It was a very productive visit to the hand specialist yesterday and I think he's diagnosed the problem. After pressing on various areas of my hands and wrists, he found I have inflammation of the tendon sheaths associated with the index and middle fingers of my right hand and (less so) the index finger and pinkie of my left hand. He also said I have something called trigger finger which is when the inflammation of the tendon sheath causes a finger to become bent, stiff and to pop when straightened. This has been happening to my right middle finger at night when I'm sleeping.
His solution was to inject a steroid into the base of the two fingers in my right hand. Painful, you ask? Why yes, yes it was. However, it seems to have helped almost immediately, although I was told it might take several weeks for the inflammation to die down completely. So hopefully I'll see even more improvement over the coming weeks. He also wants me to go for physical therapy on the left hand and my wrists to get some ultrasound for the remaining inflammation and then some stretching and strengthening exercises. It seems I've been overusing my hands, mostly with all the computer work I do, and maybe somewhat with the weight training. The computer work I can cut back on since about 30% of it is simply recreational. Not cutting back on the weight training, no sir, no how.
Things are going well with the diet. I had a minor blip of binging Wednesday night after dinner (hungry, oh so hungry) but I was back this morning with a 1 lb loss (231 lbs). It seems I get gnarly about the fifth day of dieting so I'm thinking it might be a beneficial to have a planned "splurge" every fifth day after dinner to take the edge off so I don't have unplanned binges that make me feel bad about myself.
But it's time to go out for a walk...so later, alligator.
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