Left Handed Mice

EffBee

EffBee

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I will get on my hobby horse and warn everyone about the dangers of mice and computer games. If you start to get pain/discomfort in your wrist and fingers while using a mouse - STOP and rest. Ease off your usage long term. Don't clutch the mouse too hard when you excited. Do not rest with your arm in such a way as to put any weight on your wrist. This is serious! Believe it or not you can permanently injure yourself quite seriously. Warning over.

I was born right handed and have been a right handed mouse user up till last January.

Unfortunately stupidly playing games for up to 18 hours per day, for days or even weeks at a time and ignoring discomfort, then pain, then even more stupidly on one occasion using a mouse while sitting on the floor with my arm up and wrist weighing down on a sharp computer table edge (there was a good reason - I forget why now) caused a bout of tendonitis that I am still trying to recover from. Three months after the initial injury which flared up almost overnight after the table fiasco I was mostly out of pain and had regained partial use of my right arm/wrist/hand. For much of that three months my hand and forearm were swollen and very painful, my wrist rigid, and hand/arm so weak at one point that I couldn't even hold a teaspoon.

I daren't use a mouse right handed yet. Perhaps never again.

I have learned to be completely left handed in everything I do which is actually quite useful now my right arm is getting back to normal again.

But, does anyone know of a decent left handed mouse anywhere or are all of them designed to be either totally symmetrical for left/right use, or right handed.

Memo to self: musn't wreck left arm as well :)

Thanks.
 
The Razer copperhead is ambidextourous, so you can use it with your left and when your right hand fully heals you can use it with that hand as well. If that wasn't enough it's also the best mouse on retail. Can't go that much wrong imo.
 
I'm a lefty, and I can recommend the Logitech mx610 left hander. I used to use a copperhead, but found the ridge down the side uncomfortable.
 
Ooh, I didn't know Logitech had a new leftie mouse and UCUK have it in stock too. I'm sure I still have an original Logitech leftie serial mouse somewhere as I couldn't bring myself to chuck it.

The OP could consider using a Wacom (or similar) tablet and stylus for non-gaming use as holding a stylus like a pen is more natural than gripping a mouse.

Jonathan
 
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Thank you - I'll look into those suggestions.

Yes it was definitely excessive computer mouse usage that did the damage Tony.
 
Tony Williams said:
Are you sure it was the mouse causing the weakness in your wrist or something else? :rolleyes:
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Why the rolleyes?

I have had RSI in my right shoulder due to bad posture whilst gaming.
Sitting upright helps a lot - As does reacting to the first signs of pain.

That was whilst using various logitechs, but crouched over the keyboard - Mouse not in the right position compared to the shoulder/arm.

I never had any pain for years - As EffBee advised - It can show itself overnight.

EffBee - One of my leftie mates used an MX700 for a couple of years as it was the best mouse, just uncomfortable to use.
He now uses the MX610 and loves it to bits.
(In fact, he loves it so much he bought 2 of them!)

An extremelty happy leftie with it. :)
 
TBH a track ball is a better option...you cant get RSI from it since your only using your fingers plus you dont require as much space for it as you do for a mouse. I have used a logitech marble track ball for the past 5 years and they are great and great for gaming to..
 
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