Have you ever had a sore swollen and stiff
pinkie?
That is without injuring it?
It's hard to say what is causing your swollen
and painful pinky. Since you didn't injure it, it could be something like
tendonitis, which is an inflammation and swelling of a tendon in the
finger. You could try applying an ice pack
for 20 minutes at a time. You might also take an over-the-counter anti-inflammatory medication like ibuprofen,
naproxen, or aspirin for the pain. If it doesn't improve in a couple of
days or gets worse, you should definitely see a doctor.”
That is without injuring it?
Googled, “stiff pinkie all of
a sudden?”
Oddly enough someone else
experienced the same problem:
“
July 25, 2009
What is causing the
unexplained pain, swelling, and stiffness of my pinky finger?
Yesterday I woke up and the pinky finger on
my left hand hurt to bend and was a little swollen at the base of the
finger (where the finger meets the palm of my hand). Today, the pain and
swelling increased, and I also have stiffness of the finger. I didn't
injure or do anything to my finger; these symptoms just started
unexpectedly to just one finger/joint. What could be wrong? Do I need to see
a doctor?”
- See more at
http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/question/917611/79994#sthash.xjw6JauY.dpuf
Health Guide
Tendonitis
- See more at:
http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/question/917611/79994#sthash.xjw6JauY.dpuf
Apparently, other people have
had this anomaly also occur without logic or reasoning.
Any-who, it is one of the
reasons I am writing tonight only one handed; lefty is on ice, pinkie wise that
is.
As it stated above to leave
the ice on only twenty minutes, but I have been up and down from this seat
where the towel ala ice pack is perched upon my desktop computer table.
The clock on this elderly
computer works fine in the corner of this screen, but oops I have forgotten
when I started the icing process…uh oh, and it does seem to help.
It has to be nearly ten
minutes by now, hope not, since it does feel oh so much better!
Really when have you not iced
a bad boo boo when it didn’t make it feel better?
Sure there is a fear of frost
bite or indefinite numbness, nah, but not me!
I sadly recall a stupid thing
that I did way back around 1975 while walking Number One to his Montessori
class and I foolishly tried to light up a cigarette in a very cold wind and the whole
match book went up into flames in my hand, yep the same hand that garners my
sore pinkie right now, lefty, deje vu, hmm? I had second degree burns, blisters
all over my palm, very painful! So when I arrived home after dropping my son at
his destination, I put the hand in a bowl of ice! But every time I tried to
remove it the severe pain resumed, it was hours until I was able to remove my
hand. No Internet to Google then or quickie doctor info to access only what
seemed to work.
Today, I would be scolded for
leaving my hand in the ice for too long and for smoking at all,which I did stop years ago, thankfully. Although, my
end result was that I had no frost bite or lasting negative effects from my way
of handling my burn, excuse the pun, not really, my hand always functioned just
fine after the incident, and had no scars at all.
It is true that I do have
arthritis in both hands, but for over twenty years, which is not unusual for
anyone who uses computers or drove as much as I did, 3K a month, osteoarthritis
is common in all joints, it’s called the wear and tear one. And most people get
it if they have lived…it is one of the more than 100 types; I have eight of
them and I was diagnosed over twenty years ago with them.
Moving on…
I did go with Hubby via our
new ride to the rehab/gym today and spent about twenty minutes using all my
designated equipment except the stationary bike and I did not collapse, HOORAY!
We after went over to Panera’s
and then to Lowe’s to look for under cabinet LED lights and we did find the
type I wanted, cordless but needing batteries although the ones I chose they
were included.
Hubby would have preferred ones
with wires, but I felt he would be taking away outlets that I needed, since at
this stage ripping open the walls would not be possible and or too messy to
hard wire them all…
These disc like ones, each
came with three triple A’s, only four for four locations in our tiny galley kitchen
were needed to create ambient light for tasks.
On that note of I will see that
he is probably right about the so-called savings will go the wrong way with the tallying up in replacement
batteries…so allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good
night and ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your
overages with you know who and we will too!
And next time please be here
or be square, ya hear!
PS Time to ice the pinkie
again, YAY!
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