[edit] Repetetive Stress/Strain Injury aka OW-ME-CARPALS
Diagnosed when Doctors don't know wtf is really wrong with your wrists/hands/fingers/forearm/shoulder. Sometimes you might get told you have carpal tunnel syndrome or some other serious business, where the only solution is invasive surgery right now! Tell the Dr to back the fuck up and give you phisio!
[edit] List of sufferers
- Ultima Why am I the only one on this list :'<
- wodeh May be due to excessive masturbation
- Tori I probably wank too much (the doctor thinks this is because I play guitar, poor innocent fool), i have carpal tunnel compression, but the shit NHs has'nt got round to fixing it, in five years. But then, who cares, It's only lil' ol me IN AGONISING PAIN.
[edit] Treatment's offered so far
- Ibuprofen -- OH LAWL G-THNX
- Diclofenac -- Hey works along with pain management!
- Co-codamol -- These are the beefy kind you can't get without a prescription! Make you feel sick and high :< (8mg ones can be bought over the counter without prescription.)
- Cortisone steroid injection -- Never, ever, ever, ever say yes to these, they utterly fucked up my hand! ~Ultima
- Amitriptyline hydrochloride -- WTF? an antidepressant drug for RSI??? The doc's think this helps to "stabilise nerve endings" moar like makes you manic and g
reay! Cool side effect is utterly messed up vivid dreams/nightmares! ... erk, I was prescirbed this, I felt like I was pilling all the time! (please bear I'm mind that I only know what pilling feels like because someone told me, and they were bad and ungodly and will go to hell) Tori