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Location: Alberta, Canada | ...index on my fretting hand as exhibit A.
For the last month or so, I have been getting sharp pains when fretting chords like E or C. I'm pretty sure it's not a sliver or some foreign object.
I'm at a loss as to what it could be. The tip is quite tender if pushed on just the right way and I'm wondering if it could have something to do with the callous from fretting.
I've yet to consult a Doctor about it, thinking that it would just pass at somepoint, but, it is to the point that I am having trouble playing comfortably and so my playing is seriously lacking in the enjoyment catagory and I'm playing less and less.
Anyone have a similiar experiance that might shed some light here?
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | You weren't pickin' your nose the last time your wife found out you bought another guitar, were you??? |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | You are probably developing a "neuroma", and need to see your doctor. Happens sometimes, with repetitive motion. Actually, the location could be in your wrist, not in your fingertip. |
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Location: Alberta, Canada | No, there is no pain any place other than the tip and only in one spot. I can push on the tip all around it and and get little or no pain at all. However, if I push directly on the one place it is painfull enough that I cannot fret a string strong enough to make it ring.
Maybe there is something in there. Guess I better see a Doc.
You should always use your picking hand to pick your nose so you don't booger up your strings! :) |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Small metal splinters will do that, but usually show. Glass slivers won't.
AND, "Yuo can pick your nose, but you can't pick your family." |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I don't imagine you've done any gardening in Canada lately, but it sounds like what I've had a couple times after pruning roses. Just get a tiny piece of thorn in there and it hurts to push on the top of it. Mine usually work up to the surface where I can see them, though. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I get those little metal splinters all the time... got one just the other day as a result of the can opener leaving a burr on a can of tomato puree. It was in there but, I couldn't see it for the life of me. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | funny you say that... |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Well,...type it really. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | He "talks" what he types... |
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I give you the finger
