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The past two weeks I have been getting injections to relieve my carpal tunnel syndrome, which I have in both arms. My doctor does the injections under ultrasound to be sure that the medicine is given in the right place. He told me today that he found that I have unusual anatomy in my wrists/forearms. Apparently I have hypertrophy (overenlargement) of the muscles that surround the carpal tunnel space.
He was a bit flummoxed as to why I had this, and believe me, I'm no body builder! I told him that because of my Ptsd, I am constantly making fists and gripping objects much too tightly. He said that would certainly do it. He was so surprised by this that he brought residents in to see it.
I guess this is a first, as far as he's concerned. I consider it a pretty sad thing, because it's physical proof of how screwed up I still am because most of the time I'm not aware I'm doing it. Of course I was advised to try to stop doing this. Yeah, it's just that easy to break a habit of decades. But I guess I need to try, or I may screw up the results of the surgery I'm supposed to have next year.
He was a bit flummoxed as to why I had this, and believe me, I'm no body builder! I told him that because of my Ptsd, I am constantly making fists and gripping objects much too tightly. He said that would certainly do it. He was so surprised by this that he brought residents in to see it.
I guess this is a first, as far as he's concerned. I consider it a pretty sad thing, because it's physical proof of how screwed up I still am because most of the time I'm not aware I'm doing it. Of course I was advised to try to stop doing this. Yeah, it's just that easy to break a habit of decades. But I guess I need to try, or I may screw up the results of the surgery I'm supposed to have next year.