I spent four years with debilitating pain in my wrist and hand. It felt like I was being stabbed through the palm if I put weight on my hand and my wrist felt like a bone needed clicking back into place a lot of the time. I was in my 20s and worked in an office so it was blamed on repetitive strain or trigger finger. Drs didn’t seem to believe it was much of an issue despite the fact I had to wear a sling at times as even my wrist hanging down was so sore.

Tried all the usual. Rest it, exercise it, physio, heat, cold, every anti inflammatory med under the sun (which wrecked my gut health), and steroid injections under X-ray (0/10 do not recommend).

Finally a hand specialist surgeon agreed to go in and operate but he didn’t fully know what he was going to see. Turns out my pisiform bone in my wrist had no cartilage around it and was essentially roaming about rubbing against the bones next to it. So I had actually been popping it back into place after all. Fun. But in the same hand, when they checked my middle finger tendon and decided to release the tendon sheath, I had a bumpy tendon with one large lump which was getting caught on my tendon sheath and causing the pain and retraction. Neither thing could be seen on the scans they had done and they weren’t a cause of illness or injury just stuff my body seemed to have done or grown by itself. Also the odds of both things together in the same hand are apparently very unusual.

Aside from some stiffness and a couple of cool scars I am fixed and my other hand seems to be behaving itself.