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I had pain and weakness in my right wrist for years, and also had many rounds of misdiagnosis. It turned out to be a benign tumour. Surgery was my answer, but

I had pain and weakness in my right wrist for years, and also had many rounds of misdiagnosis. It turned out to be a benign tumour. Surgery was my answer, but it's only a partial one. It's a soft tissue tumour, the surgeon didn't expect to get all of it, and it's growing back now. It's been about seven years, and I expect I'll need surgery again within seven more years to be able to do simple tasks like lift objects with that hand still. Sometimes it's not diet - but it's like the old climate change joke. What if I switched to a better diet and a healthier lifestyle, for no good reason?

g0ggs 6y ago
Would this happen to be a schwannoma? If so, this was the case for me as well. Took a long time and a lot of sleepless nights before an mri found it.
- codebje 6y ago
  Hemangioma in my case. I had an MRI but in the end it was a surgeon with the right experience looking at an earlier ultrasound that diagnosed it. I had trouble believing he'd diagnosed it when he glanced at the ultrasound and calmly said what it was. Given I'd had medical practitioners send me for neurological studies to check it wasn't all in my head, suggest fusing my wrist to stop the pain, tell me there was nothing visible in X-ray, MRI, or the same ultrasound report the surgeon diagnosed me from... It seemed unlikely anyone could do an apparently simple diagnosis like that.