Once in a while, you might have had a stabbing or tickling feeling on one hand or both hands at the same time. I know you may have wondered its dangerous from the doctor, desk waking up with pins and needles in hands should not be ignored if at all the frequency of occurrence is high as it may be a symptom of a more serious condition like diabetes.
Pins and needles feeling in the hand mainly occur when the supply of blood is cut off and inadequately reaches the nerves of the hands especially when a person is sitting down or sleeps on a particular part of the body system.
The pins and needles apart from affecting the hands they tend also to affect other body parts like the arms, legs and the feet. The piercing or tingling feeling gets to stop whenever the weight exerted on the particular part of the body system is lifted off and the supply of blood returns to normal flow to the nerves of the hands.
The pins and needles feeling in the hands are medically known as Paresthesia. It is simply caused by a person lying on the arm or putting some pressure on the hand, which in turn stops the blood from flowing in the correct manner to the nerves of the hands.
If a person positions the hand poorly, it tends to cause pressure directly on the nerves of the hands. In turn, the nerves respond to the lack of blood supply or pinching by producing a temporary pin and needles. When the paresthesia becomes extreme it may be an indication of a primary medical condition. The possible medical conditions might include
Sometimes the pins and needles may occur in the right hand due to a deficiency in vitamins, diabetes, and kidney failure among other medical factors which cause them in the hands and feet due to damage of the nerves. Being prescribed with some drugs may cause the pins and needles in the right hand. Other possible causes may include autoimmune diseases, toxins, alcoholism, and infections. The pins and needles at times happen in both hands and manifest themselves with symptoms such as having a burning sensation, tingling feeling, a change in sensitivity to touch. The cause includes injury, compressing of the hands or irritation of the hands nerves, systematic causes such as metabolic (peripheral neuropathy) and neurologic ones (syringomyelia), inflammatory cause such as autoimmune (lupus and multiple sclerosis) and vascular and environmental causes such as toxins, vitamin imbalance and stress.
The most evident symptoms of waking up with pins and needles in hands include; having prickling and tingling feeling, the hand being numb and the hand being normal shortly once a person changes a position.
The person should get really worried if she or he starts to have extreme and frequent pins and needles which may indicate other underlying disorders. When they become frequent they should seek for medical examinations.
Waking up with pins and needles in hands should not be alarming thing, but the moment the bout of pins and needles in the hand becomes occasional it may tend to turn harmful or when they become chronic which can be a symptom of a more serious and underlying disorder. When frequency increase the affected person should visit the doctor immediately.
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