Trust our families all survived Christmas, tripping around us?!!
I've read of a few posts talking about pins and needles in their arms, and I've only just thought about my own. I love reading/writing in bed, but I have a really aching left shoulder, so being left-handed its getting to be a pain keep having to shift around (like I have a trapped nerve to release) or holding my arm in the air and squeezing my fist.
Could it be part of the dreaded general aches and pains across the shoulders, neck and now the bloody elbows that I've been experiencing in recent weeks??
I tell you what: our GPs are not going to know what's hit them come Monday 5th Jan when all these angry, sweating, cursing, crying, aching woman come banging on their doors! I bags I'm seen first!
Either that or I need the help of Liam Neeson with his 'Special Set of Skills' ......... me thinks that's another discussion in another forum - ding dong!!
I would say it's all part of the dreaded menopause I get pins and needles in my hands used to get pain in my neck that has now travelled to my left arm and now its the left side of my lower back fed up with all of this just want to be pain free.
Not been on here for a few weeks I hope you all had a great Chistmas so far!
I have been getting pins and needles in my hands at night for the past month and put it down to menopause, but also and this may sound silly but it has helped, I have put on a bit of weight and what with water retention at this stage in life getting worse for some, I noticed that my rings were getting tighter at night and escalating the pins and needles sensation, take my jewelry off now and its certainly improved my circulation, try it
thanks ladies. Emm, take on board the weight and water retention. Unfortunately I'm left handed, use that arm/hand predominently and also fear that I have probs with the rotator cuff in that shoulder. my sister had keyhole surgery to sort hers 2yrs ago = hasn't looked back. I'll mention that, and my mum's bone history of TB in bones and 3 hip replacement ops while I'm demanding x-rays and blood tests at the GP in the new year! Our NHS is brilliant, apparently. Just haven't used it much myself, even tho' I've paid into it since I was 17!! (Blimey! where did that come from??!)
Thanks again ladies. It ain't fun this bloody peri(menopause) malarkey, thats for sure! x
