numbness swelling burning in hands while sleeping

So grateful to read this . I had neck surgeries too. Now anytime I do anything as little as sweeping I go thru pure he'll at night!! Right hand usually middle and one other finger burns like lava and swell.. I get up all night walk around 10 times cry in pain and beg God to take my life!! Nobody UNDERSTANDS! I even called 911 once. Had nerve conduction tests. .nothing .. then was diagnosed with raynauds disease. Nothing has helped .. but omg ty for the trigger point information .. it makes sense..ty gonna try it

Fore everyone...if the pain is in your index and middle fingers and thumb, it is an impingement of your median nerve...carpal tunnel syndrome.

I have been having the numb, burning, tingling pain in my hands as well. I am 52 and have always used my hands enormously in my lifetime. Because of no insurance, I haven't gone to doctor. Most of my pain is at night. I relate to many of he stories on line. I sit up in bed to help with circulation, hang my arms down off of bed or get up and walk around. Has anyone found a remedy?

Thank you,
Nanette in Louisiana

Please let me tell you my story. Hopefully what you will learn from what I am about to relate to you will help many others to find the solution to reducing, if not even eliminating almost all of your hand pain. For many years I endured numb fingers and thumbs and the older I got the worse it seemed to get. I think this was because as I aged I tried to eat lots of healthy food and less junk food. But one day I discovered that some foods we’re actually making my condition worse. I’m sure it will be very difficult for many of you to accept the truth of what I am about to reveal to you, but rest assured I am not lying. I have always taken sandwiches in my lunches to help keep the cost down. I liked sandwiches that were tasty so I would put on salami,ham, pepperoni slices with onions tomato slices, pepper slices and I love spicy foods too. When I got so tired of making sandwiches, and eating them too, for one week I took anything that was left over in the fridge instead of making my tasty sandwiches. I couldn’t believe it but the numbness and firey pain and aching in my wrist begin to subside within a few days. I couldn’t believe it, but I knew I was on to something. In years past when I had eaten large quantities of red or yellow peppers I experienced severe pain in my finger joints. I had heard many years previous that people with arthritis could not eat peppers and so I begin to wonder what was in Peppers that caused this severe reaction. I knew that peppers were part of the nightshade family of vegetables. So I googled “nightshade vegetables” and learned that millions of people are sensitive to what are known as “alkaloid compounds” which are present in all night shade vegetables. The website I had found contained a complete list of these vegetables and it turned out that some berries also have these compounds in them. A doctor had written the article that I had found and he recommended that you remove the offending foods from your diet for up to 3 months and see whether or not your condition improved. He says to then reintroduce the foods back into your diet one at a time and see if the symptoms reappear. Well I will tell you, I was already a believer. The reduction in my painful symptoms was so pronounced that I already knew I was on the right track. I then looked up alkaloid compounds on Wikipedia and I discovered that caffeine, nicotine and morphine are all alkaloid compounds too. Obviously this meant that life altering changes in my diet we’re going to be necessary. But despite the difficulty of making these changes I willingly did it so that I could be pain free finally after 35 years of suffering. Now I have to warn you that you will find professional opinions on websites that will try to debunk the efficacy of making these changes in your diet. But you have to remember that many medical personnel do not want us to find these relationships between health and illness because they personally do not want to believe or have a financial interest at stake in keeping you in the dark. Their primary interest is namely, pharmaceuticals. So the onus is on you to prove to yourself whether or not making these changes will benefit you personally. Make it a two week or one month challenge to see if it makes a difference for you or not. You be the judge and not someone else.
I also discovered that I am sensitive to the lactic acid in milk and milk some milk products. ie. Whey powder, modified milk ingredients, sweetened condensed milk etc. It is somewhat challenging to eliminate all foods that you may be sensitive to because so many processed foods have inflammation causing foods in them. Like me you will have to become an astute label reader and start eating more whole foods and less processed foods. It's a pain but not nearly as painful as the pain that I had in my hands.
Understanding what inflammation disorders are and their causes is a good start. All disease is the result of inflammation that has become chronic. Learning what causes inflammation in us is the answer to reducing disease in the body. I’ve pasted some links below that will educate you in the matters pertaining to my discoveries. When you learn what “Alkaloid Compounds” are, what foods contain them, and how they affect the body, you will be on your way to better health and much less pain. Many of you described your pain and symptoms in such a way that it could have been me who was making those statements. So I am certain that many of you will benefit from what you are about to learn. My only hope is that you do find relief from your symptoms because I know how life changing it has been for me. Good health to you all.

