Ganglion Cyst removal ? how long is the recovery?

[Gunsmith]

Have have one on the inside of my right wrist that comes and goes , egneraly it will "swell" and cause some discomfort for a week or so then go away for months , each time it comes back it seems to hurt more and last longer , this last time the pain is intense and very limiting to my wrist movement and grip and its been here for over a week.

I just tried to drain or asperate it with a 3cc syringe and a 15g needle , very little came out and it was VERY thick. I called a ortho Dr friend of ours and told him what the problem was and he walked me through the asperation procedure , after nothing happened he said it would be best to cut it out. I'm gonna try to get in to see him thursday to have it dug out. He said it just take a mid arm block and about 20 min to cut it out

My question is what the down time for this , he say I need to take two weeks off of work and probably the same or more for the gym !?!?!

I was thinking two days , any of yall have one of these cut out? if so what the recoupe time for this.

 

[bigman1]

My wife says it depends on if it envolves nerves etc but she did say most likely two weeks is the norm and that you should really take the time for it to heal.

 

[Gunsmith]

well "some beech" , I guess I can still hit legs and cardio.

Damn it figues after you hire sombody the shit startes comming , first the flu now this

 

[Gunsmith]

after i stopped lifting my cyst went away on its own, it just took time, like 3 months... it never came back after that.

A buddy that had one said he drained his and it went away and never came back , I can't even drain this one. I don't like the idea of fishing around in my wrist with a 15g needle though so I may not have gotten it just right.

It did go away several time but each time it comes back the pain is worse and it hangs around longer , their like a 50% chance that draining it will fix it permanitly but a 95% that removing it will fix it for good.

Its to the point where it hurt alot to grip anything to curl of pull , and rolling my wrist back realy hurts so its realy hard to bench press.

I guess it better to fix it now and have it out of the way than have it come back a few month before a show.

 

[Flex2019]

It's important to allow proper recovery after removal to prevent it from coming back. I had mine drained twice over the years and both times I went back into the gym too quickly and it reappeared. May be different after an actual surgical removal though.

 

[SecondAct]

I got one of those years ago in HS, I asked my dad who had a history of them what to do, he put a thin piece of wood over it and slammed it with a hammer. It worked and never came back. I wouldn't recommend that, but that was the "old school" cure for those.

 

[Gunsmith]

I got one of those years ago in HS, I asked my dad who had a history of them what to do, he put a thin piece of wood over it and slammed it with a hammer. It worked and never came back. I wouldn't recommend that, but that was the "old school" cure for those.

yea i heard of similar remadies , also heard they can coeback bigger after such a fix , my luck it break my fuckin wrist . Im gonna let the dr try to drain it before cutting on it , he thinks i may not have been in it good

 

[downsouth]

i had the same surgery done about 2 months ago, nothing to it. I had it done on a friday and went back to work on monday. I took a week off from the gym and went real easy on it the following week, its not that bad.