supposed to lift anything much for a while!

Love Sue

magenta

Hi Lindalegs,
Glad you went to drs. Let us know how you get on.
Magenta x

mistywillow

magenta wrote:

Hi Lindalegs,
Glad you went to drs. Let us know how you get on.
Magenta x

Hi legs
Glad you got your tingles checked out, shame about the loo stops though Hope you dont have to make too many at night time.
love Gillx

magenta

Hiya,
Just wondered how you were getting on with your ulnar nerve problems?
Magenta x

lindalegs

magenta wrote:

Hiya,
Just wondered how you were getting on with your ulnar nerve problems?
Magenta x

Hi Eileen,

I phoned the clinic last Thursday and they slotted me in the very next day :shock: I nearly fell off my chair

My Rheumy gave me a steroid injection into the elbow joint and has said that it should work within 7 - 10 days. If it doesn't he'll refer me for an operation where they'll put the nerve into a more suitable position. So far it's just the same so I have the gut feeling that it's under the knife for me :roll:

Luv Legs

woodbon

Hi Well, you never know, the injections may work wonders! Still at least they can do something about it for you. Take care. Love Sue

frogmorton

HI Legs
Are you still weing? :oops: :shock: :oops:
Weren't you a good girls going to the docs and getting it sorted!!!
Bet yoyu're glad you did.
Hope the jab dOES work soon
Love
Toni x

lindalegs

Thanks Sue I, too, hope the injection will work.

Hi Toni, to be honest I didn't start weeing because I thought long and hard and decided not to take the water tablets :shock: Slap wrist, naughty me :x

I didn't even get them from the chemist because I looked them up on the net and they were really for people with high blood pressure, water retention, weak hearts and nowhere did it say that they were to reduce joint inflammation. I do think sometimes some GPs take a stab in the dark and they think if they write a prescription you'll leave them a happy bunny - not so in my case. He was a very young boy and he could have heard of something new but when I thought of having to be and down on the loo all day I decided I'd wait to see the Rheumy.

Luv Legs who was a bit of a rebel really :roll:

skezier

Hi Legs,

Personally i think your right to decide what's best for you. I also haven't taken some tablets that were prescribed........ They do just write a prescription and send you on your way, my lot don't even see you, they phone you and put up yet more 'junk' and some I take and some I don't!

I hope your tingling has responded to the injections and take care,

Luv

Cris xx

magenta

Hi Lindalegs,
I'm pleased for you. Hope the injections do work. I'm a teeny bit jealous though, I've the exact same problem and have done for over a year and it's getting worse. I'm on a 6 to 7mth waiting list just to be seen about getting a nerve conduction test done. I wish I had your rhuemy!
Hopefully you won't need surgery and I'm glad they're taking care of you
Magenta x

skezier

Hi Magenta,

I hope somehow you can get shunted up the list and get seen sooner. Its kinda unfair that everything is such a lottery. you take care Cris x ((()))

magenta

Hi Cris,
How are you? Hope you are well?
It's only after joining this forum I've realised how poor the services are here in Glasgow. Everything seems to be soooooo slow! I also think there's something in my notes saying MAD WOMAN!
Magenta x

skezier

Hi Magenta,

I kinda loosing the cope mechanism but its not able to escape the anchor chain....... I can feel it trying! :?

I thin you come under the same health trust as my mother did and I didn't think too much of it back then. I went to an ac course and hey told me to talk to Link about my 'lovely' doctors and not being able to move so maybe they could help you up there?

I am lucky I have a brilliant rumo but yep for different reasons my notes almost certainly have either mad or insane on them!

Hope you do get some kind of help before too long. take care, Cris x ((( )))

magenta

Hi again,
Sorry, bit daft-what's Link?
I'm sorry to hear you're not great. I don't get much time these days to have a proper look at the forum.
I've got alot of work on at the moment but also my wee boy has had a very bad case of the chicken pox
He's getting better now thankfully but this is the first real chance I've had at visiting the forum. I feel like I've not been able to 'keep up' with some people who very kindly sent me PM's-yourself included! Hope you're feeling better soon doll
Magenta xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

skezier

Hi Magenta,

I'm not terribly sure what they are, just they are located in Treliske so probably in all hospitals and they are very good with advice and are not like Pals cus they are independent. I'm going to wonder in there when I go to the Rumo and will let you know what they actually are! xxxxx (((())))

magenta

Thanks Cris,
Take care xxxxxxxx

joyful164

Hi everyone

Just been reading all your messages re this subject. As you probably know,I had injections 6 weeks ago today for CTS and Ulna problems. They didn't work.
My Rheumy told me to keep him posted on how I was getting on.
I have done this each week but not heard back. My next appointment with him his on the 10th Sept. Then, hopefully, he will arrange for this nerve conductive test which he mentioned. Reading all your messages re waiting times; I am very quickly losing all strength in both hands and arms now and just at the end of my patience. I still have a long way to go.

Does anyone know how much these tests cost to go privately?

joyful