>tfw developed cubital tunnel syndrome from overusage of computers throughout my life
>literal permanent, irreversible nerve damage
>have to wear elbow support brace at home, at night and throughout most of the day and take vitamin B6
This doesn't feel very kawaii.
Who else ">destroying their bodies through their isolatory habits" here.
lmao shitty thread
>>24086650
I use my computer 10+ hours a day most days. How much did you have to use it to destroy yourself? Maybe you had a terrible diet at the same time?
desu senpai are you a girl btw?
>>24086650
How old are you? Like how shitty must your entire diet and exercise routine been to do this?
>>24086698
It's not a diet thing it's an arm posture/nerve compression from weight being placed on the elbow thing.
I'm a vegetarian so my diet is fine
>>24086756
Ye.
>>24087014
Why do you believe that ulnar nerve entrapment has anything to do with diet and exercise?
Did you study Human Phys in highschool?
>>24087021
>"I'm a vegetarian so my diet is fine"
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Should have used vim.
>>24087059
Idk what a vim is.
>>24087045
>I'm a vegetarian
Protein and iron deficiency aren't going to help you any.
>>24086650
I've been using my computer for 12+ hours a day for nearly a decade now and I'm fine.
>>24087021
>I'm a vegetarian so my diet is fine
>>24087059
That's funny way of spelling Emacs.
>>24087099
Sorry I meant pescatarian, I eat fish and eggs.
I don't know why you meat guys seem to believe that protein and iron exists only in meat, do you even mushrooms and legumes.
>>24086650
i got drunk and fell asleep on my hands. gave myself nerve damage that lasted for like 2 or 3 weeks -- incessant tingling and numbness in my 4th and 5th digit. thank fuck it went away.
>>24087118
Enjoy your cancer :^)
http://m.cancer.org/cancer/news/news/world-health-organization-says-processed-meat-causes-cancer
>learned when I was fucking 14 that if I use a normal computer mouse for more than an hour it fucks up my wrist, elbow, shoulder
>been using a trackball ever since (Marble Mouse USB)
>tell people my joints go to shit if I do even menial exercise, that I lost a maintenance job because it drove me to drinking and I couldn't handle the pain
>lel just be yourself :^) pain is good for you, etc, etc
Fucking normalfags.
My brother literally has had two disks replaced and has no cartilage on one or both knees, at 27. Fuck shitty genes.
>>24087133
Do you eat jello?
But yeah, there is protein in those things, but it's more difficult to get them than by eating meat.
Do you eat shrimp? What's your reason for being a vegetarian.
>>24087162
good thing i don't eat processed meat, then isn't it.
>>24086650
I'm destroying my liver, does that count?
>>24087213
No I don't eat jello/jellies or gravy or anything like that.
My reason is that whilst I actually agree that as mammals we're intended to eat meat and that I used to really enjoy eating it, that I can no longer contribute to the hypocrisy of claiming to love animals whilst actively contributing to a system that inflicts easily the worst form of torture and abuse on millions of animals daily across the world.
I would eat an animal if it was something I had shot and prepared myself, but I will not eat the flesh of a pig that has lived its short life in a dark shed stinking of ammonia, surrounded by the squeals of its kin, lying it its own shit in a cage little bigger than itself whilst its pumped with hormones to artificially age it so that it can get to some keks dinner table faster.
I just can't ignore it anymore. It's fucking atrocious.
I legit believe in the future humankind will look back on the meat industry and compare it to one of the worst atrocities committed by the hand of man.
did you post this on lolcow as well?are you that desperate for attention?
>>24087381
>keks
Keks*, fuck you autocorrect.
>>24086650
I have cubital tunnel too anon :-(
>>24087021
>I'm a vegetarian, so my diet is fine
Oh lad
>>24087405
Ye.
Also you could argue that, but I'm feeling so depressed about the situation and just want to talk to people about it. So technically, yes I want attention.
I also want to warn people about the dangers of continuous bad posture.
Nobody ever thinks about the repercussions of this shit when you do it causally every day.
>>24087381
Fair enough. Would you eat that super expensive meat that is actually raised in a respectable way and is able to roam freely and what not?
I think you're getting a little carried away with the atrocity aspect, but I respect the foundations of your beliefs.
>>24087409
KEKS* IT DID IT AGAIN
>>24087415
How did you inflict yours and how do you manage it?
