Sometimes my toes are numb, and I frequently wake up with numb hands/fingers. Any idea what this might be?
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1. yes, u should have a vascular ultrasound checking peripheral vessels and the flow in them (triplex or doppler) its simple and cheap 2. it could be a special vascular entity such as Raynaud disease especially if there are slight changes in the color(light bluish and colder) of the palms or feet as well, also easy to check 3. u mention numbness and uve ruled out hyperglycemia...im not so sure u should quit checking again ur blood glucose,after meal or even have an glycozylated haemoglobin count (Hbg cA1) 3. u should visit a neurologist and have an electromygraphy and a neurological examination in case a diagnosis isnt reached
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Go to the dr.it could be diabetes too,,,going by the sweet taste in your mouth,and numbness. Im a diebetic and sometimes i feel this way.
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How do you sleep? If you find you have your hands under your body, it could be a pinched nerve like other said. Also, you might reflexively clench your hands in your sleep (sorta like how some people grind their teeth and require a mouthguard to sleep). If that is the case, try to get carpal tunnel hand braces to resist this.\n\nRegardless, I would discuss the possibilities with your doctor when you see him/her next.
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This is definitely a strange sensation -- you get up out of your seat, and all you feel from one foot is an uncomfortable tingling. Or you wake up in the middle of the night, and you can't move your arm at all. And then, as your body part "wakes up," the strange tingling intensifies. Just what is going on here?\n\nUsually, you feel this familiar sensation after you've been putting pressure on part of our body -- sitting on a foot, sleeping on an arm, etc. When you apply this pressure for a prolonged period of time, you actually cut off communication from your brain to parts of your body. The pressure squeezes nerve pathways so that the nerves can't transmit electrochemical impulses properly. Nerve impulses carry sensation information from nerve endings in the body to the brain, as well as instructions from the brain to the parts of the body. When you interfere with this transfer by squeezing the nerve pathways, you don't have full feeling in that body part, and your brain has trouble telling the body part what to do.\n\nThis pressure can also squeeze arteries, stopping them from carrying nutrients to body cells. Without these nutrients, the nerve cells may behave abnormally, which can further interfere with communicating bodily sensations.\n\nDue to both these factors, the information transmitted from the body part becomes somewhat jumbled, and the brain receives strange messages. Some nerve cells don't transmit any information and others start sending impulses erratically. This causes you to feel a strange tingling sensation, which actually serves an important function. Your foot falling asleep for 10 minutes doesn't pose any health threat, but if you were to cut off circulation for an extended period of time -- several hours -- you could suffer serious nerve damage. The initial tingling sensation tells you that you might want to readjust your position.\n\nOnce you do move your foot, stretch your legs, or roll over off your arm, the nerve impulses begin to flow properly again. You don't regain feeling right away, however. There is a certain amount of re-adjustment time before the nerves transmit impulses correctly again. This increases the intensity of the tingling, causing the familiar "pins and needles" sensation.\n\nIf this has ever happened to you, you know that there are actually a few distinct sensations you go through as your body part "wakes up." The tingling may be followed by a more uncomfortable burning sensation, before your body part finally returns to normal. This happens because the nerves in your body are made up of separate long nerve cells that carry different sorts of impulses. These nerve fibers have different surrounding structures. Some nerve fibers have thicker "insulation" around them and so take longer to begin transmitting impulses properly after they've been squeezed. The fibers that transmit pain and temperature information are relatively thin, so you feel the tingling situations pretty quickly. Motor control fibers are thinner than the ones carrying touch information, so you can move the body part before you've regained complete feeling in it. Eventually, all the nerve fibers return to normal and you regain full use of the sleeping body part.
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I have Raynaud's as well, it mainly affects my feet and sometimes my hands and occurs when I'm stressed or upset, as well as when it's cold. If it's becoming a big problem for you, or is causing you a lot of pain, you can be prescribed nifedipine by your doctor which helps to open up the small peripheral vessels allowing blood to reach your fingers and toes. Otherwise, you just have to put up with it, there's not really much that you can do for it other than keeping your fingers and toes warm.
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You should make an appointment with your doctor to have it looked at.\n\nIt could be from something as harmless as a blunt trauma to the toe, which often takes a while to work itself out and effect the nails.\n\nBut it could also be a symptom of some more serious problem or fungus.
