Why does my left thumb hurt?!
Question: Every morning for the last three weeks i've awoken to pain in my left thumb joint. It feels like i've been bending it back too far. This is annoying.
Why is this , and how do i make it stop?
Answers: Every morning for the last three weeks i've awoken to pain in my left thumb joint. It feels like i've been bending it back too far. This is annoying.
Why is this , and how do i make it stop?
Hey Smooty,
What's up? (Besides your thumb hurting.)
Sounds like arthritis to me. I've had it since I was in my twenties, and it will appear in any joint in my body at random (a toe, a finger, a hip, a shoulder, an elbow, a knee, you name it.) You should have a blood work-up done by a doctor, as there are many types of arthritis-rheumatoid being in a class all it's own (which I have) , and is usually a symptom of an autoimmune disease. This is a worse case scenario, of course!
Then again, do you pop open a lot of beer cans?
Play a lot of PlayStation?
Pissed off a Santarian who has a voodoo doll with needle in left thumb?
Seriously, sounds like a minor case of arthritis, which we all get to some extent sooner or later. It's usually at it's worse in the morning, as our blood does not circulate as much during our sleep like it does while we are up and around.
An over the counter anti-inflammatory (naproxen) such as Aleve or Motrin will help a lot. Good luck Smooty, & keep in touch!
Maybe you slept on your hand too much.
Pain as you described is often a symptom of arthritis or gout, but I suspect if you had gout you'd use a more flavorful adjective than "annoying".
Do you remember if you hyper extended it? I have this with my right thumb - I was closing a cap on a pump and it bent back too far. That was 6 months ago and it still bothers me ever so often. Kinda sucks.