Good Luck Dawnmc!
I have suffered from trigger finger and carpal tunnel syndrome since I was 21 (I am 38 now). So far, I have had 2 carpal Tunnnel operations under local anasthetic (1997, 1998), my left thumb trigger released, then re-released as they sewed the nerves from my wrist into the scar tissue (2003), my middle finger on my right hand released (2004), my right thumb right index finger and middle and ring fingers on my left hand released (2010).
Now my index finger on my left hand and ring finger on my right are playing up! I have been to my GP on several occasions and they just told me to take painkillers! When I finally lost my temper and said that I could not open jars, or even packets with my hands as they are, they finally agreed to send me to see a specialsit...I'm still waiting. I have been told by a different GP that maybe all the scarring from thew previous surgeries has affeccted the remaining fingers, I disagree, I think that it is still triger finger, as it feels the same as all the previous ones.
No matter, everything that seems to "go wrong" with me is blamed on my diabetes. I was diagnosed as T1 in 1983 when I was 10 and then in 2003 when I moved house and was seen by a different hospital, they did tests and found that I was a severly insulin restistance T2! My pancreas was working perfectly and I had twice the normal amount of insulin floating around in me!!!! I'd been on insulin for 20 years by then, no wonder my weight was going up! I was told they couldn't take me off the injections as my body would go into shock, having been using synthetic insulin for so long alongside my natural stuff... So, now I am stuck. Insulin dependant, lots of complications and hand troubles....Anything else to go wrong I wonder??????