The reason why my hands feel numb after getting up

When we wake up every morning, we are most energetic in the day. However, some friends have bad conditions when they get up in the morning. For example, some people have symptoms of numbness in their hands after getting up. There are many reasons for numbness in the hands after getting up. Everyone should know the causes of numbness in the hands after getting up, and then make targeted treatments based on the causes of numbness in the hands after getting up. Let’s take a look at the detailed introduction below.

Sometimes you feel numbness in your hands after getting up in the morning. In fact, this is an external manifestation of some physical problems, and we must pay attention to it. Some diseases can cause numbness in the hands. We need to learn more about them so that we can better take care of our bodies. If your hands feel numb after getting up, you should be alert to the onset of illness, as you may have the following diseases.

1. Cervical spondylotic radiculopathy

Symptom identification: In addition to numbness and pain in the fingers, the patient also has pain in the neck, neck, back, head, and upper limbs, which manifests as numbness and swelling on the radial or ulnar side, or all five fingers, and may also be accompanied by decreased grip strength. The pain is usually dull, sore, burning, or a dull pain, or an electric shock-like pain. Numbness is often in the same area as pain, and the two often go together, but numbness often occurs in the fingers and forearms. The fingers and forearms have decreased sensation, and a few have areas of sensory hypersensitivity, which is often caused by irritation of the diseased segment.

2. Carpal tunnel syndrome

Symptom differentiation: The patient has numbness or tingling in 3.5 fingers on the rubbed side, which is aggravated at night and wakes up from sleep due to pain. The pain worsens when the temperature is high and is relieved by movement or shaking the hand. In cold seasons, the affected fingers become cold and cyanotic, and the fingers are not flexible, and the thumb abduction muscle strength is poor. In severe cases, the thenar and hypothenar muscles on the affected side atrophy.

Carpal tunnel syndrome, also known as carpal tunnel stenosis, refers to a disease characterized by thickening of the transverse carpal ligament, swelling of the muscles within the canal, tissue degeneration caused by blood stasis, or degeneration and hyperplasia of the carpal bones due to wrist trauma, fracture, dislocation, sprain or wrist strain, which compresses the median nerve and causes numbness and weakness in the fingers. This disease is common in people who engage in occupational carrying, lifting, twisting, pinching, etc. Numbness and swelling in the fingers are one of the symptoms, but it is often accompanied by numbness in the arms and other parts of the body.

3. Heart and kidney diseases

Symptom identification: Swelling of fingers caused by cardiovascular and kidney diseases is usually accompanied by swelling of the face or legs. If your hands feel numb after getting up, you should be alert to the possibility of disease. Numbness and swelling of fingers is one of its early manifestations. If it is accompanied by swollen and painful joints, this possibility is even greater. If the skin on the face and fingers becomes hard, it may be scleroderma.

In the above article, we introduced a common symptom, which is numbness in the hands after getting up. There are many reasons for numbness in the hands after getting up. It may be caused by heart or kidney disease, or it may be caused by radiculopathy of cervical spondylosis.