Has anyone had trigger finger surgery recently? My finger is quite painful . I had a steroid injection, which helped for a few days, but now I am back where I started. I fortunately didn’t have very much in the way of high blood sugars with the injection. In fact, after the first two days, my total daily dose of insulin went down about 30%. I think this might be because of decreased inflammation? Anyway, I am considering the surgery but a quick search of Dr. Google says recovery might be weeks. I don’t think I could tolerate that. Thanks
I’ve had trigger finger for years. I just straighten the finger out and go on with life. But maybe my pain threshold is different from yours. Everyone is different.
My first trigger finger I got the acupuncturist to look at it within a few weeks of getting it and it went completely away with about 3 treatments. The second one I kept forgetting to say something to him and I wasn’t seeing him as often so it ended up quite painful. But I finally remembered and it took a few treatments to start improving and a few months to go away. No steroid shots and no surgery was needed, The acupuncturist was great. The acupuncturist I saw though had years of school, experience and had a doctorate degree in it. There can be a huge difference in acupuncturists, some aren’t so good and some states don’t require much to become one. I was already seeing him for back issues so he just treated my fingers at the same time. He did show me how massaging the muscles under the finger helped improve it.
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I had several trigger fingers, but think they were all treated with steroid injections. Had surgery for carpal tunnel.
But this was over 30 years ago, before I had pump and seeing endo instead of primary/ped MD for care. Was started on single injection Lente for first ~20 years, then NPH+Reg injections with poor control by todays standards.
But with improved A1Cs, no additional trigger fingers. But was pretty weird feeling when I had them.
T1 for 59 years, much of that time with high BGL’s, pumping 33 years. I had trigger fingers several years ago. Every finger and both thumbs (in both joints of each thumb), bilateral carpal tunnel, and Dupuytren’s contracture in one hand. I tried cortisone injections in the first one or two that occurred, but they were totally ineffective for me, so thereafter I had surgery on all of them, one at a time as they occurred over a period of about 5 years. This meant I had 15 hand surgeries in this time. I had an extremely good specialist hand surgeon, who did all my operations under local anaesthetic, as a day case, with about 10 days for dressing removal. Recovery and healing were a breeze with all of them. Now, about 20 years later, apart from small scars, my hands are straight and flexible with no signs or symptoms of the original problems. Good luck.
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I’ve also had several trigger finger surgeries. It’s relatively easy, as surgeries go. Not much pain afterwards, and quick recovery.
I have dupuytrens and it extends into my fingers. But it doesn’t cause any issues with motion or flexibility. I spoke to a surgeon who told me that the healing would cause new contractures, u less I had all the fascia removed and that would t be done unless there was no other hope.
My issues are not bad and my hand lays flat on the table top test.
I’m really just looking forward to possible progression, but I wonder what was the surgery you got.? What did he do or remove from your hand.
I know some people use needle therapy and others have used xiaflex. I’m just hoping there will be some better treatment if and when I need it.