I woke up this morning and noticed I'm getting the calluses back on my right hand and thumb. FINALLY! When I started back in 09' I had lost calluses on both hands. It hurt to play for about 4 months. I've noticed the tone of my finger picking getting better and I could play longer. This is another breakthrough for me. I'm excited about this. For me this is a big deal. Ok, I'll shut up now and get my guitar

it took you 5 years to get callouses back?
 
were you playing like only on 5th Saturdays of the months?????

it took you 5 years to get callouses back?
I got em' back on my left hand pretty fast. I'm talking serious calluses. It took 40 years to get them where they were before I got sick. I completely lost them. 

I'm peeved/confounded because I have been playing bass almost daily for the past couple months and figured once I picked up the six string again I'd be flyin'.
 
Nope. Hands/forearms/tendons are bunching up and the strings feel like razor blades jamming into the ends of my fingers? WTF?!

Beepster
I'm peeved/confounded because I have been playing bass almost daily for the past couple months and figured once I picked up the six string again I'd be flyin'.
 
Nope. Hands/forearms/tendons are bunching up and the strings feel like razor blades jamming into the ends of my fingers? WTF?!

minions. yep.  little yellow minions eating away at your muscle tissue.
 

lol... I guess anytime in the past when I've played a lot of bass I was also playing a lot of guitar so I got the benefits of both. Now I feel like I've got ham hands.
 
oof

 "It hurt to play for about 4 months"
 
Maybe you should have stopped playing after 3 months, and when did you sleep?

Beepster
lol... I guess anytime in the past when I've played a lot of bass I was also playing a lot of guitar so I got the benefits of both. Now I feel like I've got ham hands.
 
oof

mmmm...ham....closely related to becan....

Hmm...  Never got callouses on my picking hand.  You are talking about picking with that hand aren't you? 

don't eat my hands, bro!