I'm glad you mentioned this here because I've been living with it for the past 6 months or so.

It was really prominent at first, very tingly on the ring and little finger and the base of my palm. so I went to the doctor, "Oh you must've banged it". No bruises though, say again after 4 months or so "You probably slept on your arm and it'll go away soon".

So, here I am 6 months later and still no sign of going anywhere, to be honest I've grown used to it now. I never drop anything but they do get colder than the rest of my fingers, probably because I don't use them as much.

I'm averse to deciding to operate, mainly because it means cutting open my arm and messing around with what's inside, they don't have an awful lot to go on to know if they've done it right, other than looking at the nerve, only I can feel what my arm feels like after all.

So it can lead to being even worse than it was originally or another nerve entrapment somewhere further along the system. Not to mention the risk of infection, although they deal with it a lot I suppose.

However, not one to judge, if you do decide to go down that route, I would definitely like to know how it goes, but I would also try to make sure (or rather make your wishes known) that you get a doctor that deals specifically with nervous system problems or has some experience with sorting out ulnar nerve/cubital tunnel syndrome. 

This syndrome is very strange, because the cause certainly isn't obvious. If you hit your arm/neck/hand that hard you would certainly know about it.

It was very much like an oft repeated experience of it not being there one day and waking up the next with it, appearing out of nowhere like a phantom ( but with the difference that it decides it's going to hang around for some time rather than disappearing). 

Michael W

Edited By Michael-w on 07/05/2017 21:22:11

I have have both carpal tunnels and cubital tunnnels done, the former with local and the latter with general anaesthetic. I advise you to have a private electrical test done to establish which operation is required. The NHS electrical tests are notoriously unreliable, you can have the operation done on the NHS later, that will probably be ok. Any more information, please ask.

Best regards

Bert

My brother-in-law had both wrists operated on (not at the same time). Total success. He did not complain of any undue pain from the procedure.

Maurice

Mark

Yes, totally, I certainly don't regret it. If you do a lot of typing on the PC an ergonomic mouse and keyboard is a great help, both before and after the operation.

Bert