I developed arthritis 6 years ago shortly after retiring at 65. The best thing I have done was a year ago when I went on a low carb diet. Every month since then has seen an reduction in stiffness and now I have very little pain in my hands and fingers. The fewer carbs I eat, the better things become.
I have been on a low carb and super healthy vegetarian diet for the past 20 years but it does not spare me from arthritis unfortunately. I do drink wine regulary and wonder if that is the culprit...
@@saskia959 How do you do a low carb vegetarian diet? That sounds very difficult to achieve. And yes, I find wine - especially red - affects my finger arthritis. It's mostly disappeared on a carnivore diet though, as my wine consumption has dropped dramatically at the same time.
@@sarahsovereign4522 it took cutting out all plant food for me to get there. I now eat a carnivore diet and have no cravings for sweet foods (or any other food).
Thank you for the helpful information on osteoarthritis. Very well presented and easy to understand. (I love your accent as well, bless your heart.) Osteoarthritis runs in my father's family but only one of my aunts had it in her hands so bad that they were finally incapacitated. She was a compulsively and consistently hard worker at everything she did (that ran in my father's family as well) and I think a bit of rest and care might have kept it from getting so bad.
Thank you for the video and knowledge that you convey to the listener. :) Was there any part of the video that tackles the source of the problem rather than symptom? It is not clear to me if there is anything in the video that is used to work on the source of the problem.
This was a very helpful video as I search for what is happening to my hands. I will show my MD my swollen middle finger that his hard at the top on the part that is hitting all the buttons because my index finger is so arthritic. Hopefully she will offer me more tips, refer me to a specialist, or agree with my notes from your video and another video by Dr. Nabil Ebraheim that I found helpful in my research today to continue self-healing.
I have also watched Dr. Nabil Ebraheim's video here on TH-cam: "Osteoarthritis of the Fingers Herberden's Nodes - Everything You Need to Know." 3 30 min video, in which I learned more about arthritis than I had elsewhere abt Osteoarthritis in the hands.. Very grateful he took the time to post his video about it. Highly recommend!
I’m so stressed I’m only 28 and I believe I have this condition because I am a professional oil painter and use my right hand for billions of strokes of painting… I have the rest of my life to go and I hope that I can heal from this and that it won’t affect my painting
I’m a hobby painter and I hear you… it helps to use brushes with rubber grips (or add your own pencil grips - look for them in school supply stores) Hope that helps!
35 here. I got it last year the 4th of November and been with this constant pain,weakness, and tingling in both hands for a year. I have degenration changes of the cmc joint and osteoartheritis in my finger and thumb from rsi movements. Like you I'm stuck like.this. not even 4 injections into my wrists and base of thumbs helped. Its very hard to cope with. I.hope you find something that can help.you. all the best
@@starscream5813 I'm 37 and have this throughout all my fingers. I've had to give up my job as a nail tech. I'm absolutely gutted at the thought of losing the use and aesthetics of my hands. I have 4 children to look after too. I hope you've found some relief xx
I was told I’d be better of with rheumatoid arthritis because it’s treatable… I have severe osteoarthritis in both hands and without an anti inflammatory my hands are useless.. no grip, burning pain in all my knuckles and all joints of my hands. I can not clap or snap my fingers to save my life. I can bare it with my medicine, still is painful, but not like when I have none… it’s horrible
i get these hard lumps on both hands on my knuckles mainly and my hands hurt most days 24/7 tingly and numbing washing my hands in cold water does feel good
Here in Alvin Texas we had an elderly lady( now deceased) that owned a large family vegetable farm and while working on a tractor was attacked by a large swarm of Africanized " killer bees" She was hospitalized as a result of over 100 stings. After her recovery, she claimed her arthritis was cured. ( I don't recall if any of her symptoms returned at a later date".
