Tingly fingers

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Hello all
I lost my lower legs to diabetes which was bad enough, but now, despite my attempts to keep my glucose levels low (my control is good) I am slowly losing the use of my hands.
My fingers tingle and both pinky fingers are pretty useless; they lock in a claw position and have to be straightened physically at times, then they will 'come back' and be normal for hours.
Does anyone on this wonderful forum have any advice on delaying the inevitable and making my tingly-fingers last longer as useful digits?
Thank you all and keep up the good fight!
 
Locked fingers sounds like trigger finger. What has the GP or specialist recommended doing about it?
 
Thanks, Lucyr.
I am advised it is nerve deterioration due to diabetic neuropathy.
I got no 'official' advise, I just thought someone else may have gone through the same thing.
Ho hum!
 
Why is it always the same with doctors...
"The best thing you can do is stop smoking and drinking."
Never smoked, not had a drink for 45 years.
Doctor: blank stare.
 
Ah the blank / non-committal stare of a doctor ... I know it well

I don't get tingly fingers, but I do get fingers locking in various random positions sometimes - a friend suggested possible dehydration as a trigger, but I don't know. For me often it is triggered by using the hand (eg gripping a knife and cutting something), other times there is no cause (woke up and had to physically uncurl the 2 smallest fingers on one hand).
When it happens I can't do much of anything til it passes as I'm right handed and it's always my right hand. Normally I don't get any pain with it.

I'm currently trying to chase more pressing health issues with my doc atm, but I do plan to chase that one later.
I'm prediabetic (scored 42), so I wouldn't think mine would be diabetic neuropathy.
 
Lucyr said:
Locked fingers sounds like trigger finger. What has the GP or specialist recommended doing about it?
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what is trigger finger?
 
s'nic said:
Ah the blank / non-committal stare of a doctor ... I know it well

I don't get tingly fingers, but I do get fingers locking in various random positions sometimes - a friend suggested possible dehydration as a trigger, but I don't know. For me often it is triggered by using the hand (eg gripping a knife and cutting something), other times there is no cause (woke up and had to physically uncurl the 2 smallest fingers on one hand).
When it happens I can't do much of anything til it passes as I'm right handed and it's always my right hand. Normally I don't get any pain with it.

I'm currently trying to chase more pressing health issues with my doc atm, but I do plan to chase that one later.
I'm prediabetic (scored 42), so I wouldn't think mine would be diabetic neuropathy.
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I get something similar usually when my hands are cold but in the left hand, rubbing normally make it go away but my colleagues used to laugh as my deformed hand. I suppose it was a sort of cramp.
But the symptoms described by the OP doe sound a bit like trigger finger and there are some suggested treatments from the NHS.
 
Woolfold said:
Hello all
I lost my lower legs to diabetes which was bad enough, but now, despite my attempts to keep my glucose levels low (my control is good) I am slowly losing the use of my hands.
My fingers tingle and both pinky fingers are pretty useless; they lock in a claw position and have to be straightened physically at times, then they will 'come back' and be normal for hours.
Does anyone on this wonderful forum have any advice on delaying the inevitable and making my tingly-fingers last longer as useful digits?
Thank you all and keep up the good fight!
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Have you seen a neurologist?
 
Thanks everyone! I definitely have a better knowledge of my condition now.
Besides the tingling, my pinky fingers do lock but I have no knowledge of it until another finger touches it or I try to do something and it gets in the way, then I unlock it.
Besides type 2 diabetes (insulin controlled) I have chronic kidney disease for which I was recently prescribed Forxiga (brand name. Actual drug name dapagliflozin), atrial fibrilation for which I take extreme blood thinners. The dangerous clots actually form in the heart chambers when i miss a beat every minute or so or I get an ectopic 'thump', which feels weird.
Apart from being 67, always tired and in a wheelchair, I am tickety-boo!
I just got some new sockets for my legs and always wear odd socks. Small things amuse small minds.
 

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I have what I have assumed for several years is trigger finger on the middle finger of my right hand.

It used to be particularly ‘locked’ first thing in the morning at one stage. After a bit of internet searching I bought a splint to keep it straight overnight which did seem to help for a while.

I’ve recently been taking cod liver oil, no idea whether that will help or not, but it feels like something that has been around for a looooong time, and maybe that says something?! (wishful thinking alert!)
 
Woolfold said:
Thanks everyone! I definitely have a better knowledge of my condition now.
Besides the tingling, my pinky fingers do lock but I have no knowledge of it until another finger touches it or I try to do something and it gets in the way, then I unlock it.
Besides type 2 diabetes (insulin controlled) I have chronic kidney disease for which I was recently prescribed Forxiga (brand name. Actual drug name dapagliflozin), atrial fibrilation for which I take extreme blood thinners. The dangerous clots actually form in the heart chambers when i miss a beat every minute or so or I get an ectopic 'thump', which feels weird.
Apart from being 67, always tired and in a wheelchair, I am tickety-boo!
I just got some new sockets for my legs and always wear odd socks. Small things amuse small minds.
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Better knowledge is always good, and odd socks are great too!
 
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