Re: lump on top of wrist

"Nomen Nescio" <nobody@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:d5bcb1535154d27d192fedb2ad41868e@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 O'Hush wrote:
>
> >
http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/fact/thr_report.cfm?Thread_ID=183&topcategory=Hand
>
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganglion_cyst
>
> Whew, thanks. Must be that.

It's quite common.

> It is almost gone now too -

Good!

> a little residual pain when I press on it. My
> guess is that in the future heat would be better than cold - heat would
make
> the fluid thinner and more likely to roll back into the joint area where
it is
> supposed to be.

My grandmother used to tell a story about a doc who treated a large ganglion
cyst by having her place her arm on his desk and, without warning, thumping
on her wrist with a medical dictionary. (Don't do that. ;)

~~Patti



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