Advice please for a computer mouse

DennyB

My rheumatoid arthritis in my right hand is getting worse and my index finger and thumb are suffering the most. My index finger knuckle is now quite swollen due to damaged cartilage and my consultant has suggested I use an ergonomic mouse which is suitable for arthritis sufferers. I've looked on Google but there are so many and it's difficult to know which would be best for me. If anyone in the forum has found a computer mouse which works well with swollen joints on the index finger I would really appreciate you sharing with me.
Many thanks in advance.

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Hello and welcome DennyB to Versus Arthritis Community Forum.

I find your post very interesting as I personally can relate to it, as I'm sure many of our forum users will also. Technology and adaptations bring all sorts of help for us all, it's the small technicalities as a mouse that can hinder us. Our forum users are well informed and may be able to point you in the right direction.

I have found this link which may be of help to you.

https://www.arthritisresearchuk.org/system/search-results.aspx?keywords=Computer+adaptations

Please feel free to contact Versus Arthritis Helplines for further help, the contact number is at the head of the page.

Enjoy the forum.

John

stickywicket

Ho Denny. Others will come up with better solutions I'm sure but I use an ordinary mouse and, when stuff's bad, either move it about with two fingers and click with a different one or just use my left hand. Neither solution is good but they can get me through bad patches.

dreamdaisy

I've gone mouse-less as it were by having a touchpad; that brings its own frustrations. I also use my left hand, luckily my self-employment required me to become left -handed at times and I have improved at using it through practice.

Although many things can be bought from the net some items are impossible to judge from others 'reviews', we have to get out there and try which, thanks to the net, is getting harder and harder to do. As a friend once described it, it's a viscous circle. DD

trepolpen

I use a small mouse , with large hands that after 25 years of RA doing its best & a couple of fingers that dont work because of traped nerves is not easy

cheap logitech works for me , just make sure it's comfortable for you what ever you do

LesleyJ1509

I have arthritis in all of my fingers and fine the trackpad works best for me as I am no longer able to grip.



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DennyB

stickywicket wrote:

Ho Denny. Others will come up with better solutions I'm sure but I use an ordinary mouse and, when stuff's bad, either move it about with two fingers and click with a different one or just use my left hand. Neither solution is good but they can get me through bad patches.

DennyB

dreamdaisy wrote:

I've gone mouse-less as it were by having a touchpad; that brings its own frustrations. I also use my left hand, luckily my self-employment required me to become left -handed at times and I have improved at using it through practice.

Although many things can be bought from the net some items are impossible to judge from others 'reviews', we have to get out there and try which, thanks to the net, is getting harder and harder to do. As a friend once described it, it's a viscous circle. DD

DennyB

trepolpen wrote:

I use a small mouse , with large hands that after 25 years of RA doing its best & a couple of fingers that dont work because of traped nerves is not easy

cheap logitech works for me , just make sure it's comfortable for you what ever you do

DennyB

LesleyJ1509 wrote:

I have arthritis in all of my fingers and fine the trackpad works best for me as I am no longer able to grip.



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DennyB

moderator wrote:

Hello and welcome DennyB to Versus Arthritis Community Forum.

I find your post very interesting as I personally can relate to it, as I'm sure many of our forum users will also. Technology and adaptations bring all sorts of help for us all, it's the small technicalities as a mouse that can hinder us. Our forum users are well informed and may be able to point you in the right direction.

I have found this link which may be of help to you.

https://www.arthritisresearchuk.org/system/search-results.aspx?keywords=Computer+adaptations

Please feel free to contact Versus Arthritis Helplines for further help, the contact number is at the head of the page.

Enjoy the forum.

John

dreamdaisy

Hello again, I appreciate the mouse trouble but if you wish to reply to a thread it's probably best to click on the red 'reply to topic' button under the box, which brings up a clean screen, type your answer then click submit, rather than click on the reply with quote in the box and then not add anything. DD