As I sit here typing to you my elbows feel like they are on fire and my fingers and thumbs are also triggered today. Perhaps I exaggerate a little as the pain from RSI is more like a small animal gnawing at your joints, rather than a brick-fell-on-foot pain. You just don't want to work anymore at the computer and whatsmore the pain hangs around in the background even after the computing stops. When I was doing my PhD I used to get a four pack on the way home so I could numb-out.
These days when things flare up its all about trying to get the inflammation down quickly so I can get back to work. I get ice from the supermarket and fill a plant trough with water and ice so I can lay out my arm in that, submerged and elbows unbent. At this point I am in pj's and teeth are brushed as I don't want to use my arms at all once they are iced - straight to bed.
You don't mention localised applications or perhaps I missed it, but I use these as well as global approaches. For example cortinon directly onto thumbs and elbows, DHT or T dissolved in tocovit directly rubbed on is quite powerful. I have a jam jar of water in which is dissolved many asprins for hand dipping to reduce inflamation. Globally, sometimes 20mg of DHT powder aurally before bed seems to reset the arms for the next day.
PS when using androgens I often get depeleted of biotin B7 which feels terrible, who would have thought? Took me ages to figure this out.
These days when things flare up its all about trying to get the inflammation down quickly so I can get back to work. I get ice from the supermarket and fill a plant trough with water and ice so I can lay out my arm in that, submerged and elbows unbent. At this point I am in pj's and teeth are brushed as I don't want to use my arms at all once they are iced - straight to bed.
You don't mention localised applications or perhaps I missed it, but I use these as well as global approaches. For example cortinon directly onto thumbs and elbows, DHT or T dissolved in tocovit directly rubbed on is quite powerful. I have a jam jar of water in which is dissolved many asprins for hand dipping to reduce inflamation. Globally, sometimes 20mg of DHT powder aurally before bed seems to reset the arms for the next day.
PS when using androgens I often get depeleted of biotin B7 which feels terrible, who would have thought? Took me ages to figure this out.