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It COULD be carpal tunnel syndrome, but you would have to have traumatized the wrist area in some way, either by repetitive action (like typing too much on Yahoo Answers! lol) or by a sudden trauma, like having your wrists crushed. \n\nMost likely, it's a pinched nerve resulting from the way you sleep (it occurs in the morning). The blood flow is being cut off, which is not good. \n\nIn order to see if it's just the way you're sleeping or really Carpal tunnel, go to a neurologist or even your regular doctor and have an EMG (electromyogram) test done, to determine nerve function. They can tell you what's actually going on.\n\nHere's more information on the test, and on other possible causes for your symptoms, such as peripheral neuropathy:\n\n"An electromyogram (EMG) is a test that is used to record the electrical activity of muscles. When muscles are active, they produce an electrical current. This current is usually proportional to the level of the muscle activity. An EMG is also referred to as a myogram.\n\nEMGs can be used to detect abnormal muscle electrical activity that can occur in many diseases and conditions, including muscular dystrophy, inflammation of muscles, pinched nerves, peripheral nerve damage (damage to nerves in the arms and legs), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) (also known as Lou Gehrig disease), myasthenia gravis, disc herniation, and others.\n\nWhy is an EMG test done?\n\nAn EMG is most often performed when patients have unexplained muscle weakness. The EMG helps to distinguish between muscle conditions in which the problem begins in the muscle and muscle weakness due to nerve disorders. The EMG can also be used to detect true weakness, as opposed to weakness from reduced use because of pain or lack of motivation.\n\nRE:\n    * Carpal Tunnel Syndrome And Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome - Carpal tunnel syndrome is a condition in which irritation of the wrist's median nerve causes tingling and numbness of the thumb, index, and the middle fingers. This condition is known as tarsal tunnel syndrome in the ankles and feet. Repetitive motions, obesity, pregnancy, hypothyroidism, arthritis, diabetes, and trauma are conditions known to cause carpal tunnel syndrome. Treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome depends on the severity of the symptoms and the nature of any disease that might be causing the symptoms. Source:MedicineNet"\n    \n\n    \n\n\nLast Editorial Review: 5/3/2005\n\n\n\n\n\nSigns and Symptoms by Body Region - Pinpoint your Pain\n    Browse Topics\nMedicineNet\nprovides reliable doctor produced health and medical information designed to help you improve your health and well-being.
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Have you worked out your hands within the last few hours?  I play keyboard/piano (plus I use a computer all day for a living) and after I have been using my hands like that for a while, the veins in my hands dilate because of the extra blood flow that is necessary to provide the oxygen to the muscles.  If there isn't any other symptom it might be that.  If there are other/unexplainable symptoms, I would talk to a doctor.
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yes, like when your washing dishes or in a hot tub and your hand gets all numb.
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As a general rule, it is usually one or the other that appears to fall asleep.  When a person is a diabetic, especially for a long time, they can develope such a thing called diabetic neuropathy.  This is when a limb, usually a leg or foot or both on one side becomes numb.  As a diabetic myself, this happened to me back in 1996.  It is scary sometimes and makes you really pay attention to your eating habits and making you take care of yourself better by regularly checking your blood sugar by using a meter.  Proper exercise and eating right will not correct neuropathy but it may prevent it from happening to other limbs in your body.\n\nAs for the shakes, it is common for that to happen.  That's why it is important for you or anyone with diabetes to eat regurlarly and don't skip on meals.  I hope this was helpful for you, good luck!
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I have no idea why your hand is doing that, but I can tell you why mine does that.\n\nI paint a lot, do yard work and have gymnastic type activities in my background and about 1 1/2 months ago, my hands (both but mostly my right) swelled, tingled and went numb mostly in my thumb and middle finger(s). So painful that it would actually wake me up at nights about a week after it started. I went to the doctor and had x-rays done on my wrists (I thought it was carpel tunnel syndrome) and it turned out that I have occult ganglion cysts, the kind in the middle of the wrist bones not the kind that come OUT of the wrist bones. The cyst puts pressure on the nerves in my hand. \n\nSo, the doctor told me to sleep with wrist splints on for at least 3 weeks to see if that would help (to keep the cysts from getting agitated so they could go down on their own). That has helped with the pain and swelling, but my middle fingers are still numb but no longer tingle. I'm still able to do every thing I always do, but use my splints during the day when I use yard tools.\n\nAnyway, that's my story. Good luck!
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Are you fingers, hand, or arm feeling numb?  (pins and needles like they are asleep or you've lost cirulation) Is this is what you're feeling it's carpal tunnel.  And you need to wear a wrist brace to bed.
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I had a constant numbness up both my arms last year and pain in my fingers for months. I went to a practioner who treats the person as a whole and he manipulated the top of my thigh and Ive never had the numbness since. Sounds dodgy but Ive been  going to this guy since I was pregnant and he knows what hes about.  I would look under osteopath or holistic treatments in the phone book. Good luck.
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If your certain your not diabetic than it is time to see a Dr. and get a referal to a specialist.\nWhat you describe suggests reduced circulation and there are many conditions that this symptom can be attributed to.\n\nNeuropathy or the pain from it responds well to a med called Neurontin.\nBut I am guessing you have been treated since you seem to know the name of your condition?\n\nThis could be anything from wearing tight heels to a vascular/heart condition.\nPlease pursue this with your doctor.
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I have one toe that does the same thing constantly, doesn't hurt though. It could be that there are ligaments slightly out of place and the sound that you hear is them moving around. If it bothers you ask your dr. next time you go in.  I don't think that there is anything that you can do to prevent it, but I'm not a Dr., so I could be wrong.  Good Luck!
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Sounds like poor circulation.  You might want to ask your doctor.  I think poor circulation in your feet can be a sign a diabetes.
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it might be a sinus problem, or sinus infection, or ear infection, or swollen lymph nodes caused by another infection,,i suggest you see a dr,  and even consider going to an emergency room, all of those symtoms combined together really dont fit into any one problem that i know of , i would be especially concerned about the numbness and dizziness