My left pinky finger is numb

[AlCzervik]

and has been for the past 3 days, also tingles a little. I haven't injured it that i can recall, could i have piched a nerve?

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Do you have any pain?

Pinched nerve pain can be spasmodic, moving from here to there.

Right now I am dealing with a pinched nerve on the left shoulder/arm/hand side. It started with pain in the shoulder, then moved downward. I also get the numbness, but it comes and goes. Additionally, the arm doesn't function as normal.

See your doctor. I woke up with the damned thing. Good luck. They are miserable.

[AlCzervik]

2. So i'm most likely not about to have a heart attack then?

when it went numb that was of course my first thought, good lord i'm getting old.

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. I doubt it.

But when I first saw the sawbones about this towards the end of June, he did insist on an EGK. I have since had X-rays that showed nothing wrong.

I have been taking muscle relaxers (which make me feel like a stoner) and Vioxx for 6 weeks. The pain is much relieved (though I still have occasions of that), but I still have numbness and pins and needles feeling. Some of that is all the time, other comes and goes.

The next step would be an MRI to pinpoint exactly where the nerve is pinched. The doc suspects the neck.

They often give steroid shots into the affected area to clear these up, physical therapy is another option. Surgery is the last resort.

As I said before, I would see the doctor.

[psychopomp]

8. Have you considered chiro?

Might help.

[Southsideirish]

3. Carpel tunnel? How much do your use it?

[AlCzervik]

4. alot, on the computer for about 6 hours a day.

It doesn't hurt, it's just numb.

[NV Whino]

5. Probably a pinched nerve

in the neck area or just between the shoulder blades. That 's usually where it happens on me. A quick trip to the chriropracter usually fixes me up. I go to a guy who uses an "activator" rather than a whack 'em and crack 'em guy. Very gentle treatment that works really well. Seldom need more than one visit.

[joefree1]

7. Find a Gas Guzzeler, excercise that pinky finger

And a one, two, three. Repeat, one, two, three.

[AlFrankenFan]

9. I don't mean to alarm...

But the same thing happened with my step-mother, and then her arm was numb, and now it turns out she has MS.

[WilliamPitt]

10. Do you lean on your forearm when you type/work/sit?

Sounds like you pinched a nerve. Do some arm exercises.

[Mandate My Ass]

11. My numb thumb turned out to be a herniated disc

Several years ago I had intermittent numbness in my thumb. I thought it was carpal tunnel syndrome until the M.D. I worked for told me carpal tunnel causes pain, not numbness. An MRI confirmed a herniated disc with nerve impingement.

Could be anything but you might want to have it checked out sooner rather than later. I waited too long and ended up in surgery.

Good luck.