Muscle Wasting In Left Hand From Pinched Nerve
 Muscle Atrophy In Hand From Ulnar Nerve Damage |
The following post from our Muscle Atrophy & Ulnar Nerve Damage page is from a man who has muscle wasting in his left hand from nerve damage caused by an extra cervical rib pressing against a nerve.
Muscle Wasting In Left Hand From Pinched Nerve |
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I developed wasting in my left hand when I was 18
(1972). I had had pain and numbness in my left arm
for a couple of years, mostly when I was stressed or
when I raised my arm. Local docs were stumped. Went
to Duke and they said it was caused by an extra
cervical rib that pressed on nerves to the hand
cutting off nourishment to the muscle. They took out
the rib and I had no further symptoms until 2002. At
that time I developed tremendous pain in the left
arm, no numbness. I wanted to cut my arm off because
it hurt so badly. I went to physical therapy and
took codeine for a month and then the pain stopped.
Months later I noticed more atrophy in my left hand
because of severe weakness. One doctor thought ALS -
wrong! Johns Hopkins said that I had a very rare 2nd
type of episode similar to the first one and that it
shouldn't cause more symptoms. So far it hasn't. I
lost muscle both on the upside of my hand and also
in the palm around the thumb, plus a little wasting
in the other palm areas. Who knows, maybe nowadays
they would call it carpal tunnel, but I kind of
doubt it since its not my dominant hand and doesn't
have to work as hard as my rightie. |
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Jimmy,
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