Hello, for over a month now I've been having tingling and numbness in the L hand and some in the L arm. Its not exactly the pins-and-needles feeling i get from sleeping on the hand sometimes, but it is similar. About last week I began having a burning pain in my shoulder and shooting pains in my L forearm. I saw a doctor (physicians assistant, actually) who said that it was probably a pinched nerve.
He also said that my left hand was much weaker than my right. This bothered me because I'm left handed and thought that at work I used my left for most of the lifting. I could be wrong, in retrospect. There is actually a visual difference in my left and right biceps.
I was given tylenol 3 for the pain (1 every 4 hours). I had been taking aspiren w/ codeine (200mg/8mg) before i was given this prescription (they were purchased OTC when I was in canada). I think they might have cut down in the effectiveness of it because now when I take it, I only get pain relief for 30 minutes at the most (and really only if i chew it). The pain keeps getting worse and I'm beggining to think it isn't a pinched nerve. Surely if it were, it would have been better within a month especially with NSAID + narcotic treatment I had been using.
Is it possible its some peripheral neuropathy?