So I decided to push myself and try to knit a short sleeved sweater over a long weekend. I started Friday morning. :knitting: By Sunday night I was almost finished, but my wrist wasn't feeling so good, so I decided to slow down. I finished this morning and I'm wearing it now. :woohoo: I was okay (pics when I get home). I was impressed with myself. I had even timed myself as I did last year, and I was up from 35 sts/min to 56 on my addi turbos. Great, huh?
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I'm at my part-time job now, though, and my right wrist is KILLING me. Just throbbing. I'm a pabo, as the Koreans would say.

Sorry about you wrist, but I think it's outstanding that you finished a sweater over 4 days! :cheering: :cheering: :cheering:

Ouchie! Maybe you want to change the way you knit for a couple of days, take a break. Don't push yourself too much, you can end up with permanent damage!

Please be careful, Nikki! Sounds like you're already on the path to repetitive motion syndrome (could be carpal tunnel syn.), which could seriously injure you - that would be a cryin' shame as you're such a talented knitter.

Seriously, take a break for at least a week from any knitting (ouch!), look up some carpal tunnel stretches on the internet and do them several times a day, you might need some occasional Advil to calm the swelling/inflammation, and ice it a few times a day. From now on, you're going to have to be more moderate (read: less crazy obsessed) about knitting.

This is f/the voice of experience, both from being on your end, and from treating those with carpal tunnel.

Seriously, take a break for at least a week from any knitting (ouch!),

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From now on, you're going to have to be more moderate (read: less crazy obsessed) about knitting.



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Sounds like you're already on the path to repetitive motion syndrome (could be carpal tunnel syn.),

:shock::shock::shock::shock::shock: Well, then I'm getting off this path, and getting onto the path of denial! Repetitive stress injury, repetitive schrmess injury!

Aw man, I was going to take the night off, but a week? Can I crochet? Cuz next I was going to try to design and crochet a top in 5 days. Probably not, crochet is even harder on my wrist. :pout:

Ouch!!! I hope your wrist starts to feel better soon, Nikki! :hug:

Pictures? :poke:

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A friend told me about someone who did something like that. The woman couldn't knit for a year. I hope that doesn't happen to you and I hope you're ok.

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Nadja :knitting:

Dude, you are so lucky that I'm not your doctor. I would have you committed to the nut house STAT.

Now where did I put that Thorazine?

Thorazine, what's that? Is that a make-nikki-happy drug? hmmmm . .. :shifty: It's the same sweater I was working on last Friday at knit night. That was day 1.

A whole year?! What? Knitting needles need to come with warning labels for sensically-challenged people like me! Who can I sue?

okay, no knitting for a while. poo! pic now in Whatcha Knittin'?

Thorazine = liquid straight jacket, no? :teehee:

HA!!! That's a funny equation, but in a way true (for schizophrenia/psychotic break).

that would be a cryin' shame as you're such a talented knitter.

Yea, what nuknitter said.

Hope your wrist feels better soon.

Nikki! Please take a rest!

My best friend started knitting about 7 months ago and she went way overboard with lace scarves and now she is getting cortisone shots for tendonistis:cry:

She hasn't been able to knit for a couple of months. Fortunately she isn't obsessed...if it were me...I don't know what I would do.
I knit every day, and I mean EVERY day and would be devastated if I had to stop.

Take care of you!

I'm majorly impressed by the stitches/minute... but seriously- take a break. if it still really throbs/ aches- try the RICE
Rest
Ice (10 minutes on, 20 minutes off)
Compression (ace bandage/ light brace)
Elevation

maybe pick up an inexpensive wrist brace to wear overnight to keep yourself from twisting or sleeping on it funny.

my wrist injury (non-knitting related- it was computer related) kept me out of work for six weeks and in wrist braces 24/7 for 2 months. The braces Really helped at night when the pain was worse.

take care of yourself! I want to see many more of your special projects!!

Wrist injuries aren't something you want to mess with. I had tendinitis last summer and I still keep my brace close because it hasn't entirely gone away. I lost the whole summer outside of work to that one injury. Definitely take a week or so off from knitting and practice RICE. In the future, listen to your body. If it's telling you to take a break, do so. That's your basic injury prevention.

Congrats on finishing your sweater, though. That's quite an achievement.

-Caet.

Thanks for all your concern. :hug: I'll take it easy for a few days. I also knit or crochet everyday. I wish I were ambidexterous or something. then i could switch off. *sigh* All my hobbies go in obsessive spurts. I get really interested in something, do it much more and learn more about it than the average person in a short time, and then get burned out, lose interest, and move on to something else. I already think beading will be the next thing for me. :think:

Anyway, to do something related but not actually knit, I organized (a little) my stash (now more stuff going up in the sale/swap forum) and am writing down the pattern for that top.

Hey Nikki! Take it easy..We don't want to lose you for some medical forum or something like that!:hug:

Congrats on finishing your sweater so quickly! :cheering:

I'm sorry to hear about your wrist. Do be careful. It sounds like you may be developing Carpal Tunnel. Perhaps you can try using your wrist differently.