How can I stop trackpad from hurting/burning my fingertips?

I had the wireless track pad and loved it but I had to stop using it because my fingers got so so sensitive.

(so that rules out that it's because of the heat from the laptop)

Unfortunately, though some suggested it, I'm getting the sensitivity from the magic mouse too.

Was using the regular mouse for the last couple of years with no problems at all but within

a short time of getting the magic mouse, (new iMac so new mouse) the sensitivity is back.

Yea this seems to be an ongoing problem for many- for years!. Why hasn't Apple done anything to address it?!

I'm inclined to go along with Peggy4th's hypothesis as partway explanation.

I Just wanted to document that I am having the same problem. All the fingertips on my right hand feel as if they are burning. My entire hand is peeling and I started to lose my fingernails. I have a Mac book, iPad, and iPhone. I feel as if the burning sensation is worse after using my iPad. Right now I've been using a stylus on everything, but I forgot it at work and used my iPad without it. Immediately I felt the burning to the point I couldn't work anymore. I'm so disappointed.

I'm so sorry to hear about this ad thought I would share something with you. I found that using a stylus helps quite a bit. I've been working almost exclusively on my Samsung Galaxy Note 4. For some stupid reason I am using the MBPro for this reply and already I've got a lot of pain. Anything "touch" is terrible now :-(

Glad to read all this- sort of- I know I am sensitive, but now I know I am not crazy!

I have 10 burning finger tips and they are all wrinkled, so its not just the touchpad. Also, when I hold the laptop on my lap, my thighs burn - even with pants, a lap desk or pillow between me and the 2015 Macbook Pro. I tried gloves and the keyboard still burns.

I'm going to try a keyboard protector and a mouse. Also, a lead blanket over my legs has crossed my mind more than once because even when the laptop is on a desk, 10-15" above my thighs, they burn.

Hi Everyone,

I am also experiencing the same issues reported here with my Macbook pro 2015. It started off with the trackpad, pain in finger tips, then became irritation, raw, burning, tingling, then vibrating and radiating heat and pain in my hands. Now, even when I have stopped using the mac for about an hour still there.

I tried the magic mouse and the problems continued on there. At first I thought it was a muscular issue and saw a chiropractor, acupuncturist, physio, doctor...

Eventually I switched to the wire mouse after trying several different magic mouse's. I'm sad to say that now after a month the problem has continued with the wire mouse as well.

I'm quite concerned about this article above (thank you for posting) because I recognize many of the other symptoms that are reported with Toxic poisoning related to that. Dizziness, tiredness, confused, memory loss.

I'm wondering if we should start a Crowdfunding campaign to get some research done?

Jon

Same problem but does not burn as much as feels as if I'm developing a callus from the inside of my fingers causing pressure on the bone.

Can you be more specific as what do you mean by "palm cover" from Amazon.

I had the same issue with my finger tips. Burning, tingling, raw sensation when using the trackpad on my Macbook Pro 2012. I suffered through it for 4 years, until one day when I brought my fingertips under a magnifying glass and noticed a lot of micro cuts. I finally had enough. I decided against buying the Magic Mouse because rubbing my fingertips against a surface was the last thing I wanted to do. I went with a different brand and I bought a bluetooth mouse that has a rubber scroll wheel in the center. I am pleased to say I no longer have the burning/raw sensation in my fingertips anymore. 🙂

I wondered if any Medical people had posted about burning fingers from trackpads, and did a search:

from:

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Dermatology/What-causes-severe-burning-in-my-finger tips-when-using-my-Macbook-pro/show/1804…

I really feel for Users who cannot use these devices without irritation, numbness, or pain.

Millions of people use these devices, and do not have any such symptoms. Based on that it is unlikely that these computers are actually causing large scale poisoning, electrocution, or heat burning of people who are otherwise completely healthy and allergy-free. (If these computers were causing such problems, it would affect millions of users.)

What is believable is that these devices are exacerbating underlying conditions in some people -- causing those conditions to become much worse. It is also quite possible that for some Users, these symptoms are in fact Repetitive Strain Injuries (but not necessarily identical to carpal tunnel syndrome, the best known Repetitive Strain injury).

I am not lost in any forests.

I can use those devices with impunity. If they were causing most otherwise healthy people problems, they would have been withdrawn long a go.

I think you and your medical doctor should have a chat. But most of all, if these devices cause you pain, stop using them!

There are probably as many different reasons as there are people who can't use them without problems. Trying to find THE reason is pointless without including yourself in the equation.

i am fairly confident it's something electric related, or chemical, or wave related etc. some sort of physics or chemical thing. it's definitely not muscular. i can't say its heat cause my laptop never really gets hot, unless its some sort of low level weird heat, which is perhaps possible.

if any of those were true, they would be affecting everybody, not just you and the comparatively small number of people who have posted on this thread.

i would agree. i've been busy this semester at school, typing and copying and pasting quite a bit, and i use the track pad only. although, i did the same last semester and i don't remember it being this much last spring.

so, you think people who discussed this in 2012 or 2013 made it up? so, you believe every experience or condition always affects everybody? i seem to see so many examples in the media of rare conditions all over the place, from the famous lou gehrig's decease to many more.

are you sure that's a sensible argument to make?

you really think conditions have to affect everybody to be "true?"

have you never seen special needs people in your life???

and how do you know they're "small?" i just happened upon this forum when i finally decided to google it after perhaps a year having the experience.

you might need to re-examine your logic a bit there, or perhaps think a little clearer before you post!!

These forums are a lightning rod for people with computer issues. When an issue is widespread, the forums are inundated with users posting "me, too" responses. That has not happened on this thread. As I said, a "comparatively small number of people who have posted on this thread". Apple sold 20 Million Macs last year, most had trackpads.

I am really sorry that I have been unable to answer your question with something you want to hear, such as a conspiracy.

What I have been trying to say to you is that some possible combination of physical, electromagnetic, chemical, heat, or receptive stress causes this problem for YOU. It may not be the same cause for the next guy with a complaint. You cannot leave yourself out of this equation -- whatever causes these issues does not seem to affect me, or tens of thousands of others.

You are extremely unlikely to find anything anywhere that says something like, "aha, it is clearly caused by gamma rays, and that is the problem."

When people all over the world have been thinking about this problems for as long as this thread has been open, In my opinion the most likely cause is that this may be a newer form of repetitive stress injury.