Contacting Dr J Bland / Progress

I underwent surgery on my left hand on 22 October. Recovery going well and although there is some numbness in the fingertips it is a vast improvement.

Please could I be booked for another appointment as soon as possible in order to get the right hand surgery done.

Many Thanks

Fleur Burns

Steroid Injection success (so far anyway!)

Hello Dr Bland
Just wanted to update you - I had steroid injections into both wrists in August following discussion with you about whether or not to have surgery on my grade 3/4s.I am delighted to report that I have had no symptoms since, and also that the injections were surprisingly painless with only a couple of days of very slight weakness & bruising. I am hoping that the results will last, but wanted to inform you and also to encourage others to at least give the injections a try. I am hoping that posting this will not mean the symptoms suddenly return! - but i will let you know.

To inject or wait

Thank you very much for this forum I had my right hand done earlier this year although I felt the improvement was about 70% at the time I was disappointed that some digits had remained numb, but its now been about 6 months and I have a definite improvement in the fingers. I have been contemplating injections in my left wrist because this one is nothing like the right one was but still very painful at times and aches most of the time, but I didn’t realize this was a temporary fix.

Swelling of the hand after steriod injection

I have had 4 weeks with splints but they didn't make any difference, so I today saw my GP who gave me an injection in my right wrist on the spot. The injection itself was not bad at all but since then the pain is unbearable from my fingers, right up my arm, this I expect is quite normal but my whole hand has swollen very much, my thumb & fingers are especially bad. Is this normal? Also if this does not help in the long run what will happen next?
Many thanks for taking the time to read this
Kind regards

Progress report

Visited Dr Miles; agreed with action not to operate at present - ie to wait and see if symptons return and visit GP if they do. Left hand normal except I put it into a circular saw. Left hand v. slight numbness only in top few mm of index and ring fingers sometimes ring finger too, only, which mostly dissapears at night anyway. Only notice numbness when tips of fingers touched. Strange that you can feel numbness!

Steroid injection wait

I have just got off the phone to the "Surgery in Primary Care Scheme". This was my third phone call to try and get a date for a steriod injection (having been referred 13/10/11). The earliest date available to a GP surgery I can travel to is 2 months away, wondered if you were aware there was such a long wait at present in the Canterbury area?

surgery

I just wanted to say that i am very pleased with the surgery. I want to say that Dr Rine and his nurses were so good they made me feel very relaxed and not worried about the procedure andI left feeling very happy about the whole thing and I have no worries at all about returning in three months time to have my other hand done. I appologies if this forum is just ment for questions but I really wanted to make a point of passing on my gratitude for their wonderful work and patient care .

message for dr bland

hello i came to see you on 18 august. regarding my right hand / arm, you sugested the splint for my hands.
have used it on my right hand which is worse but has not improved. in fact it is worse all the way up my arm & now going to my neck & giving me quite a bit of pain & is constant. is not working at night either just wondered what the next step is you suggested the injection. i will wait to hear from you many thanks.

Improvement after using splints

My symptoms have virtually disappeared after using the splints, I am sleeping through the night with no tingling in the mornings have not worn the splints for the past four nights, there is a slight tingling when I am on the computer or when I am using my hands but this is not causing any real pain.

I have an appointment on the 16th November for steroid injection should I cancel this.

Thank you

Splint worked second time round, op not needed

After coming for the consultation in July, I decided to re-try the splint that you asked about but had not seemed to work when I tried it before. I had changed my mouse to a thumb ball type one in the meantime. I put the hand in the splint on a pillow to the side, and this time it seems to have been really sucessful. Perhaps it was the combination of mouse change and splint.
As a result of the improvement I did not have the injection and now presume I should cancel the operation. Can I do that via this message?