Are you experiencing the symptoms of carpel tunnel?
People suffering from Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) develop progressively increasing finger stiffness in the morning, their grip weakens, and they experience crippling pain in their hands and wrists. CTS is usually thought to be the result from long-term repetitive motion of the hands and wrists. A few years back carpal tunnel was most often seen in factory workers, secretaries, and supermarket cashiers whose jobs required them to repeat the same hand and wrist motion hundreds of times each day. However with the widespread use of personal computers, the incidence of carpal tunnel has spread across all professions. Splinting, rest, anti-inflammatory drugs and frequently surgery are the treatments most often recommended by conventional physicians for CTS. However although these treatments relieve the pressure and may eliminate the symptoms of CTS, they do not treat the cause of carpal tunnel. Repetitive motion is not the only culprit when it comes to CTS. Women who are either pregnant or taking oral contraceptives, and also diabetics all have a higher than average incidence of CTS. All three groups also have an increased requirement for vitamin B6. It was this connection, made more than 20 years ago, that led John Ellis, M.D., of Mount Pleasant, Texas, to conduct several well controlled studies to show that severe B-6 deficiency causes CTS. Repetitive movement, however, may aggravate the condition. Vitamin B6 is now the most frequently used and well-known nutritional treatment for CTS. However, vitamin B-6 is not an overnight cure. Studies show that CTS will improve after taking 100mg of B6 twice each day for two to three months. As people are rarely deficient in only one nutrient, a combination of B-2 and B-6 has been found to be the most effective. Taking 50 mg of B-2 each day has been found to be an effective dose.
Symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome are: the tingling or numbness of the thumb, index, middle or ring fingers, awakened by pain during the night, not just once but several times. Shaking the arm brings the feeling back into the hand and arm. As time go by and leaving CTS untreated gradually worsens and then the pain will extend up to the elbow and shoulder creating a burning, painful sensation.
I personally have suffered from carpal tunnel, it was not a pretty picture! I suffered with it in both hands. Awakened night after night 3 sometimes 4 times a night. I`d get up and walk the floor shaking my arms to get the feeling back, only to go back to sleep to be awakened again. I had the surgery done, what a difference!! But I was told by the physion by doing the same the same repetitive work, I would experience the CTS again. It`s been 6 years later and I am now experiencing it all over again. Thanks to being able to recognize the symptoms I am able to combat the pain with the vitamin B-6 and also magnetic therapy (Please read my own testimonial of magnetic therapy). Both of these will help relieve the carpel tunnel.