Hi,

You posted in February that your wife had had continuing wrist
problems long after carpal tunnel surgery. I'm wondering whether she's
had any improvement now.

I ask because at that time I myself was two months post-carpal
tunnel surgery and I too was experiencing very painful and
range-of-motion-limiting wrist problems: the surgery seemed to have
simply replaced the carpal tunnel pains with new and different ones.

When I talked with the surgeon about this he told me that I had
arthritis in the wrist and I simply should expect not to be able
to do certain things that I had never had trouble with before.

Well now I am about 6 months past the surgery: the pain is gone; the
range of motion is back so strongly that I can now twist open jars
that I hadn't been able to handle before I started having carpal
tunnel symptoms; the ongoing tingling and numbness that he had
predicted [because I waited so long that the nerve was essentially
useless] never developed. I'm hoping that your wife has had the same
experience.

                  --thelma