Ow

[tephra]

Left Wrist is exercising the right to veto and knitting is off the list of approved activities for a while. It has chosen to do so just 23 rows from the end of the second mitt for Kris, and because I seem to be incapable of leaving a small project out in plain sight and not picking it up and working on it I'll be putting that in the bin with the lace shawl. The sweater I can leave out because the combination of long rows and a heavy project deters me. If I give in all it takes is picking it up to make me put it back since it lives to the left of the PC and Left Wrist rejects it immediately.

This really sucks. The fact that I woke up in the middle of the night because my wrist hurt so much that I strapped on the brace to get to sleep sucks even more. :P

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[watanukisuki.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'm really sorry. :( I've been through that with my right wrist, too, with the pain at night and everything. It really sucks. I wish I could wave a magic wand and make it go away. The only way I got mine to stop hurting, was to stop what was making in hurt (i.e. quit my network admin job which caused me to abuse it 8-12 hours a day).

[tephra]

I started having problems with both hands when I was working as a programmer, but the left one has had problems since I was a teen. I had a really bad habit of loading up my backpack/book bag so it was at least 30 pounds and then swinging it up to my left shoulder with my left hand. The strap would put all the weight on my thumb just before it went to my shoulder so the thumb would be hyperflexed for a moment. Yeah, stupid things we do as kids. *sigh*

I think the knitting is tapping into that problem since my current projects are either on small needles (3.5 and 3mm) so that I'm basically pinching something for extended periods or they are heavy. I'm sure knitting 3500+ stitches (on 3mm needles) in a day didn't help.

Arthritis runs in the family but I thought I'd have another twenty years at least. :P