Wellness

[Carolm]

I had it on my ring finger.  Went to a hand specialist and he put a splint on it that I left on for eight weeks.  When it came off, my finger is now straight like the others and has remained so.  I was very pleased with the outcome.

[SeaMaiden]

WOW Did not know this was such a common afliction...really had only heard the name but not what it was.... 

[chickenbutt]

I had a trigger thumb issue on my right hand several years back.    When I was at the ortho doc, 5 years ago when I broke my arm, I asked him about it.  He said he could do a surgery for it.  I really could not afford that but I looked into it and it sounds like it's not the best choice anyway.

It had gotten so painful after I had it for a while!

So, as I do with other afflictions, I just thought about it and decided to put a thumb guard on it and a few times a day, when I was sitting around, I would remove the thumb guard and massage that joint for a while.

After a while, it was just gone!  It went from being horribly painful to just nothing!  I was thrilled.

The 'guard' I used was one of those things you can buy (I got mine on amazon) that seems to be made of, maybe, aluminum with some bit of padding on the inside.  They have finger ones, too.   It's shaped like an elongated 'U' and goes right over the finger and you can cinch it down with tape.  What I ended up doing, because I had to take it off from time to time to do things, was I took a couple of bandaids and put around it in two spots.  That was enough to hold it there when I wanted it on, yet I could easily remove it when I needed to and then just put it back on, leaving the bandaids on it all the time.

I hope you're able to get relief.  It seemed like the longer I had it the more it hurt.  At first it really didn't hurt much but it seemed like I kept clicking it and, who knows, maybe that made it worse.  But it's been almost 5 years and it hasn't come back.

[MezzieStarr]

Have an Aunt and a co-worker that had it. Both had surgery.  Funny how it was something I had never heard of until about 5 years ago.  Now everyone seems to have it. 🤷

[sharkb8]

I had trigger thumbs in both hands. The hand specialist that I saw injected both with steroids.
That was back in December.
No pain or problems since.

[chickenbutt]

This is the one I bought.  Clearly, I had forgotten the name of it but I just remembered that I had purchased an extra one that's still in the box - 

[Mindy D]

@bargainsgirl @I have it. It's on my left hand and it doesn't bother me so I've left it alone. I think I've had it three years now. It started when I was playing around putting my hands into funny stretched out positions. 

[browney]

I had this problem too on my right ring finger. I looked up some exercises on the internet and did them everyday for a couple of months and I haven't had any problem with it since.

[NEvans2]

I had trigger finger in my middle finger on my right hand about four years ago. It got so bad I had a cortisone injection in my hand right below that finger. It never came back. Now I have it in my ring finger on the same hand. I do stretches with my fingers and make a fist with my hand and open and close it about six times a couple times a day while I'm watching TV or reading a book. I rub it with Bio Freeze before I go to bed and am very concious of what position I have that hand in when I go to sleep. So far this has been working out very well for me. Good Luck 🤞

[AuntG]

Was surprised when it happened to the ring finger of my right hand. After about three months, it cured itself with no medical intervention.