The title is not a metaphor: I have a severe pain in my left wrist.<\/p>\n
It kicked off before Christmas and had largely gone away by New Year, but has returned with a vengeance. There is a pain on the outer side of my left wrist, in a small localised area: particularly painful doing anything<\/em> at all involving gripping or lifting, even small objects such as mugs of tea, books etc. Applications of “max-strength” ibuprofen gel haven’t helped much and, although alleviating some of the symptoms, nor has bandaging the wrist up using a conventional bandage or a “tubi-grip”.<\/p>\n Finally went to see $LOCAL_PRACTITIONER today and he was unable to fully diagnose, but there is a possibility that I have (hopefully mild) tendonitis<\/a>. I note with some amusement that tendonitis is often considered to be a “sports injury” … Very funny, I’m sure. The $LOCAL_PRACTITIONER has prescribed some anti-inflammatory tablets: a whole month’s supply, which doesn’t bode well for his expectations that this will be cured quickly.<\/p>\n To be honest, I’m not entirely sure what caused this, although it may well have had something to do with a lot of heavy lifting (of UPSes and other kit) I did just before Christmas: the pain began the next day.<\/p>\n A slight concern of mine is that after a whole day of work (typing, a lot), the pain is worse. I’ve never had any<\/em> RSI-like symptoms, and I’m hoping that’s not what this is, and that it’s just a consequence of the other injury. I’m going to reduce my non-work computing use for a while, though.<\/p>\n Anyway, I’m trying to rest it as much as possible and, amongst other things, definitely won’t be playing Enemy Territory<\/a> for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The title is not a metaphor: I have a severe pain in my left wrist. It kicked off before Christmas and had largely gone away by New Year, but has returned with a vengeance. There is a pain on the outer side of my left wrist, in a small localised area: particularly painful doing anything… (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}