RECOVERY STORY
Posting this because I remember coming on this sub when I first was injured four years ago and only saw stories of DOOM that made everything worse. Healed people don’t post so I’m doing my bit haha. I had bilateral neuropathy, elbow and wrist tendinitis all visible on nerve conduction and MRI. Thought my career was over. I was terrified. Read scary things on the internet. Medical leave and graded return to work for over six months, then for a year was using Dragon software. I am hypermobile which caused the underlying vulnerability. Did strength training. The pain subsided but came back in a big way a year after my first injury when I was in a stressful environment. Another lot of scans showed the injury had healed but the pain was there due to the brain’s threat detection mechanisms. A huge cliche but I read Alan Gordon’s The Way Out and did the whole somatic tracking thing, and I was out of pain very quickly. This doesn’t work for all chronic pain and I think he over states the effectiveness of it but the point remains that the body can heal, you can heal from RSI, I have friends who have healed from it, it is not a life sentence. I have been pain free now for three years and using a computer as normal. I keep up the exercise and stress reduction and am not in a toxic team anymore. DO NOT DOOM SCROLL ON THIS SUB REDDIT. RESPECT THE STRONG LINK BETWEEN YOUR STRESS AND ANXIETY LEVELS AND THE SEVERITY OF YOUR SYMPTOMS. YOU CAN GET BETTER. As a side note I have some mild tinnitus how and am totally avoiding Reddit and totally tuning in to the stories of people who habituate it at live beside it. You won’t find anything helpful here.