Some here will probably look at this a good thing, but today my hands are so bad, typing is a real problem. What are some remedies?
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Hand Cramps!
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Yendor357
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Bananas, water and stretching.
If you do not drink a lot of fluids, start. You may be dehydrated
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I agree with Pete, stay hydrated. I've also heard that drinking cherry juice helps to prevent them.
For immediate relief, try some pickle juice.
For immediate relief, try some pickle juice.
Theraband Hand Exercisor
Buy a Theraband Hand Exercisor...it is a small rubber ball that you just squeeze in your palm...it strengthens your hands and fingers and helps relieve hand cramps and arthritis...it really helped me after I broke my hand and with the arthritis in my hands...hope it helps you...Roger
Buy a Theraband Hand Exercisor...it is a small rubber ball that you just squeeze in your palm...it strengthens your hands and fingers and helps relieve hand cramps and arthritis...it really helped me after I broke my hand and with the arthritis in my hands...hope it helps you...Roger
Pickles or pickle juice may help with any type of cramps. At least it seems to for me.
I get hand cramps sometimes from using hand tools. If that's the case you might want to consider using more electric tools to avoid the pain.
I get hand cramps sometimes from using hand tools. If that's the case you might want to consider using more electric tools to avoid the pain.
JET4
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Pickle juice, bananas, and water should help.
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Fluids are good, ordered some mag/potassium supplements.
To prevent cramping my old wrestling coach recommended potassium, calcium and sodium. Bananas, milk and salt this was before Gatorade drinks. Along with that try making a fist and quickly flinging your fingers to an outstretched position 10-15 times a day. Do this in 5 group intervals. Follow up with stretching your fingers to the back as far as possible.
Typical causes of hand cramps include dehydration, electrolyte imbalance or overuse, like typing too much. Drink some Gatorade or similar and refrain from overuse, no typing or Bay Watch reruns, etc.
I have a tremor in my right hand that was getting worse; I couldn't keep food on a fork. I started doing (believe it or not) push-ups for another reason - the hand tremor is almost gone. I also filled a dish detergent bottle with clean sand and do a few curls while in my recliner watching TV or cruising the forum. Dumbbells require you to close your hand too tightly. A few pushups and a few curls might help - might not. There're no drugs involved.
It helps that my wife is a retired occupational therapy assistant.
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If yesterday was a higher sugar consumption day for you, then cut back on the sugary food and beverage choices.
I've heard of the magnesium supplements and/or pickle juice. One small warning about the pickle juice: make sure the pickles are all gone before you drink out of the jar. A "friend" told me about getting whacked in the eye with a rogue pickle... the juice burns your eyes and the whacking pickle doesn't feel all that good...I heard.
You aren't suggesting cutting back on beer for a whole day, are you? Ya know, there are a lot of good vitamins in beer...
My hands are hurting bad after this winter, maybe snow shoveling. Have a ball I squeeze as mentioned by Roger in post 5, seems to help some. Thinking of messaging my primary doctor for some therapy sessions so they evaluate ME and what could help my hands.
Won’t cure it but help relieve some pain, Larry
Won’t cure it but help relieve some pain, Larry
After I get up and get going, I’m usually ok, but sometimes I wake up with numbing in both hands and pins and needles. I’m a back sleeper, so it’s not from cut off circulation, like if I slept on my arm. I’m starting to think I may have the beginnings of carpel tunnel syndrome.
A couple of years ago I was working at our Denver branch doing some pipe fitting of copper refrigerant lines, a lot of cutting with a tubing cutter and sanding the ends with sand cloth. Later in the day, my hands just completely cramped up to the point I had to straighten my fingers out. Never happened before or since to that extent. I don’t know if it was the elevation, but that’s the only thing that was different, and I was staying well hydrated.
A couple of years ago I was working at our Denver branch doing some pipe fitting of copper refrigerant lines, a lot of cutting with a tubing cutter and sanding the ends with sand cloth. Later in the day, my hands just completely cramped up to the point I had to straighten my fingers out. Never happened before or since to that extent. I don’t know if it was the elevation, but that’s the only thing that was different, and I was staying well hydrated.
Oldengineer
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I suffer from hand cramps and general pain. My doctor says that there isn’t much to do as it’s a free benefit for old age. Some things that help are heat, compression, and Voltaren cream. I’m especially careful when handling things that I don’t want to drop. I’ve used the ball, putty, and exercise putty with marginal short term results. Shooting model 29’s is not much fun anymore.
I certainly don't know, but the rumors that I believe are that you should stay hydrated and have reasonable electrolyte intake, particularly magnesium. As a prediabetic, it seemed to me that straightening out that problem almost completely eliminated my leg cramps, but that may have just been a subset of the hydration prescription.
