I think Inksgiving gave me carpal tunnel syndrome?!

[lartianmartian1]

I must have clicked my mouse too intensely, over and over, for too long? I feel it all the way up my right arm. I just give too much of myself, I guess.

... Seriously, this doesn't happen to me, any pointers?

P.S. This is not to bad mouth Inksgiving. I think it's a neat event that we should definitely do again next year, hopefully? I just got too... charitable this time around.

[racarter]

You’re gonna wanna do some wrist and hand stretches to prevent it from getting worse.

Also I recommend sleeping with a wrist splint, and wearing it during the day only when it hurts.

Go easy on computer stuff or switch to using your other hand for a little while. I have carpal tunnel, it isn’t fun. But your description matches what happened to me, so I suggest you get on top of it. It’s probably been a long time coming tho and the amount of clicking you did just made it to where you finally felt it.

[beta1042]

it may be carpel tunnel it may be ulnar- I'll look up stretches for both and see which one helps the most. And well give your arm/hand/wrist a chance to rest up.

Carpal tunnel you want a straight wrist- so wrist split will be helpful. But Ulnar is usually due to a bent Elbow (I'm bringing up ulnar because its what I get and tends to hurt up the arm to the elbow and makes my pinky finger go numb) so if you find it's Ulnar you want to sleep with a straight elbow.

[lartianmartian1]

Thank you so much!!!!! And you are probably most definitely right about that

[lartianmartian1]

Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!

[beta1042]

so one of the ones that is helpful for carpel tunnel is pulling your thumb backward toward your body. Kinda pull and hold for a few seconds.

Then do something similar for the pinky for the ulnar. If one of those is providing better relief than the other that can help give your answer for which it is, then as I said earlier, make sure to keep the wrist straight for carpel tunnel, elbow straight for ulnar.

I can't seem to find the video of the wrist exercises that I like the most, but I did find some pictures of a few:

Also having your arm out straight in front of you and just open and closing a fist slowly is good, do it 5-10 times with your palm facing down and then 5-10 times palm facing up, for each hand.

[Draconic]

I can't use my mouse for a long period of time too. So I have a plan to buy this mouse.

Logitech MX Vertical Ergonomic Mouse for Stress Injury Care

If you have money, you should buy it.

[Lady_DarkStar]

Here is a video I have found helpful.

[feuersichel]

Also check how you are holding your mouse. There should be a stight line from your arm to your hand.