Feeling frustrated

[Olmettig]

Hi everyone,

Today I woke up achy and stiff, but this evening on my way home from work, I have been experiencing pain in my left hand and forearm.. weird pain, that when you touch my arm it just hurts and tingles. My hand feels the same way. It's bugging me and I am lefty, hard to type.. ugh...This RA is driving me crazy, different body part each day... I'm done whining ... hope your night is better!!

[sheels6726]

i had blood tests yesterday morning nurse took ages swapping arms to find vein, holding my arms out i am paying for it today, pain is bad if i move them can't lift them up, couldn't do my hair, fed up I sympathise with you, thinking of you x

[Olmettig in reply to sheels6726]

I hope your feeling better!! Did your pain go away today? Mine is still there, wondering what this is.. This is not fun.

[sheels6726 in reply to Olmettig]

Pain went in my arms but appeared in my ankles. It's like hide and seek today, hope you are feeling better x

[Hidden]

I have peripheral neuropathy and get that kind of numbness and tingling too. I would suggest you call your GP, just in case it is something serious?

[Julieladix]

Hi. I sometimes too experience the same thing as you. I have been having loads of problems with my wrists and hands. Starting to really get me down. I sometimes get a pins and needles feeling in my hands. The doctor thinks it could be carpal tunnel due to the swelling in my wrists. It's not fun. It's painful and tingles. Hope you feel better!

[oldtimer]

If it's higher up the arm as well as in the hand, it could be that you are pinching the nerve in the neck. I find that if I don't look after my posture, this sort of thing happens easily.

[Lesley_ann]

Hi, I also have pins and needles or numbness in my left arm, after having numerous xrays after a fall the docter at the fracture clinic told me its the nerves connected to my thumb. I have osteoarthritis in my thumb and moving it around causes the connected nerves to become painful. The doctor gave me a steroid injection in the ball part of my thumb that connects with my wrist and within 12 hour's or so I was pain free , well in my left arm wrist and thumb. Hopefully it will last me for a few months I respond quite well to steroid injections.

Linda x