Do you wear a brace at night too?
>>24087480
Ty Anon, I really appreciate that, of course I respect your own desicions as well.
Regarding the meat bit... probably not.
The thing about vegetarianism is that when you abstain from meat for long enough eventually it begins to sicken you.
It's really strange because in the beginning I had such a difficult time not eating chicken and pork and shit, I LOVED meat, but now when I think about the taste and texture it makes me feel queasy.
Well for the past 2 years I've spent 90% of my life hiding in my room, my eating habits are sporadic and completely situational, living on the bux means I often go hungry.
I don't expect to live a long life, but I'm basically a walking corpse as it is.
>>24087381
>moral vegetarian
Bruh, there are plenty of fine reasons to adopt the type of diet you have, but that is not one.
>>24087569
It's no big deal. I've known several people that feel the same way you do. I even dated one! I mean, I understand some mass farming operations are disgusting and abhorrent, but I feel they're the minority.
I don't think the future will ever see us abandon or even shun our meat eating ways. We'll just make a better balance between quality of animal lives and cost. Or we'll just consume less of them.
>>24087609
I think it is.
If half the world's pop. ceased purchasing meat products then subsequently the demand for supply would dramatically drop which would in turn lead to better conditions for animals intended to be consumed.
I think with all the veggies and vegans in the world already it must make a pretty sizeable dent.
Meat legit revolts me now anyway so I'll never turn back even if I decided I hated vegetarianism.
>>24087050
>>24087099
>>24087118
>>24087448
Why do people get so offended when they discover someone is a vegetarian?
Are you all dietitians or just shitposting your uneducated opinions.That was a trick question, a dietitian would need more data on his actual diet before coming to any conclusions
>>24087182
my cousin had nerves in his lower back cut just to stop the pain. his father has like 3-5 fused vertebrae. sucks to suck.
>>24087609
Bruh, it's nobody's business to judge his reasoning.
>>24087182
>it fucks up my wrist, elbow and shoulder
in what way? pain?
>>24086698
If you use the keyboard and mouse properly and sit straight you'll be fine tbqh senpai
>>24087502
There's a word filter on that turns the word cuCk into kek. TBh becomes desu, and fAm becomes senpai.
>>24087700
I think you overestimate the impact of the followers of your belief and underestimate the dietary tastes and demands of the emerging economies of the world.
Again, I respect your beliefs and think they hold merit even if I don't practice them.
>>24087921
3.2% of Americans consider themselves vegetarian. That's SOME impact.
>>24087921
In the UK alone its estimated that upto 11% consider themselves vegan/vegetarian actually, which is enormous.
>>24088057
>>24087968
And India is 31% vegetarian.
>>24088057
>>24087968
The problem isn't too much with developed countries, but places like China, India, Brazil, and African nations. They're growing and now the people can afford to eat meat more frequently, and they want to.
Where are you from anyways?
>>24088094
India is an oddity with Hinduism, but it's growing population definitely likes eating meat. Specifically chicken. Which is fine, mostly, since chickens *can* be raised efficiently and respectablly more easily than other animals.
>>24086650
How the hell is this possible? I sit in front of computers at least around 10-11 hours / day since I was 6 and I don't have any problems at all.
This is genetical, right?
>>24087133
The oceans are being overfished. The whole ecosystem is going to collapse soon.
Most likely, you're getting your eggs from chickens who are raised inhumanely.
Even if you are eating eggs from free range chickens, you're still wasting energy since you're depending on the chickens to eat quite a bit more food and drink a lot more water than you get from one egg.
>>24086650
I fear the same happened to me, but with my wrist, though. I can't lift anything slightly heavy or twist it that the pain starts. I had to stop going to the gym because of this and now I'm getting fat again. Fucking shit, I'm really not destined to become a normie...
>I will never have a qt3.14 pescetarian robot gf to help put on her elbow brace at night.
Why live?
>>24088503
>>24086650
You guys have absolutely shit genetics then.
>>24086650
>>24087021
Why do you think you belong to r9k?
There is no way you are lonely/isolated if you are a girl.
Nobody is buying this shit.
>>24087381
>claiming to love animals
found your problem senpai. animals are property. god (or evolution if that's your cup of tea) gave mankind dominion over them to do with them as we will.
>>24086650
had carpal tunnel on both my hands from playing brood war, sc2, LoL, and some shitty beat game.
