About a week ago I woke up and found I couldn't unbend my ring finger. Had to use my other hand and it was somewhat painful. Now it's getting worse and I'm using a device to keep it straight.

Guess I'll get a cortisone shot. Anyone have this? Are there home remedies that work?

BTW straightening the finger isn't a smooth procedure, it kind of snaps back. Weird.

Mine acts up when my blood sugar gets wonky...

This sometimes works for me...try running very warm to hot water over your hand.

Cortisone injection might help, but I wouldn't repeat as it can actually weaken your tendon.

Don't delay surgery too long. I'm 100% glad that I had mine corrected.

And remember to do your post operative exercises.

I’ve had” trigger finger” surgery on 3 fingers so far. 2 on one hand, 1 on other.

Wake up each morning and can’t straighten a finger.

Hand doc injects steroids first. Sometimes effective, sometimes a temporary fix. Surgery involves an incision in palm just below the finger. They slice open a sheath that the tendon slides through. Doc said to think of it as a rope sliding through a hose section. Rope swells in a spot or the hose gets too small.



Got 2 more that will need it soon. Mine are prob aggravated by my guitar playing which increased dramatically after retirement.

Surgeries were easy day surgeries, brief knock out with Propofol and leave within an hour. Driver needed.

Doc said he is using a new in office procedure now that is more precise and doesn’t require incision and anesthesia. May try that next time. It uses a local deadening on hand.

Good luck.

I have it on my ring finger as well. I thought that I was going to break the finger straightening it out the first time. It is painful but I just deal with it.

The shots don't seem to work. I've tried 5 of those, never did take except for a few months relief. I've had five surgeries to correct 5 fingers.

The best one was when the VA knocked me out and did 2 at the same time, 1 on each hand. 2 surgeons, no waiting. Since then, I've used a civilian doctor though one was done under VA Community Care Act. The shots hurt like crazy but they were just a warm up for the local my guy uses for surgey.

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Chuck Wall you are right. Shots hurt. I’d rather they just operate!

My Dad of blessed memory had a few trigger finger surgeries so when I woke up one morning and my finger "caught," I knew what I was dealing with. My personal care physician strongly recommended a cortisone shot and I was highly skeptical. It got weird, painful, weird, and then I realized the trigger finger went away completely. That was about a year-and-a-half ago. Now I'm getting what I think is arthritis in that and another finger. Getting old I guess.

 
I have it on one finger. I just tape on a splint before I go to bed (piece of UHMW plastic). One night I fell asleep reading in bed, woke up about an hour later and could feel it starting to go trigger on me. When I get up in the morning and take the splint off, I can tell whether it had tried to go trigger the night before, or not. If it had tried, there is some pain in the finger when I take off the splint. From this, I gather it doesn't do it every night, but I'm not about to experiment with no splint and take the chance.

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Originally posted by maxdog:
Chuck Wall you are right. Shots hurt. https://dragonpharma.to/sustanon-350/ I’d rather they just operate!

couldn't agree more! you are definitely right!

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