https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:16:10 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-2681138 Tue, 17 Jan 2017 03:00:47 +0000 jaguar 2681138@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>How are you going with it? Mine's flared up in the last week and is SO much worse than last time with Georgia. I can't function without the splint on... makes me think I'll be back at the doctors asking for some relief soon. :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-2670910 Wed, 28 Dec 2016 13:29:26 +0000 agold 2670910@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Amorini: The splints totally get in the way. I think I have stopped using my right hand so much that now I'm feeling the pain in my left hand! Ugh. So I wore the splint on my right hand last night while I slept, but the baby actually woke twice crying (this is new.. 4 month regression???). So I took the splint off after the second time she woke because I feel like it gets in the way. When I took it off, I could really tell that my right hand felt better than my left! So I think the splint works and I'll keep trying to wear it when I can. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-2670787 Wed, 28 Dec 2016 01:19:40 +0000 Amorini 2670787@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@agold: Hope yours is truly getting better! Mine feels a little worse and I can see that I've lost muscle tone in my hands (why not there, too, right?!). I have the neurology appointment in one month. I'm not sure I would do injections and definitely not surgery so...</p> <p>Are the splints at night helping? They seem like they would get in the way! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-2670780 Tue, 27 Dec 2016 23:53:20 +0000 agold 2670780@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MenagerieMama: I'm glad I just checked back on this thread. I got a brace but it really interfered with all of my daily activities. So I'm going to take your suggestion and wear it at night only while I sleep. I've adjusted my nursing position and it actually seems to help a little! I'm very surgery adverse as well. </p> <p>@jaguar: I'm sort of just dealing with it now! Its either getting a little better or I'm just getting used to it. I can't tell yet! I'm so glad that your pain ended. </p> <p>@Amorini: how are you feeling now? I hope its getting better for you. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-2661068 Sat, 03 Dec 2016 23:48:33 +0000 Amorini 2661068@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@agold: omg, I think I have this too. I still have some finger numbness at 7w PP from pregnancy carpal tunnel. The numbness was worse and recently got better, but now this! My OB wants me to see a neurologist because of the lingering numbness but I'm pretty sure I'll end up in splints and PT (which I don't have time for either). For now, I'm trying to be careful how I use my wrists so they don't get worse. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-2660911 Fri, 02 Dec 2016 23:43:55 +0000 jaguar 2660911@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@agold: We started with the splint, then no relief - so had one shot (ouch) and it lasted for a few weeks... and I ended up having one more before deciding to just deal with it. Thankfully it did end!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-2660836 Fri, 02 Dec 2016 17:28:55 +0000 MenagerieMama 2660836@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@agold: knock on wood going on forever! I'm pregnant with #2 so we'll see... I am very surgery adverse so I waited until I was suuper disabled from it until I considered it. I think bracing it earlier might have helped. It's all very mysterious how it resolved! She was a boob monster and even after she night weaned she nursed a decent amount during the day so I definitely didn't go cold turkey. Get a brace to at least wear at night! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-2660834 Fri, 02 Dec 2016 17:25:02 +0000 agold 2660834@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sunny: Ha! I think i would make time if I knew I could get a hand massage out of it! :silly: Interesting that you went during maternity leave. I'm just now figuring out that I have this extreme hand pain and I'm already back at work this week! Darn it. </p> <p>@MenagerieMama: OMG! You had a surgery scheduled? I am so sad that this hand pain is something that is as serious as needing therapy or even surgery. Thats great to hear that your pain lessened when you started weaning your baby. Once you fully weaned, did the pain go away forever? Please give me hope! Although, I do plan to nurse my baby until 12 months, and she's only 3.5 months right now!</p> <p>@jaguar: Good to know that your pain went away. When did you start getting the cortisone injections? And how often did you get them? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-2660823 Fri, 02 Dec 2016 17:08:05 +0000 jaguar 2660823@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@agold: I got it after Georgia, and am starting to have flare ups now with Claire. Overuse of repetitive actions - holding, nursing, nappies, etc. Splinting and cortisone injections were the only options for me back then - it went away once she started walking and I wasn't carrying her constantly! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-2660761 Fri, 02 Dec 2016 14:22:13 +0000 MenagerieMama 2660761@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had it terribly when LO was about 6-14 mo. It worsened so that by 10 mo I was wearing a thumb spica wrist brace 24/7, started off with it at night. I had a steroid injection at 11 mo and had complete relief but then the pain returned a month later. I had the surgery scheduled but I night weaned LO and my pain miraculously resolved. I didn't fully wean until 18 mo. I'm not sure if there was a true connection but I was so happy it resolved without surgery - I literally cancelled it that week. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-2660737 Fri, 02 Dec 2016 13:33:20 +0000 sunny 2660737@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@agold: I went to probably 2 months of weekly physical therapy when I was on mat leave. I think if I was constrained by time/finances I could have asked them to teach me the exercises and gone fewer times. I did think the treatment was helpful though. They did massage and ultrasound heat therapy for me. I mostly wore the wrist splint at night. My doctor only did the diagnosis and didn't give me any handouts on exercises. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-2660719 Fri, 02 Dec 2016 13:02:36 +0000 agold 2660719@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bluestriped bee: @sunny: I'm just now seeing these responses. OMG. Wrist splints and physical therapy? I just know I won't do physical therapy and probably not the wrist splints. But its getting worse. Luckily only in my right hand. I'm hoping it will go away at some point. Or maybe I can get a cortisone shot after I'm done breast feeding. What a pain this is, right? </p> <p>@sunny: Did you have to go to actual physical therapy appointments, or did your doctor give you a piece of paper with a description of some exercises to do it? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-2656109 Tue, 22 Nov 2016 16:56:41 +0000 sunny 2656109@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@agold: mine went away with physical therapy and wearing a splint to keep it immobilized. