CosmicArkie
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Any of you other graybeards enjoy the pleasure of trigger finger (fretting hand)?
Anyone had hand surgery on the fretting hand?
Thx.
Anyone had hand surgery on the fretting hand?
Thx.
Jim:Any of you other graybeards enjoy the pleasure of trigger finger (fretting hand)?
Anyone had hand surgery on the fretting hand?
Thx.
Not that I've got the problem but thank you for the PSA. Might just be in time to do somebody some good.Wanted to update this thread with my results: Had one more finger injected this week, and that should be it. Did not totally resolve symptoms, but fingers work MUCH better than before, and once "warmed up" are fine. If you have trigger finger, and it's getting worse, and are considering the injected corticosteroid course of treatment, don't wait: Once the symptoms are sufficiently severe enough, your only option will be surgery.
I have trigger finger on my right index finger and occasionally on my right middle finger. It only seems to affect me overnight and is pretty much gone during the day. My doctor has suggested surgery, but since it doesn't hurt at all and doesn't have any real impact on my life, I have negated that option (for now).
Good thoughts on the progression of symptoms, gj. I may have to see where this is going.
Had that issue with my right thumb - made it difficult to hold a pick. Two corticosteroid injections about 5 weeks apart - the second was much more effective than the first. Used a topical NSAID for a couple of weeks (dicloflenac sodium topical gel - 1%) at night with cotton gloves to keep me from smearing it around and I am much improved. I too am trying to avoid surgery.
Wondering if you have an update. I'm in the same boat as you were a couple of years ago; been playing for more than 50 of my 67 years, now having serious trigger finger in my fretting middle finger, getting a consult and likely an injection next week. Like you, I'm not too fond of surgery, but I don't want to give up guitar.
I developed a mid finger trigger finger on my left hand about four years ago. Had one injection about 4 to 5 weeks after it happened and it went away. March of 2018, I'm coming home in my car and some knucklehead hits me in the rear end which of course made me grip the steering wheel like I was going to rip it out. So that finger started acting up again about 3 weeks after that incident which I won't call an accident cuz it should have never happened. It got so bad that I would drift off to sleep and wake up and it would be pointing down and hurting so bad. I had it operated on and now after 2 years I can use it to play some. I believe I went two years without picking up a guitar because of the damn finger in hand.about 2 months after I had that first surgery I started waking up in my midfinger on the right hand started triggering. also my left thumb and my left index finger next to the surgical site started triggering and acting up and I'm like I can't take this crap any longer. Injections barely help and are not helping the one on the right hand at all. Nothing is helping the one that was operated on as the tendon wants to try to pull the finger down with the scar tissue . So this is what I decided, I'm not going to have the right hand operated on at all! I can hold a pic with it. At night I've been wrapping it with coban, that material that sticks to itself. So I bought a bunch from Amazon and tell the doctor two or three weeks ago that I'll be wrapping this finger tell they cremate I'm not going to go through another 2 years of hell trying to even makeI'm not going to go through another 2 years of hell trying to even make a fist, so coban is your friend at night if you wrap it right you can still have flexibility in that trigger finger but you can't override the joint unless you try really hard so your finger doesn't get totally whacked out in the middle of the night. That's about all I got right now. I used my hands for decades training in Karate and still squeeze my hands as tight as I can, and that trigger finger surgery has kept the finger from tucking in real good. Really pisses me off. I believe I still have some punches in me.Not that I've got the problem but thank you for the PSA. Might just be in time to do somebody some good.
I used exercises and stretches from carpaltunelinstitude.org. I bought their DVD. They had a money back guarantee so it was worth the try. Also used Diclofenac Sodium topical gel.
try bending fingers keeping the first joint straight. This worked for me in my 70's.