Pain in hand

[Wilson12345]

About 5 weeks ago I started getting worried about an ever-growing pain in the metacarpophalangeal joint in my left index finger

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The pain seemed noticeable about 2 weeks after I started to ride my R6, can't see how it could be the bike so I put it down to pulling/injuring it in my job which requires lots of heavy lifting

When the pain peaked, after about a week, I decide to have a good feel of the area, it did not feel good. Feels kinda like there's a small bone which is painful to touch under my skin (red dot on diagram)
I was alarmed and was going to go to the doctors

After a couple of days it went, 'phew'

On Monday it came back, same pain, same painful boney feeling when I touch the sore area, I'm almost certain the boney bit isn't there when there's no pain

Can't describe the pain cause it's not something I've ever felt before, it doesn't hurt when I don't use my hand, when I do use my hand I can feel it, when I use that finger or touch the spot it is extremely painful

Anyone experienced this weird joint paint before? Am I getting old? Do I have R6-induced arthritis? Is it cause of my slave-labour lifting-and-carrying-20-tonnes-of-shit-a-day job? Maybe it's from going to the gym?

Discuss!
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[Robby]

It started after getting the R6, so there's a possibility. If you're resting on that joint rather than your palms there's a lot of force going through it and it's a fairly delicate joint (small joint, big range of movement). Riding more and carrying stuff isn't going to help the problem fix itself.

The obvious way to diagnose is to not ride the R6 for a month or so, but that isn't going to happen. You should be resting on your palms, so see if you can adjust the clips on out a bit to spread the load more. If they're angled in too much then the weight will be going through the inside of your hands, between your index finger and thumb.

Or just man up and get a Harley, no weight through your hands at all.

[Rogerborg]

That reminds me, I'm going to the doctor to ask about adjusting my clutch cable.

Get it checked out by a professional, you spacker!
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[Wilson12345]

[stinkwheel]

There actually is a very small bone there in some people called a sesamoid bone, embedded in the flexor tendon. More common to have one at the thumb joint but there is occasionally one at the second metacarpophalangeal joint too.

It can become inflamed which I suppose would be called second metacarpophalyngeal sesamoiditis.
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[duhawkz]

sounds like over vigorous self gratification to me,

lets face it you are a massive wanker
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[Wilson12345]

My faith in God has rewarded me with a painful left hand as opposed to my wonderful right masturbating hand, not the first time either, had an off and broke my left hand, had an other off and cut my left hand up in three places. God is looking after my right hand, he knows how much it means to me.
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