Anyone else with carpel tunnel?

[Autoeng]

I've had carpel tunnel for about 17 years now and it has now gotten bad enough where I'm going to have to have a surgical correction. I'm taking 2400mg of Neurontin and 1000mg of Naproxin to try and get a good nights sleep. I've had 10 good nights sleep, where I don't wake up in pain, in the last four years. I've had to seriously readjust my hobby activities in the last year so as to not flair it up. No construction, no major detailing and no handling of tools that vibrate (i.e. PC). This all comes from 10 years as a seat designer with lots of sewing and installation of seat covers on top of just a lot of abuse from farming and construction.

Luckily, right now, I only have to have my right hand done. I've known that I have had the problem for a long time but put off surgery because of bad results that I have seen but technique and experience has grown enough now within the med community and the pain and discomfort has gotten too great to live with it any longer.

From the working angles and the vibrating PC I figure that some of the heavy detailers on here are suffering or risking the injury as well. I wish I had known how much damage I was doing and how much it would affect my life and I would have taken precautions like wearing a splint and stretching the hand muscles.

Anyone else had experience with CT?

[WSUcommuter]

My shop instructor back in HS had been pounding on metal and working with his hands for 25+ years when his carpel tunnel got to where he could no longer work or sleep at night. He had his left hand (left handed) put to surgery first and within a few months and a sleeve he was back to banging on tables while yelling at us in class.

I graduated before he had the other hand worked on but he said it was night and day for his left. Good luck!