8 months post op here in a few days and I’m wondering if anyone else’s scar is this big or this weird looking. I honestly feel like they butchered me. I was told it would be 4 inches long and it’s more than double that. I ended up having 40-50 staples as well.
I think I’m healing pretty well from my left elbow surgery that I had done the end of May. I have my right elbow scheduled in November, but with the surgery and the physical therapy I’m actually surprised of the recovery and how I’m feeling. I hope others are having some relief with their surgeries.
I had the surgery because my pinky finger was 80% numb and my index finger may be 40 or 50% numb and the side of my palm very numb. Also, the hand began getting very weak to the point where it was difficult to even use a fingernail clippers with it. Today they took the splint off that had been on since surgery and I was able to touch my palm and pinky and they are at least as numb as before the surgery if not a little bit more so possibly. Has anyone else experienced that and what was the outcome after several months? I’m worried that the surgery didn’t help. But I do realize it could just be continued healing and swelling from the surgery and it will take more time?….. I hope??
I’ve been having this tingly feeling in my pinky finger for about a week now with minor pains in my inner elbow that comes and goes. I’ve looked up the symptoms and signs point towards Cubital Tunnel, which is definitely freaking me out since I’m only 18. I haven’t gone to a doctor yet (out of fear), but I do have an appointment with my PCP coming up in about a week, am I better off waiting for the appointment to let my doctor know about the tingling or should I try to get seen sooner?
The only real pain I had was the day after, but so far smooth sailing. They have me doing physical therapy to get my strength back so I’m excited for that. Also this surgery seems to be healing better, I bruised a lot the first time!
Im almost 4 weeks post op ulnar nerve transposition and carpel tunnel surgery and im still SO sore, my fingers hurt so bad and I still have a significant amount of swelling still. Im hoping it all turns a corner soon. 😔
On certain days where my cubital tunnel issues are flaring up, I sometimes get pressure in my inner bicep. It basically feels like if you were to push your thumb into the area in yellow below.
Had surgery and my forearm, pinky, and ring finger are no longer numb or in the worst pain.
Had a post op appointment today and I shared with the PA that I started to have electric type pain in my whole hand and thumb to middle finger, since surgery.
Now I’m in a wrist splint. And see her back in a month. How common is this? 😔
I first had just this annoying tingling sensation in the base of my ring finger and then the pain started in my wrist and elbow.
Everyone in my family thinks I’m just doing it to get out of housework and when I say I plan to talk to the doctor, I’m basically just told “it’s not worth it for them to fix the issue.”
Thanks to the pain in my wrist, I’ve been avoiding my main hobby of gaming in hopes that it’ll make it easier for the nerve to heal.
In 2022 I tore my medial triceps while bench pressing. The medial tricep is completely gone now as well as the tendon that was there. I had pain in my elbow area for a couple years and thought it was because of the muscle tear. Eventually it got so bad that I thought I was going to lose my arm and I was experiencing muscle wasting in my hand so I went to the emergency room and was recommended to an orthopedic surgeon who told me it was my ulnar nerve. So we did an ulnar nerve decompression surgery. The surgery helped a little and the tingling to my hand decreased and muscle wasting in my hand stopped. However I still have incredible pain in my elbow area but there isn’t that much tingling to my ring and pinky finger only a little bit. The pain in my elbow is debilitating and I work with 1 hand and almost feel like I’m a 1 1/2 armed man because of my condition. I’m nervous if it’s still my ulnar nerve or the existing triceps that are still there but they too seem to be shrinking slowly and wasting away. I’m extremely scared because if this surgery doesn’t work I’m not really sure how I can live the rest of my life with this type of pain.
They get you in and out in a few hours!! Kept my hat on!!
Cast for two weeks. Don’t seem to need many painkillers. (declined opiates because they give me nausea.)
Strangest part: the nerve blocker. For several hours, my arm “disappeared.”
Advice welcome.
