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?

After four weeks of using splints...

I have been wearing the splints at night now for four weeks. Finally I have known the joy of uninterrupted sleep! However, although I am no longer being woken up during the night by any numbness, when I wake up normaly in the morning, the tingling and numbness starts (even with the splints on, in both hands) and continues for about ten minutes or so after I take the splints off.

Should I continue with the splints for a bit longer?

Many thanks.

Visit to Canterbury

Hello Dr. Bland Thank you for seeing me at Canterbury to-day and for the tests and scan. I will try the splints and hope to get some improvement over the next few weeks. I will give an update later. Pat

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Good morning Dr

update

Hello Dr. Bland,
You may be able to tell that I'm not good with computers having sent you a blank message!!

CTS Injection on 2 August 2011 ... Further Update

Hello Dr Bland,

Since my last update, I have been experiencing sporadic returns of CTS symptoms. These have been relatively minor and only occasional. I wonder if you could enlighten me as to the advisability and potential benefit of having another injection. If indeed you do recommend another injection, what would be the appropriate timescale? As a matter of fact, I do have a follow-up appointment with Dr Biggs on the 4th October. Would this be a suitable time for another injection?

Kind regards.