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Suggest Treatment For Tingling Sensation In The Left Arm Along With Wrist Pain
I have started having this tingling in my left arm, thumb, and pointing/middle fingers. I first noticed it after wearing a wrist brace overnight for the same hand and after having wrist pain and wrist weakness. It bothers me more in the morning or while at work. I just had a health assessment a week ago. All of my numbers were good, but my blood pressure was a little high, taken on my left arm. I checked it over the weekend with a home blood pressure machine, and the numbers from each arm were different. Left arm, tingling arm, was elevated but the right arm showed numbers in the normal range. Should I worry?
Wed, 18 Jan 2017
Hi,
i understand your concern regarding the pain.
Since you have mentioned that you have wrist pain as well as tingling sensation in your hand, it has to be related with nerve compression (most probably median nerve as per your symptoms) or due to deficiency of nutrients like cobalamine. Considering that you are non diabetic non hypertensive not an elderly person (since you have not mentioned specifically), the reasons could be:
* Trauma history at the region of armpit or forehand
* This can also occurs mostly due to our lifestyle habits like usage of computers, watching lot of TV, bending while reading.
Suggestions:
1) If your pain is very recent and short duration then get prescribed an analgesic like Paracetamol/Tylenol along with Tab Neurokind once daily.
2) Do not take analgesics excessively.
3) You need to keep an erect straight posture of your back and neck.
4) Do stretching exercises, when you wake up lie on your chest then using two hand lift yourself up, in a arc like position and then lie down slowly. Repeat this at least ten times daily. this will surely relieve back pain. You can watch online videos for such exercises.
5) If your problem aggravates you need to get yourself physically examined and investigated through radiological methods like X ray and MRI.
Hope these suggestion help you. Contact for further follow up.
Thanks with best regards,
Dr. Suhas Chauhan
i understand your concern regarding the pain.
Since you have mentioned that you have wrist pain as well as tingling sensation in your hand, it has to be related with nerve compression (most probably median nerve as per your symptoms) or due to deficiency of nutrients like cobalamine. Considering that you are non diabetic non hypertensive not an elderly person (since you have not mentioned specifically), the reasons could be:
* Trauma history at the region of armpit or forehand
* This can also occurs mostly due to our lifestyle habits like usage of computers, watching lot of TV, bending while reading.
Suggestions:
1) If your pain is very recent and short duration then get prescribed an analgesic like Paracetamol/Tylenol along with Tab Neurokind once daily.
2) Do not take analgesics excessively.
3) You need to keep an erect straight posture of your back and neck.
4) Do stretching exercises, when you wake up lie on your chest then using two hand lift yourself up, in a arc like position and then lie down slowly. Repeat this at least ten times daily. this will surely relieve back pain. You can watch online videos for such exercises.
5) If your problem aggravates you need to get yourself physically examined and investigated through radiological methods like X ray and MRI.
Hope these suggestion help you. Contact for further follow up.
Thanks with best regards,
Dr. Suhas Chauhan
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