Has anyone ever had one of these? Apparently i got a small on the top of my wrist and my trainers said to go to the Dr. to get it drained.
Anyone with personal experience with this please give me some insight so i know what i should do and if it comes back and why.
Thanx.
I used to get em every once in a while they would come back for some weird reason… This was when I was like 16 years old… Anyways, I would just tape my wrists before football practice, games, or workouts… eventually the pain would go away… just ice it is all I can tell ya…
i tried everything to get rid of mine, nothing really worked till i tried the old fasioned way
smashed it with a bible!
no kidding and it worked, and has never returned
thats the thing i do not understand… Mine is small and it doesnt feel soft. It feels almost as hard as bone. So i dont get how it can be smashed. lol.
What did yours look like.?
it was hard, sort of like a marble under the skin.
i was getting them periodically for years from work (as a chef), after i did the trick with the bible it was forever gone.
smashing it seems like it will hurt, but it didnt, there was no pain at all.
one of my anatomy lectures claims its not the safest thing to do, but im just happy its gone.
it seems liek it hurts even when i knock on it though. lol.and it seems liek there is nothing to pop.
Hey Quick, just curious, did you do something that you can think of that may have caused it? I would see your family doc and if he/she cant fix it, tell him to refer you to a dermatologist, to be safe.
I guess, the next important questions are:
1)when did you first starting noticing the cyst.
2) has it gotten progressively worse or stayed the same?
Well, i do remember having a bit of wrist pain at times last season (doing cleans, benching heavy, typing alot etc). It really started hurting this summer when doing close grip bench, powercleans and such. That is when i noticed the bump. Although its real small it looks like a swollen wrist bump or something. I am going to see the dr. this week althought smashing it with a book seems like and easy cure however i cant see this thing actually popping since it feel almost as hard as bone. Im afraid ill do wrist damage if i hit it. You can only see it if i bend my wrist all the way down.
Is it painful when you palpate it? or is it simply thick/dense?
If i press real hard it hurts a bit. Otherwise from simply pressing it, no.Hurts the most when my wrist in in the pushup position with weight on it.
Hmmm, well I dont think this will help, but have you tried exposing it to ice for a bit, see if it might actually just be inflammation of some kind?
Ha… Yeah I forgot, I noticed that a sudden club to that will make the pain go away, no joke. I noticed that if I was stalk blocking or something or if my wrist were bent back a lil further like doin pushups or somethin it would go away… thats just my experience.
If it is what you say? My sister had one and had it removed by surgery- no post-op probs, quick recovery. One of my athletes has had success with accupuncture - worked well.
I’ve had them appear in both wrists, mostly when I was younger (age 15-20). Both were rock solid, and did bother me for some time. However, they ususally went away on their own - usually while getting smashed during playing football (as with others above). Doctor suggested against getting it drained unless it really bothered me.
I used to bench with my wrists in a hyperextended position, which is the only thing I could think of that would have caused the problem. I now bench with my wrists in a neutral position, and haven’t had any problems since (don’t know if this is the reason why). I now use a lot heavier weights, and include a lot more Olympic lifts in my workouts - and haven’t had any problems in the last 6-8 years. Don’t know if the wrists just strengthed up on their own or not. Regardless, the problem eventually went away on its own.
As for what the doctor said:
If I remember correctly, the reason why he advised against getting it drained is that when the fluid enters the cyst from the wrist, it will often become ‘gel-like’. In this state, the fluid is often difficult to remove, and some of it will often stay behind, causing the cyst to easily reform. He said that there was only a 50-50 chance that getting it drained would heal the cyst, and therefore advised me to get it removed/aspirated only if it was causing severe pain.
These cysts suck. They are a protective reaction by the body. Fairly common in the military from all of the push-ups and the posititon that the wrist gets put in. That is how I got mine.
The fluid is very thick like hair gel as stated previously. They will fill and drain as regulated by the stress you put on the area. A strong smash can “pop” the cyst draining the fluid. Sometimes mine were so painful that getting them drained were almost an orgasmic experience because of the relief. No joke at all. It can be fairly painful though getting it drained, depending upon the size of the cyst and the skill of the doctor. The syringe is fairly large, 16/18guage maybe.
They can cut you open and remove the tissue, but if you keep doing the same activities which cause it to flare up, they will just come back again. When I was in college it was free to get them drained, so I would get it done probably every few months when they got bad. Sometimes I can not perform cleans as the fluid completely blocks range of motion, not to mention the pain.
I seem to get a similar thing myself occasionally. Any intensive guitar playing doesn’t do it any favours. It does improve and disappear with rest in my case though.
Just curious, does it settle itself right at the hinge of the joint area? where the wrist stops and the hand begins…
Yes. Both of mine seemed to appear at the distal end of the radius, directly over the scaphoid and lunate bones of the wrist. However, they were both so big that it was hard to determine if it originated from the junction between the forearm/wrist or the wrist/metacarpals of the hand.