Hello All -- I've been typing since the age of 16 -- 40 years -- and had jobs that required me to do so all day. Then came home at night and worked on personal projects. Even banged out stuff on those high carriage typewriters that newsrooms used to have that took the whole weight of the hand to slam down the keys. You could feel like Liberace playing one of those things.

At any rate, I now have carpal tunnel syndrome. It is getting worse on a daily basis.

Thing is, it doesn't hurt while I am at the keyboard. Easy to delude myself it doesn't matter. But hurting more and more and more in all other activities.

Plz don't say see a doc. I don't have time to sit in a doc-in-the-box waiting room for 3 hours so he can tell me to stop typing. It's how I earn a living, how I rec'reate, and all I can do is try to splint the thing correctly, exercise or whatever I'm supposed to do.

Also, I've got to figure out a better keyboard position. I know being ergonomic is what avoided this for decades. However, I used to be able to afford to have a BR set up with desk and chair & all. Now I type in a recliner with a laptop on a bedtray that is a little too high to be ergonomic. This avoids the terrible pain that I had for decades in my neck and shoulders and that caused blitzkrieg stress headaches.

I didn't have the carpal tunnel this summer, bec. I had a recliner in a rented apartment into which I could jam the legs of the bedtray down low. The recliner I purchased for myself doesn't allow that. So, yes, I'm going to be looking for a clever solution to this position problem.

In the meantime, advice on what to help myself will be gratefully appreciated.