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-2655885 Tue, 22 Nov 2016 12:29:23 +0000 BSB 2655885@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I started getting it in Feb of this year about 6 months after the twins were born. Around May it got really bad. Went to the dr and they gave me a wrist splint and told me to take advil. It was still very painful throughout the summer. It started to get better about 1-2 months ago. I don't have to wear the wrist brace anymore. Every now and then it will hurt when I lift something heavy with my right wrist. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-2655877 Tue, 22 Nov 2016 12:19:20 +0000 mrsjd 2655877@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm having pain and stiffness in my hands not my wrists, so a little different but it definitely started happening about a month after LO was born. Ugh. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-2655833 Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:47:25 +0000 agold 2655833@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Reviving this old thread. After a quick google search, I realized that I have De Quervain’s syndrome. Sucks. Only in my right, at least. Anyone else have it? I hope it goes away at some point. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-362061 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:25:55 +0000 sunny 362061@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have this right now... it's so painful! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-359301 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:14:40 +0000 littleveesmommy 359301@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had this and it was horrible! I had pain in my left wrist during pregnancy and after LO was born I didn't feel it anymore so I thought I was home free. Well, I forgot I was taking Tylenol for my c-section pain for 2-3 weeks so once I stopped, my pain was back but in my RIGHT wrist. It switched hands! I think the pain finally went away around 6 month pp. hope it goes away sooner for you. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-359296 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:02:25 +0000 autumnlove 359296@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@duckduckkristen: My wrist pain went away at 7 months PP! I hope your symptoms disappear soon! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-359215 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:14:29 +0000 singingbee 359215@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@duckduckkristen: I looked some up exercises and they helped. In August, mine finally went away. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-359158 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:25:10 +0000 duckduckkristen 359158@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO is almost 6 months and I still have pain in my wrist! My primary care doctor just told me to take NSAIDs and that physical therapy wasn't necessary. She basically just googled it though, so I'm kind of annoyed. I also have no clue how much Advil I can take while BFing and she didn't seem to care. DH has a friend who is an orthopedic surgeon and he said the next step would be steroid shots, but I'm not in quite enough pain to go that way. </p> <p>I wear thumb stabilizing wrist braces and take one or two Advil a day. I think I really need a couple weeks of not having to hold LO! </p> <p>I'm thinking maybe physical therapy? Does anyone know of any exercises I can do? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-206004 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 01:23:43 +0000 pastemoo 206004@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@duckduckkristen: I work for a surgeon, so we pretty much saw worst case scenarios. I highly recommend occupational therapy or physical therapy--it helped all of our patients. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-205973 Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:34:52 +0000 junebuglim 205973@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Jennimac: you lean on your knee with your arm parallel to your leg (thumb up) while holding a weight - she had me start with a 3 pounder but said to start with a water bottle if it was too much. and then to slowly turn my hand downwards just at the wrist. But to not put strain on my wrist when bringing it back up but rather use my other hand to help it... does that make sense?</p> <p>I feel like I should put a disclaimer about how this passed on medical advice and should be taken with a grain of salt.. especially with the current state of my fleeting memory..haha :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-205964 Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:25:09 +0000 BeachMama 205964@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Physical therapy can really help with De Quervain's. I've seen several patients with it and they usually get better. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-205926 Thu, 28 Jun 2012 22:34:17 +0000 singingbee 205926@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@junebuglim: Ooohh!! I want to know some of those exercises! I know that if mine is this bad without a baby to carry, then it will probably be worse when I'm picking up a baby. I think part of my prob was the fact that the nurse dug around trying to get the iv in. The other side (that actually worked) doesn't hurt at all. So, I think mine is a combination of that and the fact that I went back to normal schedule with no hesistation and lifted/carried whatever. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-205541 Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:43:44 +0000 junebuglim 205541@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have this too..:(.. On both wrists.. It started during my pregnancy and has continued post-partum. I've used the thumb stabilizing wrist braces but I kept taking them off when I would feed babies, wash my hands etc. My physical therapist cousin just taught me exercises to strengthen the area -I hope they'll help! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-205452 Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:19:39 +0000 lemondrop 205452@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@duckduckkristen: ha! I was supposed to even during pregnancy for carpal tunnel, but I kept tearing them off in the middle of the night, so I gave up. Call me Michael Jackson, I'm bad!</p> <p>Basically if it hurt, I used that as a signal to stop what I was doing and go about it differently. I started modifying how I held the baby so it didn't hurt as much. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-205437 Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:16:13 +0000 duckduckkristen 205437@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@pastemoo: i really hope it doesn't come to surgery! I rested my wrists for most of today and they are feeling better.</p> <p>@lemondrop: Good to know yours got better! Did you have to wear wrist/thumb braces? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-205104 Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:16:50 +0000 lemondrop 205104@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes- but it is almost completely gone at nearly 6 months pp. I only feel it first thing in the morning now. I used to have it very bad pretty much all the time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/de-quervain%e2%80%99s-tendonitis#post-204929 Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:34:43 +0000 pastemoo 204929@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The orthopaedic surgeon I work for allows women 1 year of healing before recommending surgery. People can heal quickly, or take the whole year and still not feel better.<br /> (Same timescale for post partum De Quervain's and carpal tunnel in his office) </p>