Comments on: Arm Numbness, Tingling Hands and Fingers

By: Jan Modric

Jan Modric — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:23:40 +0000

VickiG,

it sounds serious. I recommend you to visit your doctor right away — it can be an infection, vascular disorder…no point to discuss here, if I can not provide any treatment.

By: VickiG

VickiG — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:22:09 +0000

Hi Jan, I have been experiencing right hand and arm pain, numbness and tingling for about 2 months now. It started with my fingers “spliting” and bleeding and with a very painful sensation to heat and cold. Then my hand began hurting, getting numb and tingling. Now it is going up my right arm and is hurting constantly. Any suggestions? Thank you.

By: janmodric

janmodric — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:13:50 +0000

Jody,

most of these complaints can be related to spinal disorders you’ve mentioned precisely. Such injuries can be often successfully treated by surgery.

By: JODY D.

JODY D. — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:13:15 +0000

Thanks so very much Jan, Yes all of the tests done so far were written verbatim diagnosis’s. I will ask my Orthopedic Doctor to send me to a Neurologist asap. I have moved and do not have one here. I understand that this will be a long road to travel.
thank-you for letting me “pick” your brain.
Jody

By: JODY D.

JODY D. — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:08:33 +0000

Hello again, I forgot to mention that I get really bad headaches on occasion and I can actually feel a grinding in my mid back spinal area. At times when I am showering (with difficulty…lol) and I am facing the warm water, I get an icy feeling, like somone is pouring ice water on my back. On occasion, I feel spasms to different parts of my body.
thanks again…Jody

By: janmodric

janmodric — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:05:27 +0000

JODY D.,

if I get you right, all what you have written above is confirmed by appropriate tests?

Comment:
Symptoms in arms/fingers can be caused by injuries in the neck spine and brachial plexus.
Sciatica means irritation of sciatic nerve, possibly caused by disorders in the lumbar spine. Pain, tingling, weakness, skin color changes, cold limbs can all result from mentioned spinal disorders.
Plantar fasciitis can result from direct injury of the feet and will likely need to be treated separately.
Palpitations can arise from injury of symphatetic nerves for the heart that originate in the thoracic part of “sympathetic plexus”.

It looks that a team of doctors, probably a neurologist and orthopedist will need to make a good plan to make operations in your spine (and maybe shoulder and feet), one by one.

By: JODY D.

JODY D. — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:23:28 +0000

Hello there Jan, I was involved in an airplane incident turbulance, about a year and a half ago. I was lurched from a sitting position to the ceiling and then slammed down to the floor, then back to the ceiling and the floor again, like a “Rag Doll”. The impact effected the entire right side of my body. After a litany of examinations (including 11 MRI’s many X-rays and CT’s) I am experiencing numb and tingling hands and toes, extremely ice cold hands and feet. The fingers (thumb, index and middle fingers) feel like they are “broken”. It hurts to put them in my pockets and have no strength anymore. When I rise out of bed in the AM or after sitting, I almost fall to the floor, with extreme pains in the bottom of my feet. I am now breaking out in an itchy rash with welts and hair loss on my calves from the knees down to my ankles and neck down to waist on the backside of my body. My skin on my hands and feet swell and look shiny at times, the turn white, red and blue at times. There is also an arched shaped red rash on my upper chest. I was also put into the ER December 08 for Heart Palpitations, which occur even to Today when I feel stress.
Here is a list so far of my diagnosis’s:
-Sciatica, both legs.
-Closed fracture of one rt. Rib.
-Sacral FX x 2, Lumar Radiography.
-Heart Palpitations, last week at Dr.’s office Heart Beat at 140.
-Hip Strain/Sprain.
-Fracture of Upper End of Humerus, Cl.
-Rt.Rotator Cuff Impingement and Strain possible Internal Derangement.
-Significant Axial Loading Injuries of the Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbar Spine.
-Herniated Cervical Discs C4-5, C6-7.
-Stenosis and Herniation at C5-6 and a Herniation to the right at C6-7.
-Cervical Root Irritation.
-Strains of entire Cervical Spine.
-Bulging Discs of Cervical Arena.
-Mild Anterior Wedging that is Chronic in nature, with some Disc space narrowing also seen in Mid Thoracic region T6,7 and 8.
-Thoracic Chronic Compression Deformities.
-2 levels of Compression Fractures at T6 and T8.
-Arrhythmias T6-T8.
-Decrease in Height of the Intervertebral Discs at T7-8 and T8-9.
-Thoracic Spine with a Wedge.
-Lumbar Disc Herniation.
-3 Bulging Lumbar Discs.
-Pubic Rami Fractures (Pelvic) front and rear.
-Nerve Slowing to both Hands (NCD Test). Median Distal Motor Latency at the wrist, upper limits 3.8 ms.
-Carpal Tunnel Syndrome with positive Tinsel’s, some Sensory Diminishment to the Thumbs Bilaterally.
-Bilateral Neuropathy to the hands, possible Carpel Tunnel Syndrome, possibly related to the Cervical Spine.
-Raynauds Phenomenon discussed possible RSDS/CRPS.
-Bilateral Plantar Fasciitis.
-Depression.

Jan I need help in coming to a conclusion as to what is going on with me. I feel my body getting weaker by the day. As I type this I can’t feel my 2 index fingers and my hands are ice cold. yesterday I went for another NCD with an EMG test and the Dr. said I only have a mild Carpal Tunnel in my left wrist???
About a year ago, a Doctor, a friend said it looks like a possible Brachial Plexus injury (rash, etc…)and the Dr.’s since do not believe this to be true. I realize everyone involved, including myself is trying to figure out what is wrong.
I have not had any operations to date, but know that they will be coming in my future.
Jan, any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Jody

By: janmodric

janmodric — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:40:59 +0000

Larry,

tingling/numbness in 4th and 5th finger and all the way up to the shoulder after placing forearm (elbow) on the table speaks for an involvement of the ulnar nerve. Besides pressure upon the elbow, a disorder in the cervical spine can be a cause. I recommend you to visit a neurologist or orthopedist.

By: Larry

Larry — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:50:23 +0000

Just lately I’ve been experiencing tingling or numbness down my right arm from my shoulder all the way down to my ring and small fingers. The numbness runs underneath my arm then runs on top of the forearm to my fingers. If I put my hand on a desk to do computer work my whole hand and arm goes numb. I have not been injured and I’m only on the computer for 2 or 3 hrs per day. What could be my problem or what course of action do I need to take?

By: Jan Modric

Jan Modric — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:30:27 +0000

farid 007,

do you have any chronic disease, like diabetes? Anything special happened two weeks ago?