Hi, did anyone here had sth like this happen to the fingers due to the cubital tunnel syndrom ? I mean the thinnig on the base of three last fingers
Just curious here. It seems like a lot of cubital tunnel instances are caused by work here, or at least I see people mention that they are on the computer for 8 hours a day at work, they do repetitive movements at work, etc. Are people going through their normal insurance because they didnt realize it was from work? I think mine is caused by a mix of things but is pretty aggravated at work (manual labor). I did recently find out that my mom had cubital tunnel from work and had to stop working because she didnt want to do the surgery. (Thats not really an option for me, to stop working.)
Im mostly curious because I've had a hard time getting my doctor to take me seriously. He literally told me yesterday that my new symptoms in my right arm arent from overuse because ive been using my right arm solely for 5 months while my left healed. He told me that the compression feeling and my arm going numb at work was "normal" and part of getting used to going back to work again (even though i had been working the entire time.)
I tried switching doctors but they are very limited for who is a specialist and will see me under work comp. There is a cubital tunnel specialist I wanted to see but they only accept my private insurance. So, is everyone just using their private insurance even if work is a big factor in your pain?
...I'm deadlifting above my bodyweight! Climbing, swimming, helping friends move... no more nerve flosses, no more arm brace at night, no more worrying about ergonomics. There's a lot I wish I'd known about recovery.
-My surgeon was basically a salesman. He was like 'you'll wake up and your arm will feel better.' Not really. Maybe because of how long I was injured it's taken a lot of physical therapy (and then my PT transitioned me to light weightlifting, and then normal weightlifting). I wasn't into weightlifting before the surgery. But the atrophy from 10 years of injury required a lot of muscle rebuilding (the less muscle you have the more things get irritated)
-My surgeon did NOT have me immobilized after the surgery. He had me moving my arm pretty much immediately. I still waited a week to drive, even though he didn't specify that. But I'm wondering if lack of immobilization was a key part of not having this whole scarring thing
-I had bilateral symptoms, with an initial injury to the left. After my left ulnar nerve release, surgeon gave me the green light to get the surgery on the right. I'm SO glad I didn't. Despite my primary then diagnosing my right arm with tendonitis, my PT was like 'um your right forearm is just chronically tight' and had me buy a forearm massager (roflex). Cleared up my right arm symptoms over time.
-Recovery also took a lot of self work because I became afraid of a lot of activities and have had to force myself to do them. Part of that was realizing that those minor symptoms sometimes just meant I wasn't used to an activity anymore. I still sometimes forget that it's OK to clap after performances for instance, or to read on my stomach
-Sometimes I still have mild symptoms but I barely notice them because I know they don't *mean* anything. But OK maybe I'm less likely to sleep on my left side still ;)
-I expect to continue recovering even from here. My next step is getting used to the punching motion so that maybe I can get into martial arts for instance. Also, feeling more comfortable with falling so that I can get into things like roller blading
Wishing everyone best of luck out there, happy to answer any questions
Others who have had the surgery, how does my incision compare? I'm a week post op. I feel like the way it's sutured is....weird. Won't the sticking out part remain that way when it heal?
Update: went to PT today and they said it is normal and will flatten out after they take out the stitches.
Months after the surgery, I started feeling a burning sensation in my little finger and hand again, in addition to the burning sensation in my elbow. I did a test: I bent my elbow and put my hand through it to feel if anything was passing through the epicondylitis, and I did feel something passing through when I bent it. Could the surgery have failed?
Fair warning, the pictures are of my elbow, open, during my transposition.
Thought id share!
Started playing pickleball in May with zero racket ball background. And 2+ wks back I think i developed trigger finger in my dominant hand's pinky. Maybe mid June I felt something was wrong but didn't realized what it was, I normal cracked my knuckles but in June I did noticed when I tried to cracked my Pinky knuckle it would ache but didn't think much of it, thought I might have knocked my hand.
Then about 2 weeks back, I realized it was trigger finger cause one morning when I open my hand, the pinky was like stuck mid way then after a while it popped back straight.
I've rested about 2wks with zero play as I'm on holiday. Finger is much better, opens and closes smooth without locking, but on the inside I can feel like a notch moving when I open and close, which is not there on my other hand.
Wondering what I should do as I would like to start playing in a week's time when I'm back. I don't think I'm over gripping and have a quite loose grip like 3/10 most of the time, that I've drop my paddle mid game more than once.