{"id":231,"date":"2006-01-17T21:09:35","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T21:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=231"},"modified":"2006-01-17T21:09:35","modified_gmt":"2006-01-17T21:09:35","slug":"wrist-wars-ii-attack-of-the-anti-inflammatories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Wrist Wars II: Attack of the Anti-Inflammatories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following on in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=230\">this saga<\/a>: since Friday I have been taking a hefty dose of the anti-inflammatory tablets which are based on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diclofenac\">diclofenac<\/a>.  The clearest effect they are having is <em>drowsiness<\/em>: an hour or two after taking them, I get really sleepy.  This is a bit annoying, but not really too much of a problem.  I guess they are also having their intended effects, although this is actually harder to detect!<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to rest the wrist, I had it in a sling over most of the weekend: this was perhaps a little melodramatic but probably the best way to make me stop trying to use it.  The rest helped a lot, which is very reassuring.  I also made an effort to avoid typing much over the weekend, which I succeeded in doing.  Any typing was with my right hand only.  (Ever tried typing a 50-character passphrase, tediously slowly with just one hand, only to find that it&#8217;s wrong and have to redo it about three times?  But I digress&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping typing to a minimum at work, which although tricky has been possible.  This has also helped and the wrist is feeling noticeably better.  I haven&#8217;t biked to work since Friday 6 January, which has reduced the strain on the wrist, but is a bit annoying because taking the bus means (a) longer commutes and (b) less <em>predictable<\/em> commutes.  I can put up with this for a while though, in order to further rest the injury.<\/p>\n<p>In summary: reasonable progress, but still a little way to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on in this saga: since Friday I have been taking a hefty dose of the anti-inflammatory tablets which are based on diclofenac. The clearest effect they are having is drowsiness: an hour or two after taking them, I get really sleepy. This is a bit annoying, but not really too much of a problem&#8230;.&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=231\">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-231","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\/231","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=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}