Sore joint on left index finger

[alexanderzz]

...and if you're open to alternative remedies, a homoeopathy can help too.

All the best

If you spill a homeopathic medicine - what should you rinse it away with?



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[Skipped]

I don't have a problem with the ridicule of Homeopathy (as I understand the term).
I do have a problem if the OP should happen to interpret that as advice that medication alone is always the answer. Diet is important and your busy GP may not get around to mentioning that.

But first you need to find out - from your doctor - what the problem is.

[Kebabkid]

Wounded chaps, wounded!

Ok, you've had your bit of fun and let's hope the OP gets the problem quickly diagnosed and sorted and keep us posted.

All the best

[Blueingreen]

Been to see the doctor. I'm going back for blood tests to rule out anything more sinister but she seems confident what I have is the start of Osteoarthritis, more specifically Heberden's nodes. She seemed to think that this was pretty benign and nothing to worry about, that it shouldn't affect my guitar playing once it settles down but I'm getting a slightly different message online where a number of players are having problems with pain and stiffness making playing difficult. Hoping I have a mild/manageable version.

[Skipped]

About 5 years ago I starget getting pain in one finger joint - little finger, left hand. GP got me a hospital appointment who told me (after an x-ray) it was arthritis. The GP did not prescribe any treatment and more or less told me to wait and see.
I decided to just try to ignore it.
A few months later I had indeed forgotten all about - the problem had gone.
Surely it can only have been pure coincidence that I had started taking a high strength EPA tablet every day after reading about fish oils ???

Btw - In response to a poster asking recently about mild depression I was one of two posters urging the OP to think about EPA tablets. Can I assure the forum that I have no financial interest in the Omega 3 industry.

[Kebabkid]

Well, at least you now know what you're dealing with.

I hope your recovery is good and swift and your guitar-playing unhindered.

All the very best

[sambostar]

Arithritis is a bitch, but compared to Mick Mars you are all pussies.

Seriously though, I thought I had premature arthitis, and I actually do to a very miniscule extent, but at this time of year I found out it was in fact chilblains. My whole hand swells up and I get these big hard lumps on my knuckles which ache just like arthitis and I cannot even grasp a pen it gets so bad, not red and itchy at all like the usual chilblains, but only on my right hand, which is my working hand. It's the cold and damp. Well that is my self diagnosis. Fecked if I'II go and get more depressing news from a doctor. GP's are Jack of all trades, they only know what their experience and internet tells them. The good ones will tell you straight that they don't know and refer you. Until you have been refered to a specialist I wouldn't count anything as gospel.

More seriously though, although 99% is in your genes or your type of job, the more damage you do twisting your fingers in unnatural positions, then the more likely you are to develop arthitis as you get older. Take it easy, relax, everything hurts but just make sure you don't damage yourself.

As for arthistis and premaure joint wear or abnormal bone growth generally, there is really little they can do but prescribe you painkillers. Usually an operation will in itself cause twice as much damage in the long run as the bone grows back and starts grating again. So to that extent they are not lying.

My philosophy is that your body is like a valve amp. It is truely shit and painful when you go hard at it and haven't allowed time for it to warm up.

Or move to Borneo where nothing will ever hurt ever again and forgot the cold, damp, pain inducing, winter days

[octatonic]

I don't have a problem with the ridicule of Homeopathy (as I understand the term).
I do have a problem if the OP should happen to interpret that as advice that medication alone is always the answer. Diet is important and your busy GP may not get around to mentioning that.

But first you need to find out - from your doctor - what the problem is.

Wrapping it in ham is the way to go. It will be well cured.

[sambostar]

And don't go to an acupuncture salon. They are a front for the Triads and money laundering from slavery and drugs.

Little do these hypocondriacal old women know that they are indirectly funding illegal immigration.

[bochetagrave]

I was having left hand index finger joint pain a while back. I stopped playing for a while, and it sorted it. If you're worried - get to the doc's, though! Better safe than sorry..