stupid wrist (boring minor medical peeve)

[rmd]

so, yesterday, i woke up with a very sore wrist. i assumed i'd slept with it bent weirdly or something. and so i generally tried to take it easy and not taunt the wrist.

well, apparently, i wasn't nice enough to it. i woke up this morning with my wrist so sore i don't think i can safely operate my car (my right wrist is the injured one and i drive a standard transmission stick shift car)

600mg of vitamin I hasn't made much of a dent in it. i'm icing it periodically, and i've moved my trackball to the lefthand side of my keyboard (and boy howdy that's a bit weird to operate)

i tried wrapping it but i'm not sure it actually helped. i'll try it again after the next icing. i may hop a cab over to mt auburn's walk in clinic later today, too, if it seems like the usual treatments aren't helping.

Comments

[lil-brown-bat.livejournal.com]

A walk-in clinic won't do anything that you haven't already done. What you're doing is the right stuff, it just takes time and patience and avoiding whatever was aggravating it. Wrapping in an elastic bandage like an Ace bandage doesn't do much good. Taping works much better.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

yeah, if it stays like this, i'm not worried. i'm mostly concerned about if it gets worse.

taping rather than wrapping seems a good idea. i think i've got tape around somewhere. i may try that and see if it helps.