[stuartr]

I had a bought of wrist pain it think came from casting I know how it is. I couldn't even cast my 8wt I had to lay it down for a while last summer. Mine has left for now. They say CTS is some nasty stuff. I hope it goes well for you. Have you thought of this, I was pondering and still am a switch style rod for the heavy stuff to take alot of the pain out of casting.

STU

[flyfishn]

I had surgery on both wrist and it was the best thing I have ever had done at the time. Now they do optictoscopic surgey and it much easier and less invasive. The trird injections, splint but the surgery did the trick.

Good Luck !

Flyfishn

[phg]

Sorry, I didn't look at this sooner. Lots of stories here, aren't there?

I got CTS in Grad school, in both wrists, from typing up all those papers. It got so bad I could barely use my hands. Once I painfully finished the semester, I took a long vacation from the keyboard, and kept both wrists wrapped in wrist braces for a couple of months.

The CTS went away, but I am much more cautious about keeping my wrists supported. In fact, right now, my wrists are firmly planted on the desktop while I type with just my finger tips. Those gel wrist pads help a lot too.

If fly tying is what is aggravating your wrists, quit fly tying for while. At your age, the condition should heal in a few weeks, once you quit doing whatever it is that's hurting you. After the pain is gone, you can work on conditioning, and rebuild the strength of your wrists so you can resume tying.

If you've actually damaged your wrists, then surgery may be the only answer, but it's far more likely that you just have inflammation of the tendons or tunnels, or both.

[wilhelm]

Caleb,

Take Streamer's advice an go get a doctor's diagnosis. You have nothing to loose by doing so.

My understanding of CTS is that it just doesn't go away without corrective action of some type. Maybe it is only a wrist support such as what you have, maybe it isn't. But without a doctor looking at you, you don't know what you have. Heck, you might just have some sort of wrist fatigue or strain.

However well meaninig and knowledgeable we are, we can't tell you anything from our offices, dens or dinning room tables. Go have a professional look at it and have the piece of mind of knowing what it is for certain.

If is CTS, fix it now so you aren't compounding the damage.

wilhelm

[WestTNbum]

Caleb,
I have CTS in both hands. My right hand was so bad that I would drop what ever I was holding at the time. When my daughter was born I had my Doc do the surgery. My right hand is now fine, the left does not bug me much so I did not have it done. I am now 9 years out from surgery and have no complications from it, my casting still stinks. If you are hurting now if you do nothing for it it will get worse. My mother in-law had her's done last year and had the arthroscopic surgery, she had a faster recovery than I did, mine was the old fashion slit in the middle if the wrist. Go to a Doc and get it checked out, the ENG will be as bad as it will get.
Danny

[launchone]

Caleb, Dr. Kohman at Wake is an internationally reknowned orthopedic surgeon and specializes in peripheral nerves. He worked wonders on my leg.... If you like I will do some looking into the literature and get back to you via PM