Please help, I have tingling in my right arm. I'm a personal trainer!

[Eltonmichelle]

I'm a personal trainer. I teach 4 classes a week, but 3 weeks ago started having tingling in my right arm down to my thumb. I haven't done anything different. It's frustrating and very annoying. The tingling comes on in waves. I saw a chiropractor thinking I needed an adjustment. It hasn't helped. Is it a herniated disc, pinched nerve...What can I do and will this get better with just ice and massage?

[star queen]

As a rule of thumb, tingling and numbness in the fingers are from pinched nerves. When it occurs in the pinky and ring finger it is from the neck.  A chiro would be a good idea.  When there is a problem in the thumb it is from the elbow.  could be a complication of tennis elbow, striking the "funny bone", overuse, fracture, etc.  When the numbness is the whole thumb going across the palm it is carpal tunnel.  Thumb pain that is along the side going into the side of the wrist, there is another tunnel in the wrist that could be inflammed. You would need to see an ortho. If just the tips of the fingers are involved, not the entire digit, a deficiency in dietary iodine is suspected, or hypothyroidism.  Do you consume iodized salt ( 1 tsp/day) or deep water fish (2X/wk)?  You might need to supplement with those or take kelp, no higher than 220mcg/day. If your diet is okay, check with the MD and get a thyroid test done. If the entire hand goes to sleep or if the problem goes into both hands intermittantly, then chronic dehydration is suspected. If you have hand problems that include muscle cramps or ridgity in other muscles, then dehydration with electrolyte imbalance is suspected. A CBC blood test/Chem 7 panel blood test will tell you.

[speceeee]

star queen u are one smart cookie u took those words right out of my keyboard

[AlanWT]

Michelle, I was tracking the email responses to your original question in this forum because I think I have the same problem as you.

It appears that your problem is now resolved from last year. According to your response, I estimate that it took you approximately 10-11 weeks to resolve, is that correct?

Can you tell me if you are asymptomatic now, more than a year later? Do you recall if you had feeling of a neck tightening, like a crick in the next after sleeping on it poorly? Finally, do you think the problem started as a result of muscle tightening due to stress?

I am obviously concerned about my own situation - as my symptom like yours is puzzling - but seeing that your problem resolved, I am feeling a little better. Thanks.

Alan

[brandie400]

I know that I have problems with my back in the lower 4 & 5, but all day today my right arm has been numb and tingling, could this be caused from my back or do you think it is something else?
Brandie

[sarahelizabethcrandell]

I have been having a tingling in my left hand. some time it starts in my shoulder and goes down and some times the reverse and goes from my finger tips up.  usally can feel it in my elbow and wrist and hand the worse.  It gets annoying more than anything. Its not like it is asleep, just a tingling sensation that feels like it is right below the skin. Once it start there is nothing I can do to make it go away. I have tried shaking it, dangling it and just moving it. It has been going on for about a month or two now. In my hand it is more my wrist and pinky and thumb with it beibg less in the middle three fingers. It appears to me that my hands will get swollen right after i get the sensation. I do have poor circulation. If i let my hands dangle for any period of time they change color and get darker, my feet are the same way whether i stand for a period of time. but no other extremity is feeling the tingling. Please Help.

[BWolf]

I have started feeling the same in my right arm and hand.....was scared to think it might be heart related, but from what I read....doesnt seem that way. I banged my right shoulder in the gym a few weeks ago and I think that might of been the cause??

I am going back to Gym tonight to play Racquet Ball and hope that it is ok to do that since I am left handed.

Any feedback is welcome.

[gheebee1]

Thank you star queen...:)  for your comment. I'm gheebee(GB), a newbie. Having the same tingling as I am writing this. It is correctable. Thank you again...:)