What happened to my wrist?

[HPLovecraft]

Okay, so, the other day I fell backwards and caught myself with my left hand. There was a lot of pain in my thumb and it ended up swelling up a bit. The swelling went down two days later, but the pain if I used my thumb too much or pressed around it was still there.

Then, yesterday, I was putting a lot of my weight on my two wrists and all of a sudden a sharp pain went up the underside of my wrist. All of the sudden, the top of my thumb, down around the base of my thumb, and then down the center of my wrist along the tendon bruised. Like, it bruised immediately when the pain happened. It looks like someone whacked me on the underside of my left wrist, on the left side of it, along with bruising long the top of my thumb.

It doesn't hurt a whole lot, but if I strain or use the thumb or move my wrist around it does. Sometimes a dull weird pain will 'ache' inside my wrist.

I'm thinking I must have just made the original 'sprain' of my thumb or whatever worse, and now it's a real sprain? Would I be right about that, anyone know? Why the heck would it bruise just all of a sudden like that, I never had that happen to me before.

Do I need to perform an emergency amputation? I have it in a wrist brace right now... Haven't gone to a doctor, they are closed near here. Was I attacked by a ghost? What up?

[flip]

Have you been uhhhh having too much personal fun recently?

[HPLovecraft]

Originally Posted by flip

Have you been uhhhh having too much personal fun recently?

Lol, no, I was trying to hold my weight up using my arms and wrists.

[jammies]

Originally Posted by HPLovecraft

Lol, no, I was trying to hold my weight up using my arms and wrists.

Let her be on top.

[GreenTeaFrapp]

I don't know what it is but I will dub it Slacker's Wrist!

[HPLovecraft]

Originally Posted by GreenTeaFrapp

I don't know what it is but I will dub it Slacker's Wrist!

Is it fatal?

[GreenTeaFrapp]

Originally Posted by HPLovecraft

Is it fatal?

I guess we'll have to wait and see, won't we?

[redforever]

I suspect you sprained your thumb. I used to play second base and sometimes if I made a catch that had some oomph to it, my thumb would go back in my glove and it would behave and feel the same way you are describing.

Never took long for my thumb to be back to normal, 7 to 10 days.

But I think you have wrist pain because you are trying to do weights while you have an injury. I would quit the weights until that improves.

[boobaloo]

You should go to the doctor. Could be a fracture. The reason for the bruise might be from a jagged piece of bone breaking the wall of a vein. There's often not much they can do for it, but if it's broken, they might splint it. If it's a bad break, they may have to pin it. You really should have it x-rayed, though.

[iggnuef]

You should just relax and do nothing!! Don't overwork yourself. Just eat cheesies and watch TV and play video games.....

[HPLovecraft]

Originally Posted by boobaloo

You should go to the doctor. Could be a fracture. The reason for the bruise might be from a jagged piece of bone breaking the wall of a vein. There's often not much they can do for it, but if it's broken, they might splint it. If it's a bad break, they may have to pin it. You really should have it x-rayed, though.

I don't know why it could be broken, I didn't do anything to break it. I have a feeling it's some form of tendinitis, since I stretched my thumb back and it didn't really heal. I might visit the doc tomorrow, though, just to make sure...

[HPLovecraft]

Originally Posted by iggnuef

You should just relax and do nothing!! Don't overwork yourself. Just eat cheesies and watch TV and play video games.....

I wish I could play video games. Don't want to use my thumb or wrist, though, it feels weird.

[boobaloo]

Originally Posted by HPLovecraft

I don't know why it could be broken, I didn't do anything to break it. I have a feeling it's some form of tendinitis, since I stretched my thumb back and it didn't really heal. I might visit the doc tomorrow, though, just to make sure...

You said you fell backwards and caught yourself with your left hand. It could have caused enough stress to break something. Tendonitis doesn't usually bruise.

[Rhettzky]

Pretty sure it could be gonorrhea or a type of herpes. Better go get a Q-tip test.

[Daradon]

1 vote for cutting it off. You shouldn't have to deal with pain like that. Teach it a lesson!

[Ice]

Originally Posted by redforever

I suspect you sprained your thumb. I used to play second base and sometimes if I made a catch that had some oomph to it, my thumb would go back in my glove and it would behave and feel the same way you are describing.

Never took long for my thumb to be back to normal, 7 to 10 days.

But I think you have wrist pain because you are trying to do weights while you have an injury. I would quit the weights until that improves.

I agree with this. Sounds like you may have sprained your thumb. It used to happen to me a lot when I was in gymnastics. It never took longer than two weeks to completely go away. It still happens to me once in a while (maybe its easier to sprain having done it so many times) but it doesn't take much, lifting something too heavy, or catching myself fall, to have it happen again. It just happened last week and I have no idea what I did, but it was exactly the pain you describe. In two days it was completely gone. I wouldn't be too worried unless the pain doesn't go away.

[HPLovecraft]

Originally Posted by Ice

I agree with this. Sounds like you may have sprained your thumb. It used to happen to me a lot when I was in gymnastics. It never took longer than two weeks to completely go away. It still happens to me once in a while (maybe its easier to sprain having done it so many times) but it doesn't take much, lifting something too heavy, or catching myself fall, to have it happen again. It just happened last week and I have no idea what I did, but it was exactly the pain you describe. In two days it was completely gone. I wouldn't be too worried unless the pain doesn't go away.

Do you get sudden and immediate bruising in your wrist AND thumb? And when it bruised, I felt shooting pain up my wrist, along the underside of my arm...

I am almost positive it has something to do with my thumb, too, though.

[Ice]

I haven't actually seen bruising, but that's what it feels like. I have felt a shooting pain up from my wrist to my elbow when I've injured it due to a pounding type injury. This last time it happened, I have no idea what I did to cause it. I woke up in the morning with the familiar pain but couldn't think of anything that could've caused it. Advil didn't help, ice helped a little bit and then two days later I woke up with zero pain. The weird thing is when this happens to me, I have one level of pain and then no pain. I never go through a time where I just feel like its getting better. Its all or nothing. It gets worse when I try applying pressure to my thumb or wrist trying to figure out which area is causing the pain. But once I stop bothering it, its that same dull, bruise like pain.

Doesn't someone have a connection to medical help at a local Mac's?

[Boblobla]

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