Psoriatic arthritis very often has what they call “sausage finger” ….the ones I’ve seen didn’t look that swollen but definitely had inflammation and pain… I’d see a rheumatologist if you haven’t already done so
I've noticed stiffness in my right hand the last couple of months and when I move my thumb in and out the joint pops, I can't put much weight in my hand and it hurts all the time.... What kind of a doctor should I seek?
i do not know in what health system you are, here in Australia you get a referral from your treating doctor, be it your GP or as in my case a rheumatologist. The specialistI was referred to was a plastic hand specialist. Your poping in and out of your thumb is most probably a triger finger of your joint where the tendon is thickened and is trapped in the channel it sits in. When you bend it it gets trapped on one side of the channel then you force it to open so it has to get back to the original position. It is a bit like a thread that develops a knot and you try to force it to go through the material. I had my ring trigger finger operated on after 15 years of clicking. At the end I had to straighten it with the other hand. It is a 15 min procedure, not very pleasant as it is in a local anaesthetic but hey, it bends and staightens on its own now. Good luck with your search.
You know it's weird but I'm a man I am only 34 and I have osteoarthritis throughout my hands in all my finger/ hand joints they all get swore stiff with swelling in all joints especially in the morning, and it is in all joints in both my hands. Sometimes even my feet I also was diagnosed with sciatica 2 years ago I thought I pulled something but I guess it was just sciatica since that's what they told me so my right leg/thigh is always numb and hurts to scratch along with normal sciatica shooting sharp pain from my head to my feet on the right side, which I believe is probably due to the osteoarthritis throught my hands and spine/ vertebra, and I also have bone spurs in both feet at the heels, so ya work sucks especially since I'm only 35 and I work in a aluminum fab/ weld shop running saws and sometimes welding when hands get bad, so I use my swore hands everyday lol. And i have to be able to use my hands 10hrs a day 6 days a week minimum lol. And I will tell ya it is super annoying and really sucks pushing the buttons on my saw all day with my swore joints in my thumbs lol, usually I splint them so they don't hurt as bad. but ya no one in my family has ever been diagnosed with osteoarthritis, although I have 1 far relative that had recurring bone spurs he had to get removed every few years as he got older around 55. I was also diagnosed with scoliosis as a child and then when I went to the back doctor about 8-10 years ago they said I had stress fractures throughout my spine which I believe now was actually osteoarthritis or caused by it anyway. And is probably what causes my sciatica/ the numbness and tingling throughout my back and right leg so numb it hurts. And I cut my finger like a week ago from a fight with a table saw I guess you could say lol. But it cut through about half my pinky finger starting from the outside tip of my pinky finger by the corner of my nail diagonally inward ending behind my pinky nail bed smack in the center of my finger nail on my left hand, luckily it did not get my nail bed, but I did not feel anything after it got cut just numbness like my leg lol soon everything will be numb, anyways After I got it stiched back together it took 5 stitches and they thought it was weird since I couldn't feel it at all and it got both arteries in my pinky and I believe my nerve hince the numbing and no feeling, even when being stiched, and having laceration cleaned and spread apart and the doc said it was bad but they didn't even give me an x-ray which I thought was weird since my finger was hanging 90° degrees and was bleeding horribly and took multiple docs to stop bleeding after the stiched since I lost so much blood out of my tiny finger lol. But the doc had an intern that needed some practice so he did the stitching and him and the doc were not sure if the stitches would hold my finger together and worried about wether it would fuse back together and heal, but it definally started to heal and fuse back together fast almost healed in 2 weeks, but after 2 weeks and me telling the ER docs and then my regular family doc repeatedly that I still had no feeling only tingling in my finger along with the only thing that hurt was my bone if I pushed on or hid my pinky finger bone that would shoot pain up my arm so i kept telling them I thought it was broke and after 2 weeks he gave me an x-ray revealing a avulsion fracture along the radial aspect of the base of the proximal phalanx. That's what the results say anyway lol. I have to back to see doc tomorrow. But the results also say, Small chronic ossicles are osteophytes are noted at the base of the distal phalanx.which I already knew I had in my back but I guess that explains my hand / finger joint swelling stiffness and soreness and all my finger joints hurt what I mean by that are the DIP ,PIP and Mip joints and they say it's even more rare to have it in my MID joints. And all my joints have always cracked alot. And I look super healthy but I guess my joints and bones tell a different story, lol it is just all hidden on the inside of my body I guess. Everyone always says oh your still young and healthy looking you will be fine lol but I bet they would say different if they had the same problems and still working 60-70hrs a week lol
I am so sorry, I will pray for you. I noticed you used a lot of lol's but I know you don't really feel like laughing. I am 75. I broke my hip and was in a wheel chair for months, then used a rollator and finally a four legged cane. Both of my hips and legs ache. The joints in my hand cramp like Charlie horses and I want to scream or cry. Your story makes me cry cause I think to a lesser degree I can feel your pain. It's difficult living with it because you really can't share what you are feeling with others, we know we will loose friends, because they can not help us and they start feeling uncomfortable because they can't, soon they are avoiding. So I do not know you, will never meet. Not even sure you will ever read this. But I will pray God will lift your pain and heal your body.
