Tingly fingers

[gazz87]

Hi not sure how to really describe this but basically recently I’ve been getting tingly thumbs and fingers on both hands not pins and needles but it just last seconds and goes away. It can happen at random parts of the day or if I for example clap or rub my hands. I’ve recently taken up golf a month ago and this tingly sensation has started happening a couple weeks ago and at first I thought it might have started because I’ve been gripping the club to hard it sounds mad but that’s what I thought at first. But around the same time I woke up in the middle of the night with a dead arm because I was lying on it and it took more than usual to get the feeling back so again I thought it could be that but it’s in both hands so I’ve sort of discarded that being the stem of the issue. It’s starting to really bug me at the moment, I’ve spoken to my doctor and he is sending me for a blood test. I have bad health anxiety at the worst of times and this isn’t really helping!!!

[N1kk1B]

Hello.I have been having exactly the same symptoms as you for the past few months. My bloods are all normal but I'm convinced that it must be something to do with circulation as it's in both arms.

Hopefully someone on the wonderful forum will be able to shed some light on it for us 🤞

[gazz87 in reply to N1kk1B]

Thank you for your reply, I’ll let you know how I go on

[Hidden]

Hi, I started having exactly the same symptoms about 12-18 months ago. Started with the toes and fingers. Tingling feeling. Comes and goes randomly. That was coupled with joint pains. Had my bloods taken twice since that time. I’m APS positive for a long while now and borderline lupus. It might be the anxiety that causes those or Raynauds. Are you diagnosed with APS? And of course have your doc get you tested.

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Would also direct you to the NHS website that specifically mentioned “tingling” :nhs.uk/conditions/antiphosp...

[MaryF Administrator]

Hiya, if this is something new please do go and see your GP and or get in contact with your specialist. I used to have dead arms after sleeping, I had a diagnosis of carpel tunnel syndrome, plus eventually B12 deficiency. Once I also had my slow thyroid looked at, the carpel tunnel situation, became milder, (I am sure this is not the only cause, but it was part of the cause for me). After starting B12 injections, my pins and needles reduced down to zero. Both Thyroid and also B12 problems affect the circulation, testing for Thyroid is very narrow, as often only the TSH is done, and it would appear also that B12 testing is a bit controversial and narrow at times, different areas with different ranges, also in other countries they supplement far earlier than in the UK. MaryF

[KellyInTexas Administrator]

Hello gazz88,

Just checking on you-

What were the results of your blood tests?

I wanted to mention that sometimes our blood can become a little sticky and we can get nerves that don’t work properly because the tiny capillaries that supply blood to them get a little sludgy. ( well, the blood does.)

Professor Hughes told me this himself. If it happens to nerves coming off spine, we get off balance. We get clumsy with hands- I myself drop things. Depends where along the spine. I’ve had permanent damage. This is why it looks like MS.

Other times it causes POTS/ dysautonomia. I have this too.

But- it might be very subtle little quick tingle- very tiny little sludge. Just keep tabs on inr. Not saying this is what is happening- but if all tests are fine- it could be.

( my damage done from years of being ill and not knowing what was wrong with me. )

[gazz87 in reply to KellyInTexas]

Hi thanks for the reply, I believe I’m getting the blood test results back Monday/Tuesday and will post the results. I do have a face to face appointment today with my doctor this afternoon for a basic neurological exam and I’ll see what becomes of that.

I do believe I do have poor circulation but wouldn’t know how I would know about it, these tingles seem to happen in the same place but then in then the next day will be in a different place all day and just come and go, since I’ve been having them I’d prob say more like a buzzing then tingles but find it hard to explain what they’re like!

Thanks again for the reply and I’ll post when I know more

[Hidden in reply to KellyInTexas]

Kellyintexas hey,Was wondering if you can provide some more details about the type of feeling you get ? It is hands and feet ? When sitting ? Or makes no difference ?

[KellyInTexas Administrator in reply to Hidden]

I have a few different feelings- they are not all the same.

Sometimes I may feel like a tiny bit of cool water is running down the inside of a calf.

( this has nothing to do with inr being too low.)

Other times my inr IS too low and my face and body in general may feel a bit “ anesthesia- like a tiny bit of lidocaine everywhere but 80% worn off already- but stronger in brain and face and mouth…slurry words… tingly tongue

Other times I may have twitching- visible twitching- will bounce a jumper up and down - at crook of arm. This is where nerve damage has occurred from DVT’s. Or flow is poor from another one starting to form.

Other times I just feel tingly- all over but in a low hum way when inr is very low. I’m very sick when this happens from APS systemic symptoms.

It’s very hard to explain…

[Hidden in reply to KellyInTexas]

Thanks for sharing 🙏🏻

[gazz87]

I got the bloods back and everything are fine, but I’m still getting these weird feelings around body like a buzzing feeling/someone is slightly tickling me with a fine paint brush if that makes sense that last a second and goes away! Which is really doing my head in, my doctor doesn’t really have an answer but still doesn’t help my anxiety about it

[Hidden in reply to gazz87]

Just got my bloods back, also all fine and no difference from previous labs. Also still get the same feeling you describe 🤓

[WendyWoo50]

Hi, strangely enough I have been getting these pins & needles in my forearms and hands. And what I can only describe as ‘electric shock waves’ rippling through my body (mostly in the evenings) much worse if I feel cold. In the winter my son gave me a heated electric throw and that really helped.My GP has referred me to a neurologist.

July 2020 I think I had Covid. But the nearest test appointment available was 3 hours in a car. I wasn’t well enough to do that so never had a test. I wonder if the strange feelings were Long Covid as my fatigue is 100% worse now as are the muscle pains and it’s harder to walk.

Anyone else with these pins n needles etc had Covid? 💋 x