STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

Tati · Chanel

annoying painful issue with my thumb!

Boots · Gucci

My first instinct is to see a doctor, but if I remember correctly, you are in between insurance right now (maybe I'm mixing you up with someone else?) Could you get a brace for it for a week or so and see if it clears up? It could very well be a slight sprain that just needs time to heal.

Tati · Chanel

Boots-

I have no insurance for myself. sucks!

Kelly · Hermes

Hmmm. Do you have a computer-type job where you type a lot? Could it maybe be something related to that?

My first thought was to go to the doctor too, but not having insurance obviously makes that less doable.

Tati · Chanel

Kelly- No I don't. Maybe the most I do is text? but I hardly text in my opinion.

yea....going to the doctor without insurance would be a lot of $ out of my pocket.

NCshopper · Hermes

Maybe take some ibuprofen and put some ice on it for 30 min. here and there throughout the day? If it's inflamed at all, that'll help. Seems weird.

Suasoria · Chanel

I would go with the brace suggestion to see if immobilizing it makes a difference. However, my mom started getting arthritis symptoms in her 20s - it runs in our family too - so don't rule it out. Do some research and see what kind of alternative/natural remedies there might be. I'm thinking MSM, maybe niacin (vitamin B3)?

Tati · Chanel

Thanks Suasoria! I will do my homework when I get a chance. I guess I'm actually not that young, I feel much younger though..... till I start having thumb issues! lol
I just can start to freak myself out

Boots · Gucci

Take a trip to your local drug store or Target and get a brace. This will at least give you a chance to rest the thumb. I get tendinitis in my wrist when I lift weights incorrectly and it takes a week or two of wearing a wrist brace to get it back to normal. My SIL has carpal in both her wrists and she ices them down when it gets too bad.

I've hurt of people getting tendinitis in the thumbs from texting, but maybe you also just pulled it and didn't really notice (heck, maybe your sleeping on it "wrong" or something?) Try treating the simpler possibility first before you begin to worry about possibly having arthritis.

Hope you feel better soon!

kmd · Kate Spade

Maybe you broke your thumb. If you hit any finger a just hard enough, it can break. I broke my pinky last summer when I slammed it against a corner of a dashboard. I used a brace for a about a week and avoided using it as much as possible.