RSI; anyone ever had it?

[alreadypacked]

Had a very mild bout a couple of years ago. A mouse-mat with gel pad really helped. As did doing much less work

Me too, always use a gel pad.

[Pogle]

My Mum got it when she worked on the checkout at Tesco, it was lifting all those heavy 12 packs of tins and such, she had to give up knitting - for which we were all grateful

[vetran]

Big hands so I need a big mouse. MS intellimouse explorer or trust laser.

Smaller mouse and I feel like wilmslow after a box of tissues.

Its real and really painful. Even when I was a contractor.

[lukemg]

Yeah, I've had a dose of this, very painful and restricting mouse-wise, wrist support has sorted this, would use other hand before considering time off !

[meridian]

Yeah, I've had a dose of this, very painful and restricting mouse-wise, wrist support has sorted this, would use other hand before considering time off !

Started getting it a few years ago in my right thumb so swapped mouse hands.

As a bonus, it makes pot noodling a lot easier whilst browsing.....

[alreadypacked]

Started getting it a few years ago in my right thumb so swapped mouse hands.

As a bonus, it makes pot noodling a lot easier whilst browsing.....

Too much information

[d000hg]

I know a self-employed gardner who had to have both wrists operated on for carpal tunnel. And I can't remember if my dad had it done, but he looked into it (after retirement).

I got it once and got a nice keyboard & trackball, since then it's largely OK even using normal versions though I do tend to swap which hand I use the mouse with infrequently. In fact my home PC has mouse on the left, at client-site I have it on the right!

[gricerboy]

I got it in my wrists. Found that a banana keyborad did the trick