PC Mouse giving me arthritis! Oh how I wish the Apple mice weren't such shit and didn't break!

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I recently switched from the transparent whole-thing-is-a-button Apple laser mouse to the two-buttons-and-a-scrollwheel Logitech mouse.

It's only been a few months and I was very happy with the new mouse. I really like the scroll wheel, but I notice a shooting pain in that index finger that is used all the time now due to the limiting two-button design. I guess I have to train myself NOT to use the scrollwheel (index finger) and to click on the right button with my middle and third finger, similar to how I used to operate the Apple mouse, but it is difficult because my index finger used to naturally fall where that fuckin' scroll wheel is. I disabled right-click so that I wouldn't always have to use my index finger. I've been trying for weeks already and it seems the two-button design intuitively leads your index finger to doing most of the work.

Do any of you have this experience? Is it mostly due to the scroll wheel?

― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Friday, 22 April 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

there is a mac style mouse with scroll wheel and two buttons:

http://www.dvforge.com/themouse.shtml

― Ed (dali), Friday, 22 April 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

But the scroll wheel and buttons are the problem.

― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Friday, 22 April 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

I believe that mouse has the same whole body click style that the apple mouse does.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 22 April 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Except that it has a scroll wheel right where my index finger would land, thus creating the same situation I've currently got going on, right?

― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Friday, 22 April 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

When I use my two-button mouse, I have my index finger & middle finger straddling the scroll wheel. My index finger alternates between the left button and the scroll wheel, and use my middle finger for right-clicking. Clearly, that's because I give my middle finger a LOT of exercise.

I LOVE four-button mouses.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 22 April 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

"Mouses"?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 22 April 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

How about a trackball?

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Friday, 22 April 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

USE YOUR LEFT HAND

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 22 April 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

I have the same problem with scroll mice, but I couldn't work well without on. So now I use two mice, one on the left and one on the right. Trading back and forth.

― meese, Friday, 22 April 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

Also, get thee to a doctor if you are having 'shooting pain'. Tendonitus, carpal tunnel syndrom, etc are things that deserve to be looking at by a professional. Seriously.

― meese, Friday, 22 April 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

Also, for those folks interested in DVForge mice, you should know that the owner has a history of bad. Caveat emptor.

― meese, Friday, 22 April 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

I use the scroll all day everyday I'll never go back to a Mac.

― andy --, Friday, 22 April 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

I used Macs at a couple of assignments recently...and I can't say I'm sorry these companies didn't request me again.

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 23 April 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

some of your scrolling can be eliminated by clicking the wheel down and using the floaty-scroll-o-matic dealybopper.

ive been trying to make better use of the home, end, pg up and pg down keys as well, to save some wear and tear

― ronny longjohns (ronny longjohns), Saturday, 23 April 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

I swear by this thing:
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/images/trackball/ps_trackballopt.jpg
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/productdetails.aspx?pid=012

It's better for you if a regular mouse irritates your hand, because you don't have to move it so much...your hand lays across the top of it fairly naturally, and it's even pretty easy to use the scroll wheel. It takes a bit of effort to get used to the trackball if you haven't used one before, but once you get it down it's fantastic...and amazing in first-person PC games like Half-Life.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Saturday, 23 April 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

how I wish the Apple mice weren't such shit and didn't break!

i've found the newer apple mice - ie the white ones - to be of superior quality to the black ones, which broke in a variety of interesting yet unhelpful ways.

YMMV, though ...

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 23 April 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

MOUSES!

Sorry - MEECES!

― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 23 April 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

that looks like a horrible idea

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Why?

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

Sounds like a good way to get carpal tunnel.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

I have been trying to get my employers to get me a vertical mouse for some time. A colleague upstairs has one and they're great (I get all carpally quite a lot).

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

sixteen years pass...

Sixteen years on, I still struggle with understanding mouse design. I bought a Logitech MX Master 3, which is nicely made as all the review say but like all other mice, when my hand sits snugly in my palm, the scrollwheel is nowhere near the tip of my finger, which make me have to lift my fingers up and back to scroll, which over time has made me develop a carpal boss, I think. Why do no mice have the scrollwheel right at the tip of the mouse, where it would be most comfortable to use? I guess I have quite long fingers, but not freakishly so. Maybe I should have bought a Magic Mouse with the scroll anywhere thing, but they're so skinny they don't feel good in my hand otherwise.

― Alba, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 13:59 (four years ago)

Not to derail but the Kensington trackball is a great device, super tactile and accurate.

― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 14:28 (four years ago)

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