About two months ago I would wake up in the night with severe tingling sensations in my right arm. It started from the top of the shoulder and would shoot down to the tip of my fingers. It progressivly got worst and it happens every night. Now when I get the pain it wakes me up, my fingers are swollen, the tingling sensation is very intense. It is so excruciating painful, it about knocks me to my knees. I have tried hanging the arm off the bed, stretching by pulling away and or pushing into a door jam. I have tried different exercises, stretches, shaking my arm, to makimg huge arm circles forward and back. It is so bad that I have found the best thing to do is just get up and try to proceed as normal through the day. I cannot even use my right arm to open the fridge or grasp a coffee pot. Slowly, the horrilbe pain subsides but the tingling sensation never goes away. In the last three weeks or so, my left arm has started doing the same thing and is quickly catching up to the same symptoms and intensity of the right arm. Both arms from the top of shoulder down to the tip of fingers are extremly painful. Again, I just have to get up and start moving to get the gripping pain to become tolerable, the fingers swelling goes down through the day, however, the tingling sensation from the shoulders into the tip of my fingers never goes away.
Do you have any idea what could be causing this? I have tried sleeping in different bedrooms, on different mattress's and the floor, thinking possibly the beds were the problem. Nothing makes a difference.
Thank you,
Carrie