My Stupid Wrists

[frayadjacent]

In the last week I've developed repetitive stress injuries in both wrists/hands/forearms.  It sucks.  So, I'm majorly limiting my computer time for the next...little while.

:(

Comments

[rodo]

... How does that feel? Because I've been playing Assassin's Creed 3 for almost three days straight (sleep and food are for the weak) and my hands/forearms feel achy and stiff and so on, which they've never done before.

[frayadjacent]

It feels more like soreness? It's mostly on my inner wrists and forearms, and also on my fingers and elbows of one arm. But it can be more of a sharp pain when I try to grip something or if I'm on the computer very long. It gets worse throughout the day, too. It sounds like you should rest and stretch too!

[rodo]

Yeah, sounds like what I have a bit, only I don't have much sharp pain, as long as I don't do anything very strenous like picking up my coat. Typing is a problem, though, because a short comment is about everything I manage until my hands are shaking and refuse to work.

A good time to catch up on watching series, I think.

[frayadjacent]

Yikes! Yes, rest up and take care!

[luzula]

Ack, take it easy! That happened to me during dissertation writing (or rather, it was more my fingers than my wrists), and I still have problems 8 years later. /o\

[frayadjacent]

Oh, that's horrible! Yikes. I'm hoping I can nip this in the bud by resting and switching to more ergonomic set-ups both at work and home (and stopping working on my laptop entirely), but I know there's already some damage ... we'll see.

I'm also doing almost no vidding, which sucks, because I'm really excited about vidding right now! And I have two deadlines two months from now.

[natmerc]

Rest and take care.

Unfortunately, now that you've had it once you're more likely to get it in the future. :(

I guess that's my rec to actually do any exercises they recommend and rest and such. Even if it suck.

[frayadjacent]

Yeah, I agree. It'll definitely be better in the long run if I take as much care as I can. But yeah, I'm mentally preparing myself for this to be an ongoing problem, and hoping I can just minimize it as much as possible.