Weird hand pain and swelling - anyone know what this is?

[ThinkFast]

Short version:
Last night after riding for an hour in extreme cold in the mountains I got some Chinese food and when I tried to use chop sticks I got a stabbing pain in the center back of my hand like I’ve never felt before. This morning I can still feel a bit of that pain, and I’m noticing that both hands are swollen on the backs. Any thoughts about what this could be?

Long version - freak winter storm
Was moto camping this weekend up in Mendo National Forest. Buddies who organized it didn’t see anything in the weather forecast about the freak winter storm that blasted through our camp at 6000’ Saturday night, dropping temps into the 20s and covering everything in a coating of ice.

We decided to ride out yesterday morning in thick fog with temps in the high 20s, then around 30-32 for the first hour or so of riding on dirt forest roads before we started to descend to warm up.

My hands were so cold I couldn’t do up my helmet strap. When we stopped to regroup I put my hands on the cylinders to warm my fingers - heated grips on high and winter riding gloves were no match for the cold.

Thanks for any thoughts.

 

[Maddevill]

Spank your monkey with your other hand.

Mad

Just kidding. Could be Carpal Tunnel. Try some foam grip covers.

Mad

 

[DucatiHoney]

Maybe chillblains....

 

[ThinkFast]

Spank your monkey with your other hand.

Mad

Just kidding. Could be Carpal Tunnel. Try some foam grip covers.

Mad

Takes two hands to handle a whopper, dude... :rofl

I already have foam grip covers. In this case, they didn't do me any favors since they block the heat in my heated grips from getting to my hands.

The swelling is the part that I'm worried about - not sure that's a carpal tunnel thing. Thanks for the thought, though. Still investigating.

 

[ThinkFast]

Maybe chillblains....

Thanks, DucHoney. Yeah, I found that too when I googled the symptoms. I had about half of the ones they listed - no redness, no itching, no burning. (Had you heard of chilblains before?? Only time I've even heard of that is from reading Jack London ).

 

[DucatiHoney]

I've had chillblains during a visit to Norway one February--front of my thighs. Mine just itched. I didn't notice really until days later when I had this weird series of very fine scabs all over the front of my legs. A bunch of us had it in my group. Like all illnesses, you don't need to have all the symptoms to have "the thing". I'd probably just keep an eye on it.

 

[ThinkFast]

I've had chillblains during a visit to Norway one February--front of my thighs. Mine just itched. I didn't notice really until days later when I had this weird series of very fine scabs all over the front of my legs. A bunch of us had it in my group. Like all illnesses, you don't need to have all the symptoms to have "the thing". I'd probably just keep an eye on it.

Wow. Yes, I think that's what I've got then. the back of my hand has all these small white marks - irregularly shaped and slightly raised - like tiny blisters.
Crap.

Rubbed on some cannabis cream to ease the swelling and the ache.

Maybe time to buy some Li-ion battery heated gloves.

 

[Pushrod]

Stigmata.