Firstly, Happy New Year to you all. May 2025 bring good health and happiness and a wee bit of wealth would be nice too!!
Anyway, A few weeks before Christmas I started getting 'episodes' of pins & needles not only in m right hand but also on my lips and tongue, particularly the right side.
I've had carpel tunnel in both hands and had ops on both in the past so am aware of the hands having the 'fizzy' feeling but the same sensation on my lips and tongue is way different and very weird.
Has anyone experienced this?
This morning I took the plunge and called the surgery as my big fear always is having a stroke and knowing the AF puts me at a higher risk for that, I felt I needed some reassurance. I was asked to go see a doc immediately and said doctor has ruled out stoke thanks god but has arranged an ECG for Monday afternoon and I've to wait for an X-ray appointment to check the cervical thingy n the back of my neck as I have for ages had severe 'cramp' like pain on one side....very painful.
Anyway, after all this, I'd be grateful for any advice whilst I wait for further instructions from the doctors! By the way, I don't feel 'ill' at all just the usual AF stuff!
stay well folks,
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Unsure what to say ........ some of your post I can't identify with ............ some I can. So I'll just comment on my own aches/ pains.
I get ( and have had for quite some months - maybe longer ) a tingling/ numbness/ pins and needles right down my right arm to my right hand thumb and first two fingers. I have consulted a sports injury massage therapist and she has given me much improvement. BUT, it is still there.
At first I thought it was all starting from my right shoulderbecause over 20 years ago I fell off a bungalow roof and land shoulder joint first into/onto a timber deck. Progressive therapy has eliminated this as a cause. Next, in recent times, I have had osteoarthritis diagnosed in both shoulders, again, the right shoulder has been eliminated BUT THE LEFT has not. Thirdly - and I don't know the medical name of the bone but if you feel the top of ones back there appears to be a big lumpy bone at the top of the spine. I think this is the source of my problems and it is the point where my therapist is concentrating.
Almost guaranteed is a sleepless night. I try and sleep on my right side but unconsciously during the night I end up on my left side and this seems to trigger the pain down the right arm - as I've described. This then generates the tingling/ numbness/ pins and needles right down the right arm. Just soooo damn weird. I have considered possibly a carpel tunnel problem, but, somehow the symptoms don't totally fit. I have never been able to sleep on my back.
Lips and tongue ........ can't relate to that at all.
So, hey ho .... new year .... onward and upward. I've had heart checks galore and all is well. Waiting for confirmation of an Asthma diagnosis. AF is highly controlled and not emerging in any way shape or form. Just living with shoulder and arm pain.
Meanwhile, Happy New Year to you and I hope you can sort your pain/pins and needles out.
I have spondylitis of C3 and 4 and have similar symptoms if I have laid down awkwardly or make sudden sharp movements . Possibly the same but at least you're on track to discovering more about what's going on.
Best wishes
Ps try not to sleep with too many pillows,I was told it can aggravate my problem.
It might help to explain what may be happening in your 'cervical thingy'.
The spine is mapped into 3 sections in order to identify each vertebra. The section from shoulders to skull is the Cervical Spine - 'cervix' meaning neck.
Running up the centre of the spine is a superhighway of nerves which radiate out into the surrounding tissues. With age, injury or certain conditions the protective discs keeping the vertebrae slightly apart may begin to slip slightly out of position or break down, allowing the vertebrae to nip some of those nerves. This is a layman's simplified explanation of Spondylosis, a different condition to that which Dawn (wilsond) mentions - Spondylitis of C3 & C4 - the cervical vertebrae 3rd and 4th from the top. Spondylitis is a problem with the immune system attacking the spinal tissues. However the symptoms of both conditions can be similar.
I hope that helps; I wouldn't be at all surprised if your diagnosis is one or the other. They're very common.
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