I'm waiting for the full results and follow up doctor's appointment, but it's looking like I've got Carpal tunnel syndrome.
Moderate severe on the left and borderline moderate on the right, which is strange because it feels about equal in both hands to me, a constant numbness in the 4th and 5th digits.
I've also got what I think may be a trapped nerve in my neck causing pain in a line down my shoulder and up in to me head and numbness in my head.
Originally, my GP thought the two were related. However, the doctor carrying out the tests at the hospital didn't, she thought it was standard CTS causing the numbness in my hands.
I went back to my GP today (a different one) and got given a month's supply of Naproxen for the neck pain and as a temporary measure for the hand problem until the results are analysed.
Assuming this turns out to be two separate problems and one of them is CTS, what's the outcome likely to be from a mountain biking point of view?
Is surgery eventually inevitable ?
I've heard of people being given the choice of having both wrists done at once or one after the other, so they've either got the use of only one hand for six weeks or no hands at all for three.
Is that right ? Mrs MTQG says I can stay at her house and she'll look after me, but I'll have to go for the one hand at a time option as she's not wiping my bum for three weeks.
