INTRODUCTION

Having searched hundreds of sites over the last 5 months on the subject Cubital Tunnel Decompression (Ulnar Nerve) and surgery I decided to write this blog as my own experience. During trying to find information I could find loads on Cubital Tunnel Decompression but only a couple where scarce information of the operation were actually written.

In 2001 following the birth of my son I began to experience mild pins and needles and waking regular in the night feeling my hands were double the size. On a visit to my doctor I was given the needle prick test and told perhaps nerves were trapped but to leave it to go away on it own. I suffered in silence thinking this was nothing out of the ordinary and in 2008 I had my second little baby boy. Following his birth I suffered once again with the pain, swelling and pins and needles but this time to a degree that I had lost grip and sensation and having dropped the baby bottle twice onto my sleepy newborn I had to hand control to my husband fof night feeds and return once again to my doctors. My doctor listened this time and decided sending me to see a consultant plastic surgeon was my best option.