Bone in wrist

[zipadeedodah]

On the top of my right hand (where my wrist is), I have a bone sticking out, which has only been there a few days. It doesn't hurt, but in certain positions (ouch, including typing...) it's quite uncomfortable. Is it possible just to push this bone back into place? I've tried, but it doens't want to go anywhere!!

[Buddy]

Sounds like a ganglion which is quite hard but is not a bone.It is a fluid filled type of cyst which pushes through your tendons and quite often just disappears.A good whack with the bible was the old fashioned cure.I just put up with mine and it just disappeared as quickly as it came.

[jno]

ganglia (the plural!) do sometimes break up if struck with a heavy object; and the family Bible would once have been the heaviest thing in a home. I have one that bobs up in my foot occasionally, and hurts a lot. Your GP should be able to treat it.

[dotjhawkes]

jno!!!!! Not one of your most profound posts!!!!!

[Chillum]

Definitely sounds like a ganglion, I'd one a few years back, it burst of it's own volition, hurt for a day or two, then it was gone. Wait for it go, or whack it with a copy Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

[zipadeedodah]

Thanks guys, I'll wait for a couple of days, and then get a heavy object ready..

[Philtaz]

If it persists, ask your GP to refer you to an Orthopaedic Surgeon. We do them routinely where I work, they are often excised under local anaesthetic and usually take only a few minutes.