I woke up yesterday with lots of pain from movement in my wrist. In some ways, this was nothing new, as I occasionally have some pain (sprain-like) in both wrists. It usually lasts for a few days and goes away. Well this time around I’ve been fighting it for about two weeks and it was finally starting to get better. Until yesterday.

So I decided I’d had enough and that it was time to make my first trip to the doctor since coming to Madison. I was thinking about it and I haven’t been to a doctor in about four years, so I just scheduled a physical. He looked me over and didn’t have any earth shattering news about my health. It was the first time I’d been to a doctor using Epic so that was kind of cool. He had them draw blood to do some routine tests, so I’ll get to check those results on MyChart sometime soon.

The pain in my wrist is being caused by a ganglion cyst. Mine is on the back of my wrist but it isn’t that large, but it’s big enough to see in relation to my other wrist. Let’s just say I’m hoping the immobilization treatment option will do the trick. I’ll be wearing a wrist guard for the next week or so hoping the cyst will go down. It feels pretty good after day one, so I’m just going to play it by ear.