Yeah, wrist pain has been on and off for me as well, largely due to computer use (and alleviated by ergonomics). Was there any positive end to your story?
Haha. I'm sorry, this exchange reminds me exactly of this reflection on getting older and going to the doctor's, from Louis CK:
My grandmother was a doctor and apparently when old people came to her with problems sometimes she'd be like: Can you show me your passport please? Yes, see that date there? That's why your ankle hurts, go back home It was the USSR so I guess it was an acceptable thing to do back then :P
For me the problem was that there was no obvious reason for my wrists or knees to be hurting. I wasn't at a desk typing or running and that's why it took so long to figure out the issue. I actually still don't even know what the issue is technically. My mom has celiac and mentioned that before she was diagnosed she had bad joint pains she had just associated with getting older that went away after changing her diet. I had been meaning to get tested for a while since I had other issues and I decided to this time before spending hundreds on physio that might not be necessary. Well getting the proper test takes 4 damn months and I'm not the kind of person to just sit waiting patiently so I just stopped eating gluten. I only planned to stop for a little while to try it out but 3 weeks in I got a job working physical labour since all my pain was gone. I ate gluten again for a month after work was finished to get the test and it came back negative but I'll never actually know. I could have screwed it up by not eating enough, but I actually don't think I have it. I think they'll figure out in the next few years what's wrong because I just don't think I believed hard enough for any placebo effect. Not that I know how hard you have to believe, but I believed in other things more only to be let down. I would definitely call that a positive end considering all my problems were solved by not eating certain foods. I'm also now really into baking bread and I'm getting pretty good at it.
It's really not bad as far as digestive problems go. It's actually one of the easiest to manage and I would have been relieved if I had it although that's the perspective of ' if I'm going to be sick I would rather this' as opposed to the option of being healthy. Obviously healthy wins every time. Now I'm just hoping whatever is wrong with me stays solved by just changing my diet a little. For some reason I'm deficient in B-12 when I'm eating gluten but just fine when I'm not so I don't know really might have just messed up the test. My grandfather is the same way and he tested negative as well. I guess they'll figure it out eventually but for now I just hope things keep working out. Another theory is maybe it would have developed into Celiac since it is in the family. My mom only got bad later in life but had a few problems earlier that were seemingly related. I obviously can't know if she would have tested positive with the early problems but I do wonder. Oh and then there's my sister who got terrible migraines her whole life and those stopped when she stopped eating it. They came back again when she started eating gluten again but she isn't bothering with the test. People just don't have time for that kind of stuff so we won't ever know what's wrong with her but being migraine free makes her pretty happy these days. Scientists have their work cut out for them studying the human body that's for sure