Ganglion Cyst / Red Desert Clay

I have one on the top of my wrist that some times get very painful. If I immobilize at night when I sleep the pain goes away after a few days.

I had one for years until I fell. I went down on my hand to break the fall and it some how dissolved the cyst.

Good luck!

Have you had it aspirated? I had mine aspirated twice, and after the second time it never came back, and that was many years ago. I did not have surgery for it.

Oh come on, mama! Think about it! HOW would eating clay get rid of a ganglion cyst? That makes absolutely no sense at all. There's lots of things eating clay CAN do, like plug up your bowels or give you metal poisoning or parasites, but it's not going to get rid of a ganglian cyst.

Don't believe stuff like this.

My husband had a ganglion cyst when he was a kid that his parents used to hit with a heavy book! No lie - but that's why they're called bible bumps, because that was the common treatment in the past. He doesn't have one now, so it apparently worked, but it apparently is still a recommended treatment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganglion_cyst
ETA: And after reading the responses below, I think sometimes the old ways are the best ways! To go through multiple aspirations or treatments and the one person who fell found it suddenly disappeared? If you read that article, it mentions how they rarely came back with bible thumping? I'd save the copay and thump!

I had a small gangolian cyst on my wrist/the underside of my wrist, right where the hand meets the wrist. It wasn't very big, but where it was, it caused a lot of pain.

I played volleyball and must have bumped the ball in the exact right spot on my wrist. There was instant pain, my wrist hurt like a b*tch--and then I noticed the next day that the gangolian cyst was gone. (Well, I think it was gangolian. Or maybe it was a bone/calcium cyst; it sat between two small bones in the wrist.

I've never had another issue with that type of a cyst, so I've never had to do any alternative experimenting.

My husband had a huge gangolian cyst on the backside of his hand between the wrist/hand. He had no option but to have it surgically repaired. A gangolian cyst is a rip or tear in the sheath that allows for fluid leakage; the cyst is the fluid that has collected in a pocket. They couldn't just drain his because the tear inside was too big; it would have just filled right back up again.

Most alternative sites say to excise the gangolian cyst you currently have, then use alternative methods to ensure you never get another one.

I had a Ganglion cyst on the top of my wrist before... it was fine for quite a while, & then all of a sudden it became painful. (advice is to leave them alone unless they are causing issues)

Went to a hand specialist, was leaving for vacation in a week & couldn't hold my camera (I'm a hobbyist photographer!).

He did a cortisone injection, & within 3 days pain went away & it receeded.

There are other options as well to surgery, but smacking them with a heavy book to burst them is not one of them. I haven't heard of the clay, but I suggest that if it's bothering you, talk to a specialist (not your regular doctor) to see what your options are.

Luck! T.

I have a small cyst on the underside of my wrist right now. Unfortunately, it's not swollen quite enough to aspirate successfully. My doctor suggested that surgery would be an option if it was hurting me or making it difficult to move my hand, but he didn't recommend it, since they generally go away on their own eventually, anyway.

If it IS hurting, I wear a wrist brace and use a heating pad for a little while, and that helps. Mine is sort of like a rock in your shoe - you know it's there, but it doesn't hurt unless you aggravate it just right.

He also suggested that a two-week regime of anti-inflammatories would do the trick, but I don't react well to ibuprofin, so I didn't try that. I suppose pineapple juice or cherry juice would have the same effect.

Eating clay to cure MS, skin cancer and ganglion cysts...oh no!! Yes, sounds "out there" because it is!

I had a ganglion cyst on the top of my wrist in my twenties. We tried aspiration a couple of times, it grew back. I ultimately had surgery and it never grew back. It was a super straight forward procedure and was successful.

For mine in my wrists I had them inject saline and then we applied pressure to burst it, after this they never returned. Little bit of pain the day of but within 2 days just fine. Did this in Drs office took all of 15 minutes.

I have not heard of the Red Desert Clay treatment, but I just wanted to let you know that I had a ganglion cyst removal surgery last year for a ganglion cyst in my wrist joint. The surgery itself was very easy and the recovery itself went amazingly well even with an active toddler running around. If you have any questions let me know.

I have had one on each of my wrists. The first one we tried aspiration and it grew back. So I had it surgically removed a few years later the other developed on my other hand and I had it removed by the same doctor. It's been now 10-15 years now and no issues. Surgery was easy and I was playing competitive softball which weeks after