Carpet Tunnel Surgery - How long can I expect to be out of commission?

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Sometime within the next three months, I’m planning to get carpal tunnel surgery on both hands, as the pain I’ve experienced at night has just become unbearable. I’m getting both hands done at once, to get it over with.

Anyone have experience with getting the surgery, and how long I might expect to be unable to play pool? Also, will the adjustment back to playing again be tougher for my bridge hand or for my gripping hand?

Any feedback from anyone who has experienced getting this surgery and then getting back to playing pool would be helpful, as long as it’s not a bad experience!
 
ChrisinNC said:
Sometime within the next three months, I’m planning to get carpal tunnel surgery on both hands, as the pain I’ve experienced at night has just become unbearable. I’m getting both hands done at once, to get it over with.

Anyone have experience with getting the surgery, and how long I can expect to be out of the pool playing action? Also, will the adjustment back to playing again be tougher for my bridge hand or my gripping hand? I assume for the bridge hand.

Any feedback from anyone who has experienced getting this surgery and then getting back to playing pool would be helpful, as long as it’s not a bad experience!
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I had the surgery 15 years ago. They opened the sheath at my wrist. It totally fixed my wrist. I would recommend doing all the physical therapy. Inflammation is always a concern.

Total time to heal for me was a couple months.

Good luck and get well soon.
 
Listen to your doctor. He’ll let you know when to go ahead and play. Good luck with surgery
 
I had it done and the Doc said I could work as soon as the cut was healed enough. Took about a week. I’m a Carpenter so I’m pretty hard on my hands…
 
ChrisinNC said:
Sometime within the next three months, I’m planning to get carpal tunnel surgery on both hands, as the pain I’ve experienced at night has just become unbearable. I’m getting both hands done at once, to get it over with.

Anyone have experience with getting the surgery, and how long I might expect to be unable to play pool? Also, will the adjustment back to playing again be tougher for my bridge hand or for my gripping hand?

Any feedback from anyone who has experienced getting this surgery and then getting back to playing pool would be helpful, as long as it’s not a bad experience!
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Im sorry for not having helpful advice but I am curious, are you going to need a plan to take care of the clean up after your morning constitutional??? Sorry for the strange question, just the way I am. I always tell my Doc when he gives me any medication that if one of the possible side effects is anal seepage that its a hard pass, he needs to find something else.
Before I had my shoulder surgery (rotator cuff) I joked with my wife she was going to have to wipe my butt for me. :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
Just thinking about cleaning off handed is bad enough, but having limited use of both hands, YIKES!!!! I wish you luck!!!
 
fastone371 said:
Im sorry for not having helpful advice but I am curious, are you going to need a plan to take care of the clean up after your morning constitutional??? Sorry for the strange question, just the way I am. I always tell my Doc when he gives me any medication that if one of the possible side effects is anal seepage that its a hard pass, he needs to find something else.
Before I had my shoulder surgery (rotator cuff) I joked with my wife she was going to have to wipe my butt for me. :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
Just thinking about cleaning off handed is bad enough, but having limited use of both hands, YIKES!!!! I wish you luck!!!
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My first thought...bidet.
 
fastone371 said:
Im sorry for not having helpful advice but I am curious, are you going to need a plan to take care of the clean up after your morning constitutional??? Sorry for the strange question, just the way I am. I always tell my Doc when he gives me any medication that if one of the possible side effects is anal seepage that its a hard pass, he needs to find something else.
Before I had my shoulder surgery (rotator cuff) I joked with my wife she was going to have to wipe my butt for me. :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
Just thinking about cleaning off handed is bad enough, but having limited use of both hands, YIKES!!!! I wish you luck!!!
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Actually, my brother had carpal tunnel surgery done on BOTH hands at the same time.

His wife had to zip down his fly and help him pee AND had to wipe his ass.

Maniac
 
ChrisinNC said:
Sometime within the next three months, I’m planning to get carpal tunnel surgery on both hands, as the pain I’ve experienced at night has just become unbearable.
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Numbness also? I assume you’ve exhausted all the exercise/night-splint/analgesic options? Remember what they say about surgeons: (too a man with a hammer,….everything is a nail). Be sure you ask his success rate.
 
Maniac said:
Actually, my brother had carpal tunnel surgery done on BOTH hands at the same time.

His wife had to zip down his fly and help him pee AND had to wipe his ass.

Maniac
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This is what I was gonna tell him, I asked my doctor to do mine at the same time and he say's
"You better have someone that loves you a lot and will wipe your ass because you will not be able to".
 
