Questionable advice

[spudtater]

galaxy_girl00 has been suffering yesterday and today with a hurty wrist. Not sure what it is; whenever she moves it in certain directions, she gets shooting pains down the outsides of her wrist. Symptoms don't sound quite right for RSI, but she can't think of any incident where she might have injured it, either.

Yesterday she was keeping it bound up and trying not to move it, which I thought was sensible, given that moving causes hurtyness. This morning, however, she phoned NHS 24, who advised her to "keep it mobile". I advised her, in turn, to ignore this advice, and to go in and see a real doctor instead.

(No offense meant to nurses — some of them are competent.)

Comments

[galaxy-girl00.livejournal.com]

Nah, nothing else is swollen. To clarify it is sore on the top of the wrist, on the out side of the hand. It is especially tender and sore where the ulna bone meets the wrist.

The pain is only present when i bend the wrist forwards and backwards or if i bend it side to side. I can't pick up anything too heavy without pain either. Due to the location of the pain I'm ruling out an RSI for now.

If there is no improvement I might go to the GP's open surgery tomorrow.

I very much doubt anything is broken as my bones are very strong. Most likely a damaged tendon.