A DROITWICH Spa woman has told The Advertiser of how she wakes up every morning with an unbearable pain that doctors cannot cure.

Caroline Rowe, from Clayhall Road, believes that Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) is to blame for the excruciating pain she gets in her wrists. However, doctors have so far failed to diagnose a definite condition, leaving the 37-year-old desperate for help and carrying a warning for us all.

After working as a designer using a Computer Aided Design (CAD) system since she was 20, years of clicking a mouse button and moving the cursor across the screen have taken its toll.

Following a slight ache in her knuckles and pins and needles in her hands, the condition has slowly worsened and has left Caroline in very bad pain and unable to lift anything heavy and now she even has trouble opening a bottle top.

Caroline has had many trips to the doctor over the last three years but no one seems able to help or commit to a decision on the condition.

She said: "It seems as though doctors and specialists seem to be able to tell me what the condition isn't but cannot tell me what it is. I feel until people start recognising RSI as a real problem it will be difficult for me to find a cure. The pain is unbearable and has left me in tears. I feel extreme heat through my arms and cannot even move them.

"I have had test after test and lots have things have been ruled out. Doctors seem to recognise that my work has caused the problem but don't seem willing to name RSI."

Caroline has tried many different remedies to help ease the daily pain but none seem to work. She has tried everything from acupuncture to a spiritual healer and will now be trying Droitwich's Brine Baths.

She is now hoping an Advertiser reader can offer help or know of a potential cure.

Determined Caroline has also issued a warning to fellow residents in the hope they don't suffer the same problem.

"I am worried for the children who learn how to use computers from a very early age these days. People need to be aware of how they sit at desks and how they lift things at work.

"The problem needs to be recognised by people and doctors as it is on the up."