I've had both hands done...one at a time though. I wouldn't recommend doing both at once. Mine was very successful, totally fixed my hand pain which was at times debilitating. As soon as the incisions were healed I was back at work. I don't think it was more than three weeks. As I recall I had to avoid heavy lifting for another few weeks. I highly recommend it, I never should have waited, all the years of splints, etc. was a real pain. A very simple surgery.
 
ehb86 said:
I've had both hands done...one at a time though. I wouldn't recommend doing both at once. Mine was very successful, totally fixed my hand pain which was at times debilitating. As soon as the incisions were healed I was back at work. I don't think it was more than three weeks. As I recall I had to avoid heavy lifting for another few weeks. I highly recommend it, I never should have waited, all the years of splints, etc. was a real pain. A very simple surgery.
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That is encouraging – thanks.
 
ChrisinNC said:
That is encouraging – thanks.
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ehb86 said:
I've had both hands done...one at a time though. I wouldn't recommend doing both at once. Mine was very successful, totally fixed my hand pain which was at times debilitating. As soon as the incisions were healed I was back at work. I don't think it was more than three weeks. As I recall I had to avoid heavy lifting for another few weeks. I highly recommend it, I never should have waited, all the years of splints, etc. was a real pain. A very simple surgery.
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My experience was identical to yours, EHB86. It's one of the most successful, trouble-free of all surgeries and is instantly curative. Back to work very quickly.
I would caution anyone: Don't even think about doing both hands at once!!! Plenty of self-tortuous logistical problems (and truly gross impositions on helpers) are needlessly invoked by doing that, and there's not a single justifiable reason for doing so. Word to the wise.

Arnaldo
 
ChrisinNC said:
Sometime within the next three months, I’m planning to get carpal tunnel surgery on both hands, as the pain I’ve experienced at night has just become unbearable. I’m getting both hands done at once, to get it over with.

Anyone have experience with getting the surgery, and how long I might expect to be unable to play pool? Also, will the adjustment back to playing again be tougher for my bridge hand or for my gripping hand?

Any feedback from anyone who has experienced getting this surgery and then getting back to playing pool would be helpful, as long as it’s not a bad experience!
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Chris, talk to another doctor, it is a horrible idea to get both done at once.

I've had both done and Tommy John on both arms.
A few things were crucial to recovery on CTS. Rehab, the finger exercises where you touch the thumb to each finger and doing it repeatedly.
They will measure your success.
Also, hand strength is really important and you will have putty like balls to grasp.
If you don't drive a stick shift, use them whenever you can.

Another thing that helped is this machine they put your arm in with corn in it. It spins around really quickly and massages the scar area.

After you are healed the only thing I found which hurts is pressing directly on that area, and for some reason bad changes in temperatures.
 
u12armresl said:
Chris, talk to another doctor, it is a horrible idea to get both done at once.

I've had both done and Tommy John on both arms.
A few things were crucial to recovery on CTS. Rehab, the finger exercises where you touch the thumb to each finger and doing it repeatedly.
They will measure your success.
Also, hand strength is really important and you will have putty like balls to grasp.
If you don't drive a stick shift, use them whenever you can.

Another thing that helped is this machine they put your arm in with corn in it. It spins around really quickly and massages the scar area.

After you are healed the only thing I found which hurts is pressing directly on that area, and for some reason bad changes in temperatures.
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Yes, I’m certainly leaning now towards not getting them both done at once, based on some of the responses I’ve received here. I will certainly discuss this with my orthopedic doctor / surgeon who would be performing this procedure - thanks
 
ChrisinNC said:
Yes, I’m certainly leaning now towards not getting them both done at once, based on some of the responses I’ve received here. I will certainly discuss this with my orthopedic doctor / surgeon who would be performing this procedure - thanks
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See??? Lucky for you I brought this stuff up. :):LOL::LOL::LOL:
Thats also why you will never see me on a med with the side effect of anal seepage, because inquiring minds want to know. 😎
 
ChrisinNC said:

Carpet Tunnel Surgery - How long can I expect to be out of commission?​

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I had Carpet Tunnel Surgery once. I had a leaking pipe in the slab so they rolled up the carpet in the den, tunneled over to the cracked pipe and fixed it. Expect to be out of commission for a few days at least depending on how bad the issue is. It is loud and dusty work too. Avoid it if you can!
 
ChrisinNC, Howdy;

All 10 fingers were tinglin' so I ended up getting both Carpel tunnels as well as both
Ulnar Nerve relocations done, but ... 8 weeks apart. First the Right side, then the Left.
Practiced doing "things" with the off-hand for the few weeks before hand and it all
worked out well in the long run. Both arms had a cast on them for 6 weeks afterwards
wasn't given any PT so figured that out as I went along.
My advise is get them done separately, makes life much easier and may help prevent
relationship problems. Best wishes for success X 2.

hank
 
fastone371 said:
See??? Lucky for you I brought this stuff up. :):LOL::LOL::LOL:
Thats also why you will never see me on a med with the side effect of anal seepage, because inquiring minds want to know. 😎
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I'm sure he and the hospital will appreciate that as now the Hospital can charge for 2 complete uses. :ROFLMAO:

hank
 
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