Originally Posted by: sailorjimyea my wrist hurts also. It is bumming me out.. I just picked back up on the guitar a few months ago after not playing for a long time. And with so much information available I have been getting so much better at the guitar than I have ever been, But then come the wrist. I have been living on Iburophen. I have been putting off going to see the doctor because I am affraid what he is going to say.. beisdes playing the guitar I love to sail.. your hands get abused, I am not a fair weather sailor. The rougher it get the more I like it. But I guess in the long run if I don't do any thing about it. I might just find myself sitting infront of the tube every night becase I won't be able to do any thing else.

If it hurts, then it's bad. When warming up, practicing, and playing, if you ever feel anything that can be described as pain then it's bad. Sometimes it can be solved as easily as an altered posture or technique, other times it's more like what Schmange described and is a serious physical problem. All the same, when it hurts then it's not to be taken lightly.