Thanks for your helpful video. My pointer finger is always swollen. But sleeping is worst. It swells up really bad. Keeps me awake. Once I get up it starts to go down. How is that if not being used.
i was born with a genectic disorder,meant my tendons were shorter and my hands didant open,it says in my medical notes they thought i had "still deases at age7,anyway ive had pain since never,,i am age59 now and i have never put my hands flat on the ground,,but since i went mad on the beatles age11,by age12 i started a band on bass,,,playing 2-12 hours a day opened my left hand which was the worst (being right handed) to this day my main right hand joints are stuck half open and my fingers are twisted to the side,,,so playing music really helps,,shame i did not learn piano as thats better for both hands.... i was in control of my pain killers only getting them on repete 3x a year,,but they took them off me and i get no help with pain at all now,,all i can say is ill be happy to die any time..and with my hands im prof anyone could play music ..stu
SO WHAT ABOUT THE PAIN😢 If you go to the doctor, they say take over the counter painkillers. And thats it. Which are absolutely useless. Your abandoned to put up with it.
You have my maximum respect Dr igho, and I will never forget the day I come across your channel on youtube, you are my hero thank you for helping me with your herbal medication that cured me naturally , God bless you.
I used my hands a lot, pianists, crafts, writing and at age 36 ny finger hurt so much I thought it was broken. No, Doc, says, you have OA. Well i am now 86. When i hear someone make fun of Trump drinking using both hands, i find it very upsetting. I cannot make fists. Thank God my thumbs are ok. I had protherapy treatments, 120 injections in both hands. Was bath. Everything she covered except steroids. They in crease blòd sugar. I wish i could get injections of sarapin. No side effects. My knees are fine. Lower back not great but was in two rear end auto accidents. I can't stand compression gloves. I am experimenting with kinesiology tape at night. It keeps warmth and mild compression. I do have psychological problems because i had great skillful creative hands. I have lived with this half a century. It burns me when i hear go to www.blah blah because using a key board is so difficult. So easy to make mistakes. Listen to this lady and do all you can do to fight to keep your agility and strength of you hands. Use a stylus to punch buttons on microwaves etc. Use your knuckle.
I developed arthritis 6 years ago shortly after retiring at 65. The best thing I have done was a year ago when I went on a low carb diet. Every month since then has seen an reduction in stiffness and now I have very little pain in my hands and fingers. The fewer carbs I eat, the better things become.
Thank you. I will try this.
I have been on a low carb and super healthy vegetarian diet for the past 20 years but it does not spare me from arthritis unfortunately. I do drink wine regulary and wonder if that is the culprit...
@@saskia959 How do you do a low carb vegetarian diet? That sounds very difficult to achieve. And yes, I find wine - especially red - affects my finger arthritis. It's mostly disappeared on a carnivore diet though, as my wine consumption has dropped dramatically at the same time.
Same, but it is remarkably difficult to permanently break the cycle of a sweet treat to comfort the mind when the hands hurt.
@@sarahsovereign4522 it took cutting out all plant food for me to get there. I now eat a carnivore diet and have no cravings for sweet foods (or any other food).
