tebop opened this issue on Aug 25, 2007 · 43 posts
lonar posted Sun, 26 August 2007 at 9:20 AM
Lol let me join in on the parade of people with this problem. I found out I had this problem after taking Topamax for my chornic daily headaches that have hit me for over 5 years now, but I just have taken the Topamax for a year now which allowed us to notice the tingling in my fingers. When I started get tingling in the left hand pinky and ring finger to find out I had a pinched ulnar nerve. My neurologist sent me to physical therapy which helped alot to reduce the swelling around the elbow, I just finished that therapy a month ago so its to early to know how it went. I still have a little tingling but not like it was but i do the exercises the therapist gave me daily to help me out. One thing I did which helped even before I saw the therapist is when you are at a chair with armrests is to try not to have the elbow with direct pressure on the elbow as much as possible if you have the ulnar nerve condition cause that aggravates it. As well how my desk is L shaped with my computer in the corner to help me with that situation I put a towel under the arm making sure the elbow was cantalevering over the back of the towel to help so no pressure is put on it while at the computer which also helped. I hope this gives you some ideas to all that suffer to find creative ways to find work arounds to cope with these problems.