sorry i have not been replying ... well i took off guitar for about 2 day and i could play for abouyt a week and then the pain came back :mad: and its really hard to get any where with every 5 min my hand hurting. the pain is not so bad that i have to suddanly have to drop the guitar its that it gives me a feeling that if i play any more i might wreack it for like. and anouther problum is that im only 13 and i have devoted my life to guitar and im not just about to quit to a wrist problum. i dont have big bumps on my wrist tho. and i dont warm up before i play because i am self taught and dont know any of that stuff like warm ups and stuff. well to answer some of your questions, its my neck arm that hurts umm i looked on the internet to see the simtomes and i dont match the carpel tonn... (how ever your spell it) thingy. if some one has some thing please tell me im dieing to know and i really badly want to get to playing back to some heavy metal metallica again soon :o