Thank you for the helpful information on osteoarthritis. Very well presented and easy to understand. (I love your accent as well, bless your heart.) Osteoarthritis runs in my father's family but only one of my aunts had it in her hands so bad that they were finally incapacitated. She was a compulsively and consistently hard worker at everything she did (that ran in my father's family as well) and I think a bit of rest and care might have kept it from getting so bad.
Thank you for the video and knowledge that you convey to the listener. :) Was there any part of the video that tackles the source of the problem rather than symptom? It is not clear to me if there is anything in the video that is used to work on the source of the problem.
This was a very helpful video as I search for what is happening to my hands. I will show my MD my swollen middle finger that his hard at the top on the part that is hitting all the buttons because my index finger is so arthritic. Hopefully she will offer me more tips, refer me to a specialist, or agree with my notes from your video and another video by Dr. Nabil Ebraheim that I found helpful in my research today to continue self-healing.
I have also watched Dr. Nabil Ebraheim's video here on TH-cam: "Osteoarthritis of the Fingers Herberden's Nodes - Everything You Need to Know." 3 30 min video, in which I learned more about arthritis than I had elsewhere abt Osteoarthritis in the hands.. Very grateful he took the time to post his video about it. Highly recommend!
A really useful video; thanks Paula and the OT team at TUH.
Very support and gain confidence Video , Thank you so much 😊 🙏🏼👍🏻💖
A very useful video. Thanks to Paula & team.Kay
Hi Paula, loved your video. Thanks for information.
I’m so stressed I’m only 28 and I believe I have this condition because I am a professional oil painter and use my right hand for billions of strokes of painting… I have the rest of my life to go and I hope that I can heal from this and that it won’t affect my painting
It could be tendinitis or other things. Hope you are doing well.
I’m a hobby painter and I hear you… it helps to use brushes with rubber grips (or add your own pencil grips - look for them in school supply stores) Hope that helps!
Useful information here, Thankyou.
Very informative. Thankyou!
So, in essence, I’m stuck with this? I’m only 42 and I can’t bend my pointer finger. Rheumatoid arthritis has decent meds. This sucks
35 here. I got it last year the 4th of November and been with this constant pain,weakness, and tingling in both hands for a year. I have degenration changes of the cmc joint and osteoartheritis in my finger and thumb from rsi movements. Like you I'm stuck like.this. not even 4 injections into my wrists and base of thumbs helped. Its very hard to cope with. I.hope you find something that can help.you. all the best
I’m only 28 and I am panicking because I think I have this too.. it sucks
@@starscream5813 I'm 37 and have this throughout all my fingers. I've had to give up my job as a nail tech. I'm absolutely gutted at the thought of losing the use and aesthetics of my hands. I have 4 children to look after too. I hope you've found some relief xx
I was told I’d be better of with rheumatoid arthritis because it’s treatable… I have severe osteoarthritis in both hands and without an anti inflammatory my hands are useless.. no grip, burning pain in all my knuckles and all joints of my hands. I can not clap or snap my fingers to save my life. I can bare it with my medicine, still is painful, but not like when I have none… it’s horrible
I have just found your site. Your video is most helpful. I will most certainly look up the suggested website. Sincere thanks from South Africa
i get these hard lumps on both hands on my knuckles mainly and my hands hurt most days 24/7 tingly and numbing washing my hands in cold water does feel good
Thank you, very helpful information 🥰
useful video, thank you for all the info, very helpful
Here in Alvin Texas we had an elderly lady( now deceased) that owned a large family vegetable farm and while working on a tractor was attacked by a large swarm of Africanized " killer bees" She was hospitalized as a result of over 100 stings. After her recovery, she claimed her arthritis was cured. ( I don't recall if any of her symptoms returned at a later date".
I bet the treatment she received in the hospital for inflammation of the stings helped her arthritis inflammation
In my case, I have arthritis in my right index finger. Acupuncture treatments helped with pain and stiffness.
