Mine is light brownish, how dark is yours?

Hi mimpi! Mine is also light brown left and right wrist. Thanks for letting us known about the carpal tunnel syndrome it is scary though. I do some stretching sometimes but no where near as much as I should.

Hi Mimpi hope u must be doing well well i am in front of computer either on mylot or not, but still in front of computer. but still both wrists have same color and not changing color. it might be due to change in weather. or i wonder whats top of table where u have ur PC ot lap top. I am sure if u have glass top/smooth then it wont effect u but if u have big rough, it might effect it Dont worry Wish u all the Best

Mine seem to be normally coloured so far. I had never payed attention to this though. I can understand the discomfort one can go through due to the carpal tunnel syndrome as i have had to endure some of the symptomes some time back due to RA which had affected my wrist. From what i understand this syndrome is not necessarily limited to those using keyboards, but also those who do a lot of manual work involving the wrists. It can also be caused dut curling the wrist while sleeping. To prevent this from happening i do know that certain wrist exercises are suggested before work and being concious and adjusting our postures followed by breaks in between work. For those who start feeling the symptoms of it, ice water helps, a wrist band, a crepe bandage and even wrist splints. It's important for us to pay attention to information like what you have shared Mimpi as we with our rapidly changing lifestyles, fail to pay attention to how it affects us. Thanks for bring this up.

mine has not changed colors till now,but i have mosquito bite allergy,as a result,the area below the carpel has turned darker like a burnt patch.otherwise i am quite fair by indian standards.

So now I've gotta take care of my carpals mimpi?? I have jsut conducted a thorough check of said carpals and they are as pasty white as they have always been! lol. I do sometimes get pains in my hand musscles though from typing away for long hours every day so there are some basic stretches I do often that help with that. My advice is that once you're done with the carpals, you'd better check your butt! The last thing you want is pressure sores from all that sitting in front of the computer!

I used to type at high speed up to 13 hours a day and never experienced any discomfort--you could say I typed my whole way through college, and that was about 12 years, because I went to considerably more college than most people do. Well, that is, except for one day long ago when one of the secretaries brought a special punch in for everyone to share at an office party. It was a huge delicious iced coffee bowl with several gallons of vanilla ice cream floating in it and whipped cream folded in and I had never tasted anything that good. So although I meant to only have a bit to be polite I ended up having a whole cup and then another, and then the gal who made it brought another cup to me at my desk after I had gone back to work. About 40 minutes later I could hardly type at all. Whoa, it was like my hands and wrists had gone completely arthritic or something. Egads. I had to keep working but could not get up to my usual speed and egads did it hurt! So as good as it was, I never drank any of that again! No, I have never had any discoloration of my wrist. Between you, me, and the lamp post, I believe that supplementing with B vitamins has been shown to prevent and/or alleviate the repetitive stress thing. Also avoiding caffeine. You know, in times past nobody ever heard of carpal tunnel syndrome and yet people worked on MANUAL typewriters. People spent their whole lives working factory jobs. Nobody ever heard of this modern "disease" until the word nutrition fell out of people's everyday vocabulary. It could be dietary.

My face has turned red thanks to a mail I just sent to you.

Mimpi i am stunned... sure.. i have no words.. its a hair raising incident for me.. Not without reasons, why i am stupefied.. and the very reading of this topic amazes me a lot, is that just then i was showing my wrists to my parents,( by about 7.30 Pm today) and was talking about the dark brownish mark that is more pronounced in my right hand,than in the left... which is nearly a centimeter long.. and after a long discussion, which included in eliminating the complex reasons,inclusive of ruling out any skin allergy, of course that which was of the opinion of my Dad, and my finally my Mom decisively and categorically, delivered the knock out punch that it was due to the excessive use of the computers by me..and now by about 9.00 PM,24.11.2008, i was just casually surfing the latest post by my friend Mimpi... My God,. ..My words..i see a post that was started by my friend, that which i discussed moments ago.. Will not this send shivers in your spine.. when you see a friend writing about what you talked a few minutes back? Take care friend, and God bless you. P.S : Kindly don't misconstrue the above lines as that of Charles Dickens.. hehee..

Mine has just started to turn brownish. I have been using the computer this way continuously for just a year or so. I think most of us tend to just hold on to the mouse while reading something. It is due to this habit that the wrist corner gets discoloured.

Great discussion! Mines once was dark brown about 7 months back. But, for some strange reason it turned back light brown. That came from me being on the computer so long too. I have had the same thing happen to me too. I guess that I leave my wrist away from leaning on the desk top too much. I don't want to get Carpal Tunnel either. I do plan to buy me an wrist item to keep on my wrists to avoid the Carpal Tunnel effect. I wonder if they sell an item that will keep from your wrists from turning black? This is something that I am looking for and I am very interested into. I don't want my wrist to get dark just from spending hous on the computer. For some reason mines was dark, then all of a sudden it lightened back up on its own..

I don't notice any discoloration on my wrist, mimpi. But I do worry that one of these days, the doctor would tell me I have CTS. I've spent more time than I'm supposed to online and sometimes, I would only stop when my fingers are ALL sore and my arm starts to tingle. They always recommend to walk away from your computer every so often to give your hands, eyes and back some rest.

Hi Mimpi...Fortunately I spent only 2 or 3 hours a day in front of the Pc,so has not deveoped any skin problems as yet....I have read that too much of Pc usage causes eye problem,back problem,and often leads to obesity too..But this skin discolouration is new to me.....And judging from the responses,I understand many have it.... So Mimpi dear,instead of looking at your wrist and frowning all the time,You should keep a bottle of skin lotion near your pc,and apply it on your wrist every day without fail......If you do not follow my advice,nay ORDER,you will soon have many other people too frowning over your wrist.............

hey I didnt know about this. But my wrist doesnt seem to have changed any colour. maybe because I am not much of a computer gal. However now that I am a myLot member it is tough to stay offline. But I do think that we should take care of our health most importantly more than anything else.

my wrist is also fair like my hands. only small difference is that my left hand have a more fair color at the place where i tie my wrist watch!!!

I have just checked after I read your discussion here.min eis just as the same colour of my skin. it is not different. i have to use computers for about 8 hours per day for my job.

I used to have that skin discoloration on my right wrist also. Since I am a heavy user of computer. But when I noticed it, I got conscious. And so I make a way to remove it and prevent having it again. I wear a wristband when going online and I put lotion on the dark area of my wrist. Its color is even now.

My carpal has not change colors it is still the same color as my skin complexion which is a caramel color.

Goodness, I did not know the wrist got darker from carpal tunnel syndrome. My wrist looks ok thank goodness. This illness can be very painful.

Mine doesnt have discoloration yet. I hope it wouldnt happen to me. It will show how addicted I am to the inernet . :P