Numbness, pins and needles

joyful164

:?: Hi

How many of you suffer from tingling, pins and needles, numbness and burning in their hands and fingers. Is this normal?

Most of these sensations are on my left hand. I thought not so bad because I am right handed, but this morning the same feelings are coming into my right hand affecting thumb and forefinger and index finger, so it looks. The pain from my left arm is now spreading down my right arm.

Is this what is known as nerve damage?

Joyful

skezier

Hi Joy,
Prior to the neck jabs I had all of that and mine was nerves and inflamation. Have you got any appointments with the hospital, especially for pain control? You probably have said but my eyes are none too good so I haven't seen it, sorry :oops: Take care, Cris.

elnafinn

Hi Joy

I get all those symptoms you mention in my leg due to sciatica. I have a slight curvature of the spine and that is where the trouble is stemming from. I do not get much numbness thank goodness as I have a feeling that should looked at without too much delay, if that is the case.

I had the injections in my neck like Cris but the trouble seems to have reared its ugly head again, not desperate at the mo and not all the time but not going away!! I did not get pins and needles in the arm etc only pain in the neck.

Keep smiling and keep on keeping on and you too, Cris.
Love
Elna x

skezier

Hi Elna

They are redoing mine next month............ I hope she will use sedative! She doing the lumber and the neck......... Oh I can't wait........ Mind she has told me since they do work she will do her best to re-do me before they totally ware off....... It's good of her really, I just wish she'd use a bit of sedative eh?! :shock:

Luv

Cris x

Joy they can help if you can get to see the right people and I hoipe you do soon. Take care,Cris

woodbon

Hello,Don't worry you'r not alone. You sound as if you might have a nerve problem simalar to mine, which is the oa in the neck and also carpel tunnel. It may be a good thing to ask your doctor about, especially if you wake with pins and needles in your hand at night, as something may be able to help you. Love Sue

jaspercat

Hi Joyful, I have these problems too, they started off in my toes and feet, so much so that I cannot even tell whether I am walking properly and often turn my ankles over, now the tips of my fingers are going now, but my gp is trying to help things and will refer me to someone soon, hope you feel better soon love Jaspercatxx

joyful164

Dear Skezier, Elna, Chris, Woodbon, Jaspercat

Thanks everyone. I have an appointment with the pain clinic on 4th June and shall insist they do something, because I have woken up everyday for the last 6 months with this. I told the consultant the appointment before the last one 4 weeks ago that I was suffering with my arms and hands with the pins and needles. I was batted backwards and forwardsfrom physio and gp and nothing worked.

Suppose to having MRI scan too. Had ordinary xray but only showed wear and tear. I suffered with my neck since I was 23 (when I slipped a disk) and now 64 and have had treatment on it periodically. So perhaps now, an injection will do the trick.

Thanks.

Joyful

skezier

Hi Joy,

It is a shame you haven't had the MRI before as it would give them a better idea whats gong on but they are very good at pain control and with luck they will be able to help you as much as mine here have me. I have my next jabs the same day as you so will think of you, though probably not exactly while she is doing them!

Take care,
Cris

joyful164

skezier wrote:

Hi Joy,

It is a shame you haven't had the MRI before as it would give them a better idea whats gong on but they are very good at pain control and with luck they will be able to help you as much as mine here have me. I have my next jabs the same day as you so will think of you, though probably not exactly while she is doing them!

Take care,
Cris

Thanks. I need something done soon. I am going away on holiday 23rd June for a few days. We are suppose to be camping, and I am not looking forward to it at all this time. We have quite a nice comfortable and warm tent, and we have good beds and quilts etc. We take a heater with us and where we are staying we are quite close to all the amenities including a very nice restaurant, so I have told the OH that we get all our meals

At the time to booking though, I wasn't as bad as I am now. Don't want to miss it because we meet up with all our car club friends and have a great do. Several of the other members are afflicted too, so I have to make the effort. It will be fine.

Goodnight Have a good night

Joyful

katykat

Hi Joyful
I just saw your question and funnily enough I had come onto the site to ask the same question. Like you I had/still have pins and needles, woken every morning at 4 am with indescribable tingly sensations that sometimes went right through my body making me squirm and wriggle.( This still happens.)

It went on for 2 years until one of the GPs sent me for a physio assessment. Within a month I had had an MRI scan and was sent to a neurosurgeon who basically showed me the scan results and told me I had spinal stenosis and he couldn't help as I had bone spurs on almost ever level in my spine which press onto the spinal cord (the numbness and tingling symtoms).

He sent me to a pain clinic where the same happened. I was sent away with a prescription for Lyrica (an anti epileptic drug) and told to attend 3 months later. Up to now the appointment has been cancelled 3 times and it is now 7 months on. My hands go dead every night but no one cares about what I assume is carpel tunnel, as the rest of me is such a mess.

