Anybody here have carpal tunnel?

[pianogirl04]

I've been fighting with something that resembles carpal tunnel for the past four years on and off... it acts up when I'm playing, my fingers and my wrist ache deep down, I shake my hand out a lot, and then it might not act up for a week or more (or until I sleep on it, whichever comes first). I've had a couple fingers lock up one time and it hasn't happened since... but yesterday, my whole wrist just started to ache... like hitting your funny bone really hard kind of pain that seems like it's not pain at all. I've had some shooting pains up my arm, my first three fingers tingle just a little bit... but what really has me worried is I feel like I'm losing my strength. I can make a loose fist and I can grip things, but I feel this need to look at my hand and make sure it's actually doing that because the feeling isn't... totally there. I'm scared, to say the least.

If it's not any better by Monday, I'm going in to get it looked at -- and I hope like hell my insurance covers diagnostic tests and specialists... and that I don't have to have surgery.