Hand health mystery

[lunalelle]

I figured this would be as good a place as any to ask people. I mean, it's one thing to google your symptoms and another to describe them to actual people. Hopefully someone will have had a similar experience, because I have a doctor's appt in about three weeks, and in the meantime, all I have are question marks.

My hands have been bothering me for about a month and a half to two months. My right hand is bothered more than my left. Some nights (not every night), I wake up several times because one of my hands is tingling with pins and needles. So I turn over and go back to sleep only to wake up later because the other one is tingling. My sleeping patterns haven't changed, yet this has only been happening for a few months.

During the day, at different levels of intensity from nothing to moderate, I have a bit of numbness (not complete numbness, but enough to notice) around the knuckles of my right hand, and the lower part of some of the fingers. Sometimes, it just plain feels weird - it's not painful, but I don't have a descriptor for it. Sometimes, it gets a little warm, but that may just be psychosomatic. The muscles weaken, and it takes more effort and concentration to fully extend my fingers. There seems to be a little swelling in between the joints (not on), but it's possible that I've always been a little bigger on the right side than the left. After all, I use that hand more.

I have not experienced any pain. But this is unlike anything I've ever experienced before.

I am 22.

Now what's wrong with me?

[Mira]

Sounds like lupus.

Seriously, though, I have no idea. Sounds a bit like tendinitis, but you are way too young and I would expect there to be at least a little pain. Hope you have a good doctor.

[Mantorok]

Take your pick:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_neuropathy

[Napoleon the Clown]

May be something circulatory. The sleep part sounds like it, at least.

[Marc]

Jul 24, 2009 3:27:27 GMT -5 lunalelle said:

I figured this would be as good a place as any to ask people. I mean, it's one thing to google your symptoms and another to describe them to actual people. Hopefully someone will have had a similar experience, because I have a doctor's appt in about three weeks, and in the meantime, all I have are question marks.

My hands have been bothering me for about a month and a half to two months. My right hand is bothered more than my left. Some nights (not every night), I wake up several times because one of my hands is tingling with pins and needles. So I turn over and go back to sleep only to wake up later because the other one is tingling. My sleeping patterns haven't changed, yet this has only been happening for a few months.

During the day, at different levels of intensity from nothing to moderate, I have a bit of numbness (not complete numbness, but enough to notice) around the knuckles of my right hand, and the lower part of some of the fingers. Sometimes, it just plain feels weird - it's not painful, but I don't have a descriptor for it. Sometimes, it gets a little warm, but that may just be psychosomatic. The muscles weaken, and it takes more effort and concentration to fully extend my fingers. There seems to be a little swelling in between the joints (not on), but it's possible that I've always been a little bigger on the right side than the left. After all, I use that hand more.

I have not experienced any pain. But this is unlike anything I've ever experienced before.

I am 22.

Now what's wrong with me?

If thy right hand offend thee...

Seriously, though, from the sounds of it, you're sleeping on your hand at night. During the day, if you're sitting at a computer, you might be sitting at a weird angle that's causing your arm to fall asleep-the same thing happens to me at home, because my table where my computer is at is too high.

However, I am not a doctor, so you should take what I say with a grain of salt. This is what those symptoms sound like to me. If you're really concerned, you should see your doctor about it. Yes, I know you probably already know that, but I feel better saying it to make sure.

Marc