Hi All,
I'm finishing training and have started to develop what I think is a cubital tunnel syndromes or some sort of ulnar pathology with numbness (no weakness yet) in the characteristic distribution [basically feels like i'm always in some sort of half-shoulder shrug and my 4th5th fingers frequently feel like they are asleep). No weakness yet (from what I can tell). It hasn't at all affected my ability to operate. But I can't type for long without having to flex my fingers. One-handed texting is a problem, etc etc Its annoying enough that I went to an Hand Surgeon to have it evaluated. This was probably naive of me... but I explained I was a surgical fellow and asked him if we could refrain from being very specific with respect to my charting as I had not yet applied for disability insurance, there was enough uncertainty at the time regarding the diagnosis, and I didn't want a litany of disabling wrist diseases entering my medical record needlessly. The Hand surgeon looked at me like it was the craziest request he had ever heard which kind of made me think maybe I was overthinking things.
So... I need to see a hand specialist again. Do I need to be even more judicious / discrete about seeing a hand specialist. Does "wrist overuse", "arm stress", or "upper extremity tension" generate the same red flags and increase in premium as specific diagnoses. Will the very act of going to see a hand specialist twice trigger the increase in my future premium. I really have no idea how to even go about seeing a specialist in a "judicious" manner. But I figured someone in sdn may have had a similar challenge and thought I would ask.
Note this is not a question about medical advice regarding wrist pain... This really a how much am I screwing myself financially by going to see a hand specialist.
I'm finishing training and have started to develop what I think is a cubital tunnel syndromes or some sort of ulnar pathology with numbness (no weakness yet) in the characteristic distribution [basically feels like i'm always in some sort of half-shoulder shrug and my 4th5th fingers frequently feel like they are asleep). No weakness yet (from what I can tell). It hasn't at all affected my ability to operate. But I can't type for long without having to flex my fingers. One-handed texting is a problem, etc etc Its annoying enough that I went to an Hand Surgeon to have it evaluated. This was probably naive of me... but I explained I was a surgical fellow and asked him if we could refrain from being very specific with respect to my charting as I had not yet applied for disability insurance, there was enough uncertainty at the time regarding the diagnosis, and I didn't want a litany of disabling wrist diseases entering my medical record needlessly. The Hand surgeon looked at me like it was the craziest request he had ever heard which kind of made me think maybe I was overthinking things.
So... I need to see a hand specialist again. Do I need to be even more judicious / discrete about seeing a hand specialist. Does "wrist overuse", "arm stress", or "upper extremity tension" generate the same red flags and increase in premium as specific diagnoses. Will the very act of going to see a hand specialist twice trigger the increase in my future premium. I really have no idea how to even go about seeing a specialist in a "judicious" manner. But I figured someone in sdn may have had a similar challenge and thought I would ask.
Note this is not a question about medical advice regarding wrist pain... This really a how much am I screwing myself financially by going to see a hand specialist.