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Medical Forum / General / General / March 2008pins and needles in left pinky
About an hour ago I was lying on the couch on my back when I noticed the feeling of pins and needles in my left pinky. It's still there. My husband and I spend half of our lives going to doctors and I don't want to go running to mine if this isn't serious. What could cause this? I have no pain in my elbow or shoulder. I use the mouse with my right hand. The only other thing that I do repetitively is swim. I swim 20 laps every day. I do take lots of meds for chronic low back pain, but I've been on all of them for years. There are only two things that I have started in the past week - Tamiflu until yesterday (turns out I had a bad cold, not the flu) and Delsym, a cough suppressant. I am a 62 year old female. This is kind of scary. > About an hour ago I was lying on the couch on my back when I noticed > the feeling of pins and needles in my left pinky. It's still there. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > the mouse with my right hand. The only other thing that I do > repetitively is swim. I swim 20 laps every day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulnar_nerve > > About an hour ago I was lying on the couch on my back when I noticed > > the feeling of pins and needles in my left pinky. It's still there. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulnar_nerve Yes I had read about this but I got the impression that it was usually accompanied by discomfort in the elbow. I have not bumped my elbow and it doesn't hurt at all. >> > About an hour ago I was lying on the couch on my back when I noticed >> > the feeling of pins and needles in my left pinky. It's still there. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >accompanied by discomfort in the elbow. I have not bumped my elbow >and it doesn't hurt at all. I've had pins & needles just from lying on the floor propped up on my elbows. It doesn't have to come from impact. -- David Wright :: alphabeta at copper.net These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct. "Without Bush, what will America's schoolchildren have to look down on?" -- Bill Maher > In article <cf5570e0-88ed-4944-a770-eb5402350...@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > "Without Bush, what will America's schoolchildren have to look down on?" > -- Bill Maher Yes, but it usually goes away in a few minutes. This isn't. > > In article <cf5570e0-88ed-4944-a770-eb5402350...@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, > > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Yes, but it usually goes away in a few minutes. This isn't. Quit leaning. You're causing permanent damage to the nerve. J >> In article <cf5570e0-88ed-4944-a770-eb5402350...@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, >> >> > About an hour ago I was lying on the couch on my back when I noticed [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >> >Yes, but it usually goes away in a few minutes. This isn't. In the case I'm thinking of, it took a couple of days to go away. -- David Wright :: alphabeta at copper.net These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct. "Without Bush, what will America's schoolchildren have to look down on?" -- Bill Maher > In article <862d1b33-4033-4501-b242-6adae425b...@j28g2000hsj.googlegroups.com>, > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > "Without Bush, what will America's schoolchildren have to look down on?" > -- Bill Maher It's gone. It went away some time the next day. > About an hour ago I was lying on the couch on my back when I noticed > the feeling of pins and needles in my left pinky. It's still there. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > This is kind of scary. What part of the pinky? The whole thing or just part of it? Top and bottom or just top or bottom? How long does it take for the skin under the nail to become pink after the nail is pressed down (it should become white when you press the nail and pink again when you let off)? How about for other fingers? Jeff > > About an hour ago I was lying on the couch on my back when I noticed > > the feeling of pins and needles in my left pinky. It's still there. [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > Jeff Hi Jeff, It's only the outer side of the pinky. Feels like the entire side. The skin returns to pink in about 1/2 second. Other fingers may come back very slightly faster, but not enough for me to measure.
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