On my NCT (?)/ EMG my median nerve was "borderline". I did have carpel tunnel syndrome there 2-3 years prior. I read today in a health mag that CTS could really be the bad disease. This scared me because just yesterday I felt "nerve pain" shoot down my median nerve a couple of times. Of course I also have much more twitching in this area than on the other arm. Should I be concerned?
Median Nerve Pain and CTS: Cause for Concern?
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Hi StephG22,
Can you clarify this post? I'm not exactly sure why you're worried.
Are you asking if CTS is a really bad disease in general?....or are you stating that the health mag inferred that CTS could be linked to 'the bad disease' (meaning ALS)?
If you have the magazine on hand, maybe you could write the quote that is worrying you, so we get a better understanding.
Thanks--(and I have a feeling you don't need to worry regardless
)
Amy
Can you clarify this post? I'm not exactly sure why you're worried.
Are you asking if CTS is a really bad disease in general?....or are you stating that the health mag inferred that CTS could be linked to 'the bad disease' (meaning ALS)?
If you have the magazine on hand, maybe you could write the quote that is worrying you, so we get a better understanding.
Thanks--(and I have a feeling you don't need to worry regardless
)Amy
AveryzAveriezA
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StephG22,
I read somewhere that CTS is sometimes diagnosed when in fact it is the bad disease. But, this is because the person has awful symptoms like they have trouble moving the hand, weakness in the hand etc. They then go to an orthopedic surgeon who treats it as Carpal tunnel, even sometimes doing surgery and low and behold the disease progresses and the person gets bounced around to a bunch of doctors and after neuro testing is the bad disease.
This does not apply to a person who has gone to a neuro scared of als and then after exam is diagnosed with bfs. I in fact have some sort of nerve inflamation in my right wrist - not carpal tunnel - but something else that came on from lifting my daughter and was made worse by weeding the garden - I can feel it every day although it is much better. My neuro seemed entirely unconcerned about this after exam. It is like a pain, not a weakness.
Now if you say you had carpal tunnel 2 years ago this would have absolutley nothing to do with als. It would have progressed to a point of real, absolute weakness and totally abnormal neuro testing results by now.
Carpal tunnel is super common as you know and it would be absolutely resonable for one to have it along with bfs - much more common than the unfortuate scenario detailed above which does not apply to you.
Ava
I read somewhere that CTS is sometimes diagnosed when in fact it is the bad disease. But, this is because the person has awful symptoms like they have trouble moving the hand, weakness in the hand etc. They then go to an orthopedic surgeon who treats it as Carpal tunnel, even sometimes doing surgery and low and behold the disease progresses and the person gets bounced around to a bunch of doctors and after neuro testing is the bad disease.
This does not apply to a person who has gone to a neuro scared of als and then after exam is diagnosed with bfs. I in fact have some sort of nerve inflamation in my right wrist - not carpal tunnel - but something else that came on from lifting my daughter and was made worse by weeding the garden - I can feel it every day although it is much better. My neuro seemed entirely unconcerned about this after exam. It is like a pain, not a weakness.
Now if you say you had carpal tunnel 2 years ago this would have absolutley nothing to do with als. It would have progressed to a point of real, absolute weakness and totally abnormal neuro testing results by now.
Carpal tunnel is super common as you know and it would be absolutely resonable for one to have it along with bfs - much more common than the unfortuate scenario detailed above which does not apply to you.
Ava