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1) Go to a doctor, and get diagnosed as to how bad things have gotten. You catch it early, and you just change behavior. A little later? Cortisone injections. Too late? Surgery that may cripple you.
2) Get your doctor to get you to a physical therapist that specializes in this. When I did mine I was in Silicon Valley and they were everywhere, but where you live YMMV.
3) Listen to the physical therapist and do what he/she tells you. ignore everybody else here. For me, my #3 was "Code only, exclusively, and forever on a Kinesis Ergo or Maltron Keyboard, and never, ever, ever, for any reason, use a mouse; only a Logitech Marble Mouse". That might be the right story for you. It might not. My particular problems are with the messed up way I type on a flat (or flat-ish) keyboard, and wrist pronation from bad mouse usage. Here's the thing: My Symptoms Are Useless To You. As much as this thread could turn into 50 people recounting their RSI stories, it's rubbish to you. Follow my #1, #2, and #3, and you'll be fine. Ignore any of them, for any reason, and you may cripple yourself. There's a time and a place for "Ask HN". This isn't. This is a time a place for "Ask a bloody Doctor". |
I'd go as far as to say stop what you're doing and move away from the keyboard, make an appointment to see the doc. Every second the poster is here they're just exacerbating the problem.