So I have an odd pain in my hand which isn't serious enough to get me to the doctor but is novel enough to make me wonder what the heck I did.
It seems to center on the first knuckle of my right-hand middle finger. (The distal end of the 3rd metacarpal and base of the 3rd proximal phalanx.) If I'm not doing anything at all, faint ache. If I type, I feel a twinge when I reach with that finger or use it press a key at anything other than the home position of that finger.
It hurts when I make a fist, and if I push that finger in any direction with my other hand while relaxing my right hand. It doesn't hurt as much, but still a little, when I grip something with my entire hand. The knuckle is a little bit puffy, but not noticeable unless you compare it against my other hand (I normally have very bony-looking knuckles). I feel some pain when I squeeze the joint with my left hand fingers.
Could this be a fracture of some kind? I hope I'm not getting arthritic. The only thing I can remember doing that *might* have injured this hand was wakeboarding about 10 days ago - my hands felt sore from gripping the tow rope afterward, but the soreness faded after a couple of days and I didn't have any pain until yesterday morning, when I was using this hand to do a lot of scrubbing. Could the several times the boat pulled the bar on the end of the rope out of my hands, while I tried to hang on, have injured my hand in some latent fashion that didn't manifest until I re-stressed it by cleaning a bunch of stuff?
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I think it might be a bit less painful today, but it is somewhat stiff. I think the joint is properly joined. Maybe this will just go away.
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As a really bizarre coincidence, I have virtually identical symptoms in my right ring finger today except there is no visable evidence of any swelling. Its rather strange, just a twinge in the knuckle when I move it in certain directions.
The hand was fine last night when I went to bed but was hurting when I woke up in the morning. I wonder if I slept on it wrong of something.
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Oooooo, the disease spreads not only between humans and computers but across platforms as well. I think we should name it the Intel flu, until intel complains.
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