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I have all the symptoms that everyone is describing. I started a new job about 5 weeks ago and I use my hands alot. it started slowly but now it is everyday and night. I cant sleep and I can barely hold anything now without my hands going numb and start burning. I have to sit up in bed or get up and walk around and shake my arms and hands to get it to go about 50% away. I am a neuromuscular therapist and even massage doesn't help most of the time. I take meds for it and still no relief. so I am looking for more alternatives. There has to be something to help. I dont want to quit the job I have.

Please help!!!
I have the same problem when I lay down whether it be morning or night mostly at night I think because I sleep and I lay down longer my hands and arms start to swell tingle and go numb and have pain I go to a pain doctor who I have explained this to but he does not know what it's caused from I have been diagnosed with osteoarthritis this also happens to in my lower extremities as well if someone could please help me find out what is going on if I sit up for like 30 minutes it seems that the tingling and numbness go away. I use ice packs that help some and I take my pain medication witch helps also

Im the same guys, i wake up and my arms Are completely numb, swollen and burning! Have to hang them over the bed but i get it all day too just not as bad. I have psorisis, psoratic arthritits, 4 slipped discs in my back and sciatica on BOTH sides, in some shape for a 27 year old. Im on injections for the psoratic arthritis which was working brilliantly. Then last week this started with my hands and forearms! Not sure what to do. Im
A fisherman and use my hands all day so it could be that. Any help would mean a lot!! Cheers x

hope you are still feeling better....your story was very informative not to mention funny as hell...me thinks maybe you should take up writing (as in a book) you have a way of writing that makes people want to hear what you have to say.....

In the last few months I've been having numbness in my both hands. However this only happens when I sleep. I feel perfectly normal all day. Sometimes just a finger or a couple of fingers, sometimes part of one of the hands. Sometimes it's the left and sometimes it's the right. Sometimes I'm sleep on my side that goes numb, but recently when one of the hands goes numb I'm lying flat on my back. At times I can see a redness to the skin of the area that is numb. It goes away after I wake up and move it around. I'm 55 and last year I had a stent due to a blocked artery, I have since dropped 30 pounds and I feel fine now except for this recently increasing sleeping numbness. This is only to my hands, my feet and the rest of me is fine. I have just read online that a statin I am taking, Crestor, may have side effects such as numbness to hands or feet. If so, then why is the numbness only occurring at night while I am asleep? I'm considering stopping the medication for a week or so to see if the symptoms lessen or stop. Does it sound like the medication may be the cause? I am scheduled to see my cardiologist for a follow-up visit in two weeks. Thanks.

I started having the fire pain in my right hand over five years ago. Little by little it got worse. I'm in pain writing this now. Every night for a week I wake up with swollen hands, fingers, and yes even my knuckles on fire. Hang them down and shake them while walking around exactly like you guys. I had a car wreck in 1996 broke c4&c5 vertebraes paralyzed from neck down but had surgery and walk living a normal life. Been to the neurologist who did my surgery three years ago for this pain. Mri multiple tests. Nothing. So I'm going back. It is affecting my daily life with lack of sleep and severe pain that I will not be able to let it go untreated. I'm miserable with fire burning in both hands unless I walk. Sitting is the same as sleeping now. Don't be like me and put it off til it's a constant pain. I'll try to post my outcome on here for you all.

My have ring in my hand my nuckles are swollon i had carptunnel 15 years ok will i die

Im also going through the same thing wonder what the common denominator that causes it to happen to so many of us humm my left hand is the worse an my finger be hot, tingling, an swollen as if its their going burst

How do you know where knots are?

I wake many times through the night with severe pain, swollen knuckles where I can't bend my fingers. I fall asleep sitting up alot but it also happens then, while I'm driving....It seems that they "die" not fall asleep...It takes standing and moving around to get the blood flowing back to my hands..It's miserable pain...I'm going crazy from it..I am a painter I paint houses. I went to a chiropractor years ago the said then I had no cartilage between my disc's and it's bone on bone pressing nerves if I didn't treat it would eventually lose the use of my arms..I afraid that's what's happening.

I live in NorCal and am I great pain. 

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