Psoriatic arthritis very often has what they call “sausage finger” ….the ones I’ve seen didn’t look that swollen but definitely had inflammation and pain… I’d see a rheumatologist if you haven’t already done so
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Very helpfull
I've noticed stiffness in my right hand the last couple of months and when I move my thumb in and out the joint pops, I can't put much weight in my hand and it hurts all the time....
What kind of a doctor should I seek?
i do not know in what health system you are, here in Australia you get a referral from your treating doctor, be it your GP or as in my case a rheumatologist. The specialistI was referred to was a plastic hand specialist.
Your poping in and out of your thumb is most probably a triger finger of your joint where the tendon is thickened and is trapped in the channel it sits in. When you bend it it gets trapped on one side of the channel then you force it to open so it has to get back to the original position. It is a bit like a thread that develops a knot and you try to force it to go through the material. I had my ring trigger finger operated on after 15 years of clicking. At the end I had to straighten it with the other hand. It is a 15 min procedure, not very pleasant as it is in a local anaesthetic but hey, it bends and staightens on its own now. Good luck with your search.
Please can arthritis be cure when surgery is done
You know it's weird but I'm a man I am only 34 and I have osteoarthritis throughout my hands in all my finger/ hand joints they all get swore stiff with swelling in all joints especially in the morning, and it is in all joints in both my hands. Sometimes even my feet I also was diagnosed with sciatica 2 years ago I thought I pulled something but I guess it was just sciatica since that's what they told me so my right leg/thigh is always numb and hurts to scratch along with normal sciatica shooting sharp pain from my head to my feet on the right side, which I believe is probably due to the osteoarthritis throught my hands and spine/ vertebra, and I also have bone spurs in both feet at the heels, so ya work sucks especially since I'm only 35 and I work in a aluminum fab/ weld shop running saws and sometimes welding when hands get bad, so I use my swore hands everyday lol. And i have to be able to use my hands 10hrs a day 6 days a week minimum lol. And I will tell ya it is super annoying and really sucks pushing the buttons on my saw all day with my swore joints in my thumbs lol, usually I splint them so they don't hurt as bad. but ya no one in my family has ever been diagnosed with osteoarthritis, although I have 1 far relative that had recurring bone spurs he had to get removed every few years as he got older around 55. I was also diagnosed with scoliosis as a child and then when I went to the back doctor about 8-10 years ago they said I had stress fractures throughout my spine which I believe now was actually osteoarthritis or caused by it anyway. And is probably what causes my sciatica/ the numbness and tingling throughout my back and right leg so numb it hurts. And I cut my finger like a week ago from a fight with a table saw I guess you could say lol. But it cut through about half my pinky finger starting from the outside tip of my pinky finger by the corner of my nail diagonally inward ending behind my pinky nail bed smack in the center of my finger nail on my left hand, luckily it did not get my nail bed, but I did not feel anything after it got cut just numbness like my leg lol soon everything will be numb, anyways After I got it stiched back together it took 5 stitches and they thought it was weird since I couldn't feel it at all and it got both arteries in my pinky and I believe my nerve hince the numbing and no feeling, even when being stiched, and having laceration cleaned and spread apart and the doc said it was bad but they didn't even give me an x-ray which I thought was weird since my finger was hanging 90° degrees and was bleeding horribly and took multiple docs to stop bleeding after the stiched since I lost so much blood out of my tiny finger lol. But the doc had an intern that needed some practice so he did the stitching and him and the doc were not sure if the stitches would hold my finger together and worried about wether it would fuse back together and heal, but it definally started to heal and fuse back together fast almost healed in 2 weeks, but after 2 weeks and me telling the ER docs and then my regular family doc repeatedly that I still had no feeling only tingling in my finger along with the only thing that hurt was my bone if I pushed on or hid my pinky finger bone that would shoot pain up my arm so i kept telling them I thought it was broke and after 2 weeks he gave me an x-ray revealing a avulsion fracture along the radial aspect of the base of the proximal phalanx. That's what the results say anyway lol. I have to back to see doc tomorrow. But the results also say, Small chronic ossicles are