Stopped playing video games entirely and my hands are fine now unless I do something for prolonged hours
>>24087021
>I'm a vegetarian so my diet is fine
retard
How do people get fucked up sitting in front of a computer? I cracked a vertebrae in my back and made a full recovery.
People bitch about smoking being dangerous but sitting around doing nothing all day has to be much worse.
>>24086650
i think its funny you just happened to "accidentally" show your leg in that picture
>>24089050
I do not go outside unless it's too go to university and I don't keep friends, but I never said I was lonely.
I rather enjoy my own company.
>>24086650
how bad is it? i got to a stage where my arms from elbow down were constantly 'asleep', whenever i woke up in the morning if i didn't wear braces the previous night i couldn't move my arms at all.
quit my physical labor job and in about 2-3 weeks it became bearable
>>24089437
What do you study at university? Do you think this will hurt your job prospects?
>>24089559
Idk but my symptoms started a week ago which sounds like an early catch.
I'd notice that when I woke up and when I flexed my arm the left side of my wrist and little/ring finger would begin tingling and then go totally numb/feel dead. The brace has helped a lot already though.
Also kek'ing at people insinuating this is a genetic thing and that they could never get it. It comes from specific sustained posture and pressure applied to the elbow, or in my case, resting my head on my left arm when at my PC or on the bed reading a book.
>>24089671
Linguistics/translation with Japanese and Chinese language modules, and no because you can teach/translate/interpret these languages plus English in literally any country in the world.
I'm not doing it to get a job though, I genuinely love my subjects and thoroughly enjoy every single day that I'm learning, and with languages you spend the rest of your life learning them. It's great.
>>24089671
Oh wait you're asking if the nerve thing will hurt my prospects! (and nah).
>>24089697
if you are only at that stage it definitely isn't permanent. just give your wrists a rest for a few weeks. after that make sure you stretch them every morning etc. i barely get it anymore and my arms were basically dead weight on my body sometimes. doctors like to blame it on computers as well but as long as you aren't doing some fucking up wrist positioning it doesn't effect it
>>24089782
What country do you live in?
>>24089808
Haha yeah, I was talking about the nerve thing and I figured it would with the writing being possibly more difficult.
>>24089822
This is very reassuring, thank you so much for putting my mind at ease.
I was actually crying over it last night thinking my hand would never go back to normal. I'm glad your own recovered as well.
did this happen because you lean on your elbow all the time? i always do this because there's basically no other way
>>24089892
I'm in the UK bruh', but I'm righthanded thankfully.
>>24086650
I got that shit too except im not a bitch. Fuck the brace and your vitamins.
>>24089927
Yes. It you continue this behaviour it is inevitable that you will experience nerve entrapment at some point.
Turn back now please.
>>24089934
>UK
Too shame.
How long ago were you diagnosed?
>>24089948
Enjoy your ulnar claw.
How the hell do people hurt themselves using computers? I've literally spend most of my waking life on a computer and I've never even had wrist or finger troubles. What gives?
Do you people have a shitty posture or something?
>>24089973the better for gripping firearms with, my dear
>>24089972
Only a week ago so I caught it early thankfully, but experiencing any symptoms means that the damage has already been done to an extent.
>>24089993
>I've literally spent most my life with a penis, and I've never had a vagina, what gives?
>>24089993
Yh it's shitty posture, particularly resting your head against your hand with your elbow at a hard surface.
>>24089999
Good that you caught it earlyish, sucks that you have permanent damage.
>>24090023
Shitty analogy and vaginas are disgusting, so obviously.
>>24090036
Well at least you can get weed now.
>>24089996
You won't be able to hold anything Anon, if ignored it paralyses your hand.
>>24089999
Is the prognosis at least optimistic about symptoms lessening?
>>24090072
That's terrifying. To think that you could have an entirely useless appendage.
>>24087021
>I'm a vegetarian so my diet is fine
TOP KEK
>>24089912
it does a job on your head desu
at the time my family were panicking thinking i would never be able to work again, i was just worried about not being able to use a keyboard.
>>24090088
Oh yeah, the symptoms are likely to vanish entirely in time provided I be gentle with my arm, but given that the tissues surrounding the nerve will anyway be scarred it means I'll have to be careful with it for the rest of my life.
>>24090116
I know right? That's why I sat up crying like a literal bitch when I found out.
