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Has anyone experienced a sudden hand cramp to where you have pain and your hand looks like a claw? This is a new symptom and not sure whether it's fibro or not. My right hand is the one with carpal tunnel so I was surprised my hand did this and I was only holding a bowl of soup when it happened. Any ideas? Thanks.
Posted on 05/16/08, 05:05 pm
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Reply #1 - 05/16/08  5:53pm
" YEAH, I HAVE HAND ISSUES BUT ITS JUST SHOOTING PAINS AND FLINGING THINGS LIKE COMBS AND PICKS...NOT CURLING UP....HEATHER "
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Reply #2 - 05/16/08  6:05pm
" I suffer with cramping in my hands, but i'm also not sure if it is anything to do with the fibro.....and i've also just been diagnoised
with carpal tunnel syndrome. Sorry i couldn't be of more help!!..love and hugs Ellie xxx "
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Reply #3 - 05/16/08  6:12pm
" I get the cramps in my hands and feet. I've never had carpel tunnel, but I had R wrist surgery for my dequevians tendion (the thumb) and it was pinched, had bone spurs and a cyst in there to. All of it was scraping my tendion. The only good from it all was I had a cute surgeon. I'm sure he thought the same of me when I was sitting there drooling on the surgery table! LOL. "
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Reply #4 - 05/16/08  6:19pm
" That was my first experience that something was wrong and started going through test after test and blood work, to find out the hand cramping was from fibro.
I think typing on here or just using our hand alot starts the inflammation of fibro at times.
Try warming your hand at times and massaging it. "
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Reply #5 - 05/16/08  10:19pm
" My left foot does that. "
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Reply #6 - 05/16/08  10:31pm
" Yes, My hands and feet do that alot! I just rub them out untile it stopes but it does hurt quite a lot. "
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Reply #7 - 05/16/08  10:36pm
" I have muscle spasms in my hands that seem to be related to a trigger point in my palm. I can "cause" the spasm by pressing on the trigger point - I have one in each hand. "
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Reply #8 - 05/16/08  11:31pm
" I do have some trouble with hands. They don't freeze up. But they will "give out" or get weak. "
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Reply #9 - 05/16/08  11:34pm
" I have the same problem. My hands swell, burn, get numb, and for a while my thumb hurt in the joint. Sometimes I would have to put it back in place. Well that stopped and now I have a huge Knot at the base of my thumb. With everything else I guess that's minor. "
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Reply #10 - 05/16/08  11:47pm
" I've been diagnosed and had the fibro pain for almost three years but the last couple of months my hands have been acting weird. I get sharp crippling pains and sometimes it gets so bad that they feel like claws and i need to crack my knuckles to be able to move them. I've never being tested for carpel... "
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