@lioness Have you had your thumb evaluated?

I had the bone on bone arthritis and I also think before I had the arthroplasty tightrope surgery that I also had trigger thumb and not it being a result of the arthroplasty, but did not notice the catching before surgery. So I had two different surgeries.

Do you think you might have trigger thumb along with arthritis?

I think actually the trigger thumb was giving me the most pain. With trigger fingers I have it has just been catching feeling.. and not being able to open the fingers.. but not pain. After the trigger thumb surgery the pain went down tremendously.

I honestly think I should have gone to a different surgeon. I now have some trouble with the tendon that runs from thumb to wrist and beyond. My surgeon seems to think that will go away in time.. meanwhile she said in a sarcastic tone “do you think you could put some arthritic cream like Ben Gay on it”. I told her I was already doing that and using heat because it seems to respond better to heat than ice.

I keep getting emails wanting me to review her, the surgeon.. on facebook. I'm not sure what to say yet.

Zee Gee