>>24090207
I meant little bitch but literal bitch works too.
>>24090234
i have a hard time trusting this shit, what are you a 60 year old woman? it's impossible to get that shit at a young age
>>24089197
I had started playing morrowind on my laptop with the trackpad and it fucking hurt my hands bad. Maybe OP should just lay off the vidya and computer for a while.
>>24090306
no op but i got it at 18
>>24090378
Ok but I just realised something
OP's arm looks like a total wimp, do you guys do any exercise?
>>24090306
lol, seriously? And your source for ulnar nerve entrapment only being known to affect the elderly is...? I guess my GP must be undertrained, or blind kek
>>24090410
I'm a woman.
Can't you see my tights and dress hem?
>>24090410
its not about strength.
also read the thread apparently op is gril
>>24090410
It has zero correlation with muscular strength. It's a nerve thing.
>>24090452
a what? must be a typo
>>24090421
>>24090459
>>24090522
I rest my case, it's caused by you guys not doing enough exercise. Good thing to know I dodged a bullet there
But srsly, consider investing some time in your well being families
>>24090556
How fucking retarded are you that you're apparently incapable of taking one second to Google this to see for yourself that it's caused by nerve compression, or are your arms just to fat to reach the keyboard multiple times a day.
>>24090207
I can understand that. Being told you have nerve damage at a young age? Fuck that. I'm sure if I stay in my current job for a decent amount of time I'm going to need knee replacement surgery.
>>24086650
Cute arm can i see your feet
>>24087021
>I'm a vegetarian so my diet is fine
WE LAD
>>24090654
exactly, thanks for supporting me
If you guys were doing any exercise your nerve wouldn't be compressed
Just start some sports, it's a win-win situation
I just started to get cubital tunnel syndrome. My left hand pinky and left side of my ring finger are almost constantly numb/asleep and I'm starting to get dull pain along the bottom of my forearm/hand.
Mine is from destroying my body at work, though.
>>24090739
Brace.
Now.
Seriously, don't play around with this shit and ignore it or you are actually going to lose all function in those two fingers.
>>24090822
Yeah I know it's pretty serious. Can I just use one of those braces from CVS/Walgreen's? Also my friend who has nerve pain sent me a bunch of his extra lyrica. Do you think that will help?
Will the brace interfere with my warehouse work? Should I get the surgery?
>tfw hypermobility
>shoulder dislocates in my sleep every once in a while, very painful and need to go to hospital to have it put back in
>can feel my knees about to dislocate sometimes and have to straighten them quickly to stop it
>both wrists dislocate dozens of times a day
dont want to think about how fucked my joints will be when im older
>>24090900
Yeah I just use a basic fabric support brace for your elbow but I switch it around to press against the inner of my arm which prevents me from flexing my arm properly, and if I want it to be completely straight I simply slip something like a pen in between the straps at night which prevents me from bending my arm entirely.
With the fabric one you are still allowed movement, but the pressure just reminds you to keep it stretched and starts untraining your bad habits.
Honestly the most important thing right now it is for you to prevent yourself from keeping your arm in a fixed fkexedflexed positio at night a the most damaging thing to the ulnar nerve is keeping in continuous fixed positions, not necessarily repeated flexation.
>>24091054
Was your whole arm falling asleep before this?
Now you've got me thinking as sometime I'll wake up and my whole arm will be asleep. Like I cannot move it at all and I need to reposition it with my other arm.
>>24091430
Happens to me maybe 1-2 times a month but I always thought it was legit circulation cutoff due to sleep position.
>>24086650
Any exercise your doc has mentioned you can do?
Started experiencing what I assume is carpal tunnel syndrome a few days ago. Gonna call my GP on Monday. I hope it's not permanent. It's because I use my laptop in bed 24/7. I'm gonna set up a desk or something tomorrow and that should hopefully fix it. I really, really, really, really hope I haven't fucked myself up forever because of this.
>>24087021
POST FEET PLEASE OH GOD
>>24093533
Ye nerve gliding.
>>24093648
Which fingers are you experiencing tingling/numbness in?
If it's the little and ring finger it's cubital, if it's the middle and forefinger + the thumb, it's carpal.
post a smiling pic pham
>>24093915
Cubital. Yeah I'm getting the elbow pain, too.
I've had it for a few days. Am I stuck with it forever? I just looked it up and everything that causes it is shit I do every goddam day.
