still around… have not been on in some times… one… for years I’ve been asking and wanting to hire someone to help clear the pasture… for 5 years… nothing… so I went and put a circular saw blade on a weedeater and am doing it myself… whats not good… is I have severe carpal tunnel… i should not be doing that lol… i had my first therapy yesterday… trying to avoid surgerysleep is hard as there is pain during the day tho it seems to go away… tho I have huge numbness issues and its gardening season… i haven’t even been messing with any of my games online. lol
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If you have to do it yourself I’d suggest you look at a splint (may or may not help).
Also, investigate anti-inflammatories.
I’d suggest Tumeric capsules and CBD full spectrum extract.
Cheers
G
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Cock up braces help my wife and myself a lot and kept us from having surgery multiple times. They are available at any drug store. I use cold and heat to help as well good luck 
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That’s the CT/tendinitis culprit, especially online I believe it was 10-12 hrs of EverQuest and PSO that’s triggered it for me. I honestly wish I never got into playing online. Would’ve avoided the condition if I just played single player offline, then group etiquette to get in one fast when signing on. I feel for you @BeeLady. I’ve found Celebrex helps with stiff joints too
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Look for ones that contain piperine as well if you try them
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I understand at least I think at least a little 
it’s laugh or cry 
As far as the saw blade on the weedeater… I just finished diagnosing a dead weed-eater that I’d used with a brush cutting blade, dedicated use, for about a year. dozens of hours on a 2nd hand Stihl.
Long story, short: it will kill the wacker-- it’s just too much for them. So I will still use but only when nothing else will do the job.
I can no longer swing a machete to clear my jungle so I got a gas-powered hedge trimmer because it won’t wear out like me, and the teeth can be sharpened. Swinging the weedwacker up sideways is just a PITA.
Not sure how much area & where & all of that… but since your profile says something like 2 feet south of Canada, right hand side looking north, I’d say try a craigslist ad for a labor “gig” or search it for people already doing clearing type work. As always, beware of scammers & nutjobs looking for bee-ladies. 
If you worsen the only hands you have left 
then shit creek will get deeper, so … maybe hire it out?
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Nice to hear from you again and sorry to learn of your pain.
I can relate to the agony of aggravating carpal tunnel with the wrong activity. Years ago I had a job in a sediment lab for awhile where I spent day after day with a mortar and pestle pounding hard sediments into dust to prepare them for the chromatograph. By the end of it my right hand was a crumpled claw and my whole arm was useless. The doc gave me cortisone and after a few weeks it relaxed. Gone but not forgotten and it still flares up from time to time.
Hope you get better and can avoid the surgery!
-Grouchy
PS, Goats are really good at clearing pastures…
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true that lol… no this is a high torque weedeater I bought new just for this job… if it dies… so be it. lol but only allowed to once I’m done… hiring people… is a hard thing tho I might have someone to help put the cut brush into piles…
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Not fun stuff, I had really bad carpal issues after a head on car crash I was in. Ended up having to get my carpal nerve cut in my right arm. Got a screw in my scaphoid bone and a ligament that got torn and healed wrong because the dr missed it somehow when they went in with their camera. The test they do is damn near torture.
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well i go see the hand doc on the 19. lets hope its a easy fix
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Hope it works out for you.
Hands are handy 
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update… had carple surgery on the right hand… . not sure if it fixed it… but to soon to tell… at end of sept ill have it done on the left hand and also my elbow has to have the nerve moved… so not sure how long before I can get on the computer from that… lol
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the 27 of this month i go in for surgery on my left hand and elbow… so the recovery will be harder… on good note I got some gummies when I was in Massachusetts seeing a friend… guy in the store I talked too tall guy… he also has ms… and he understood what I’m going through… and was able to suggest something for my nighttime sleeplessness and muscle cramps… lets just say. I’ve been having great sleep
i9 was able to board the bows at the amish farm across the street… so I did not have to sell them… i would only have to keep the bull here… sadly angus the highland bull broke his neck the same day I was moving the girls… he got twisted in the tiestall which he’s been tied in before… I’m pretty sad about that… he was a gentle bull.
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I put it off for years, but carpel tunnel surgery basically gave me back my hands when I finally had it done. Didn’t want to go under, found out Canadians do it with just local anesthesia, got my US doc to do that. Honestly, my hand hurt less even immediately post-surgery with the stitches and all than it did before surgery. I know it doesn’t work that way for everyone, but I hope your left hand results are more like mine.
Also, don’t know if the post-op instructions have caught up with research findings yet, but a few years ago when I had my second surgery the instructions from the doctor were more like for a standard surgery recovery. I did research though, this surgery isn’t repairing something, it’s cutting it. There’s nothing you need to be careful of damaging while it heals.
The studies I read said start PT on your hand the day of surgery and start using your hand again right away, though of course be gentle so you don’t tear stitches. And do way more PT than just a few stretches. Don’t let it make scar tissue you’ll just have to try to break down. I did the PT from the doctor 5x a day, the American Sign Language alphabet every time I thought of it, tied my shoes the third day post-surgery.
Inflammation management is critical too. I brought one of those instant ice packs to my surgery. Activated it and put it on my inner lower arm while I was sitting in recovery. Modern medicine tends to ignore the simplest things that make a big difference. You don’t see athletes waiting an hour before they ice their sports injuries, so I didn’t wait the hour to get checked out and get home.
Disclaimer of course I’m not a doctor, do your own research, blah blah blah. 
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my right might be permanently damaged… but I have hope for my left… i at least got some strength back… on my right… i had a bull get out crawling under the fence… so I had to drive some posts as best I could… and I know that did not help… but I had to do it… no help here lol
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Always wishing the best for you!
webe
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typing one handed lol but monday i get the bandage cast off surgery had gone well sadly apparently I cant depend on the person who lives with me to help unless I almost beg for it ev en then I still one handed take care of the livestock lol
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