osteophytes are noted at the base of the distal phalanx.which I already knew I had in my back but I guess that explains my hand / finger joint swelling stiffness and soreness and all my finger joints hurt what I mean by that are the DIP ,PIP and Mip joints and they say it's even more rare to have it in my MID joints. And all my joints have always cracked alot. And I look super healthy but I guess my joints and bones tell a different story, lol it is just all hidden on the inside of my body I guess. Everyone always says oh your still young and healthy looking you will be fine lol but I bet they would say different if they had the same problems and still working 60-70hrs a week lol
I am so sorry, I will pray for you. I noticed you used a lot of lol's but I know you don't really feel like laughing. I am 75. I broke my hip and was in a wheel chair for months, then used a rollator and finally a four legged cane. Both of my hips and legs ache. The joints in my hand cramp like Charlie horses and I want to scream or cry. Your story makes me cry cause I think to a lesser degree I can feel your pain. It's difficult living with it because you really can't share what you are feeling with others, we know we will loose friends, because they can not help us and they start feeling uncomfortable because they can't, soon they are avoiding. So I do not know you, will never meet. Not even sure you will ever read this. But I will pray God will lift your pain and heal your body.
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I have arthritis in both my hands and wrists. The pain drives me crazy
It’s shocking, right? I tore the ligaments in my both my hands recently, if I move them the wrong way it’s excruciating 😢 Sorry you’re suffering too…
I have oa coming in finger in left hand but I am left handed
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What type of doctor should i see for my hands i have ostrop. In both hands
Look up austin goh osteoarthritis on youtube for some decent exercises the meantime also really watch what foods you eat if you dont already
Rheumatology
Thanks for your helpful video. My pointer finger is always swollen. But sleeping is worst. It swells up really bad. Keeps me awake. Once I get up it starts to go down. How is that if not being used.
Try compression gloves they're great. Yours sounds like trigger finger
I have got osteoarthritis all over my body
i was born with a genectic disorder,meant my tendons were shorter and my hands didant open,it says in my medical notes they thought i had "still deases at age7,anyway ive had pain since never,,i am age59 now and i have never put my hands flat on the ground,,but since i went mad on the beatles age11,by age12 i started a band on bass,,,playing 2-12 hours a day opened my left hand which was the worst (being right handed) to this day my main right hand joints are stuck half open and my fingers are twisted to the side,,,so playing music really helps,,shame i did not learn piano as thats better for both hands.... i was in control of my pain killers only getting them on repete 3x a year,,but they took them off me and i get no help with pain at all now,,all i can say is ill be happy to die any time..and with my hands im prof anyone could play music ..stu
Back hip waste joints bone grind
SO WHAT ABOUT THE PAIN😢
If you go to the doctor, they say take over the counter painkillers.
And thats it.
Which are absolutely useless.
Your abandoned to put up with it.
You have my maximum respect Dr igho, and I will never forget the day I come across your channel on youtube, you are my hero thank you for helping me with your herbal medication that cured me naturally , God bless you.
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I used my hands a lot, pianists, crafts, writing and at age 36 ny finger hurt so much I thought it was broken. No, Doc, says, you have OA. Well i am now 86. When i hear someone make fun of Trump drinking using both hands, i find it very upsetting. I cannot make fists. Thank God my thumbs are ok. I had protherapy treatments, 120 injections in both hands. Was bath. Everything she covered except steroids. They in crease blòd sugar. I wish i could get injections of sarapin. No side effects. My knees are fine. Lower back not great but was in two rear end auto accidents. I can't stand compression gloves. I am experimenting with kinesiology tape at night. It keeps warmth and mild compression.
I do have psychological problems because i had great skillful creative hands. I have lived with this half a century. It burns me when i hear go to www.blah blah because using a key board is so difficult. So easy to make mistakes.
Listen to this lady and do all you can do to fight to keep your agility and strength of you hands.
Use a stylus to punch buttons on microwaves etc. Use your knuckle.