经常发短信会得手腕综合症

"It's not even good texts. It's like 'hey, hey, what's up? what's up? Not much.'Like it, just ridiculous texting I'm learning not to do anymore,"

At her worst, Annie Levitz was sending 100 text messages a day - 4,000 in a single month. Then, the pain started.

"I started like losing feeling in my hands and they'd go numb. I'd be going to pick up dishes and things and they'd just fall out of my hands,"

Doctors diagnosed Annie, who is a junior at Stevenson High School, with carpal tunnel syndrome. So severe, braces and cortisone injections aren't enough. She'll have to undergo surgery.

Annie's mom says simply taking her daughter's phone away isn't an option.

"Sure, I've thought about it. But if you have teens you know that doesn't work. That's their whole social life, plus that's how you get in touch with them,"

Experts say just 3 percent of adults have diagnosed cases of carpel tunnel syndrome.In teens, it’s almost unheard of. But doctors say, too much texting, is becoming a textbook way to get it. 

When you, if you get tendonitis in the shoulder or in the wrist and the doctors say “well, don’t do the activity, put it at rest, well, it’s the same thing.” You know, don’t do the activity that’s constantly causing the problem.

The kid with carpal tunnel is all the talk at school, but if Annie's friends are any indication, the lesson may have longevity of a text message.

"They are teenagers so I think most people, like a minute, oh, I’m fine. But it’s gonna still happening."

"I know it's a problem so I may watch it, but I still text a lot.and I probably will, still text.

As for Annie, she says she's cut the number of texts she sends a month in half.

Now, you down to?

"Two thousand."

"Oh~~~~~"

"I know, it's not good enough but I'm trying!"