I feel so alone with all of this and wish I knew someone else with the same probs. Just to be able to chat to someone who understands what is going on. I take lyrica twice a day, diclofenac 3 times a day, omeprazole once a day. I can top up with paracetamol if I want to.

I feel abandoned as the lyrica is only prescribed by a consultant - who is too busy to see me. I wish you luck and hope that the doctors you see are more supportive and explain properly to you what is going on and why.
Hugs Kate xx

joyful164

katykat wrote:

Hi Joyful
I just saw your question and funnily enough I had come onto the site to ask the same question. Like you I had/still have pins and needles, woken every morning at 4 am with indescribable tingly sensations that sometimes went right through my body making me squirm and wriggle.( This still happens.)

It went on for 2 years until one of the GPs sent me for a physio assessment. Within a month I had had an MRI scan and was sent to a neurosurgeon who basically showed me the scan results and told me I had spinal stenosis and he couldn't help as I had bone spurs on almost ever level in my spine which press onto the spinal cord (the numbness and tingling symtoms).

He sent me to a pain clinic where the same happened. I was sent away with a prescription for Lyrica (an anti epileptic drug) and told to attend 3 months later. Up to now the appointment has been cancelled 3 times and it is now 7 months on. My hands go dead every night but no one cares about what I assume is carpel tunnel, as the rest of me is such a mess.

I feel so alone with all of this and wish I knew someone else with the same probs. Just to be able to chat to someone who understands what is going on. I take lyrica twice a day, diclofenac 3 times a day, omeprazole once a day. I can top up with paracetamol if I want to.

I feel abandoned as the lyrica is only prescribed by a consultant - who is too busy to see me. I wish you luck and hope that the doctors you see are more supportive and explain properly to you what is going on and why.
Hugs Kate xx

Sorry Kate, I have only just come on to the site. So sorry to hear about your results. I take the Lyrica twice a day, don't know diclofenac. Yes omeprazole. Told not take co-codomol because I am on Bupranorphine 52.5 mg and like you just top up with paracetamol. The fingers on my left hand feel like they are open and raw now and hot and tingly when I touch them. This feeling goes right up my left arm to my shoulder. Very swollen also.
Thank goodness my right hand is not so bad. I am seeing pain clinic on 4 th June. In all the 4 years since this all started, never once until now has a MRI scan been mentioned, yet I read that many on the posters have had them instantly. I am pressing for this on the 4th June. I need answers. I cannot drive myself anywhere, I'm fed up with falling asleep every five minutes.

I keep saying to myself that I am not going to complain any more. There are others far worse off than me. It is awful though when you know you are getting worse but nothing is being done about it. Perhaps in another 10 years time, there will be a reasonably priced cure. The NHS just doesn't want to spend the money on us.
Do hope you can find something to help make yourself comfortable.
Hugs from Joyful Would be nice if we could all meet up and party!!

katykat

Hi again Joyful. Thanks for replying to my post.
I am so surprised that you haven't in 4 years had an MRI scan.:? I thought 2 years was bad but 4 is disgraceful really. Our symptoms are similar but what you describe about your hands is different. That sounds awful you poor thing!

I think it is well worth the NHS doing an MRI scan as the diagnosis is pretty much there straight away. In my own case I think the symptoms and pain etc is secondary to the isolation. Also I am coming up to 58 years of age and getting a bit old to bother with. I don't mind that as young people still have all their lives ahead of them and need all the help they can get to make life better for them.

Still it would be good to find some kind of community where others had the same problems.

I really hope that you are scanned soon and able to get the help you need. Fingers crossed for you.
Hugs Kate xx

joyful164

katykat wrote:

Hi again Joyful. Thanks for replying to my post.
I am so surprised that you haven't in 4 years had an MRI scan.:? I thought 2 years was bad but 4 is disgraceful really. Our symptoms are similar but what you describe about your hands is different. That sounds awful you poor thing!

I think it is well worth the NHS doing an MRI scan as the diagnosis is pretty much there straight away. In my own case I think the symptoms and pain etc is secondary to the isolation. Also I am coming up to 58 years of age and getting a bit old to bother with. I don't mind that as young people still have all their lives ahead of them and need all the help they can get to make life better for them.

Still it would be good to find some kind of community where others had the same problems.

I really hope that you are scanned soon and able to get the help you need. Fingers crossed for you.
Hugs Kate xx

Hi Kate

I think your right there about being the right side of 50. I am 65 in July and my working days are gone, so the it is not worth the expense to try anything outrageously expensive like the new drugs which areon the market. Also, I suppose they don't really want the expense of an MRI scan for me either. I will let you know after the 4th June if I am right.

Joyful