[gbsb]

Ok, I've been kind of annoyed and concerned about a lot of my TOS symptoms coming back recently.

What's new and concerning me the most is the uncontrollable twitching of my fingers. Usually the middle and index finger. I've also had a feeling like my whole hand and arm want to start twitching but don't. I just feel shaky.

Anyone else ever have finger or hand twitching?

[Jomar]

Mine never twitched but I used to get sharp cramps in the back of my hands. I also have lost a lot of my fine finger coordination.

I have sloppy handwriting, can't pick up tiny things and hit the wrong keys often when typing!

I love/need my built in spell check !
thank you Firefox... LOL

Does your dr know of these new things, just to be sure it's not something else causing it?

[tshadow]

Yes,

I am reminded of Frankenstein as I watch my thumb switch and move on / off, on / off...or a finger may twitch out / in, out / in. It usually means I have used my hands too much and now the next day I will have major hand swelling.

[astern]

oh yes, my hands shake, fingers twitch, and sometimes a whole quadrant will jump! I had it checked out - not parkensons (whew), nerve damage is what they called it. I notice it when I try to take a photo, or hold a glass of anything. I can controll it, but if i'm not paying attention, I can find fingers shaking. It seems to happen when I'm fatigued.

Nobody else seems to notice.

[trixlynn]

My hands twitch like crazy. I cannot count on them for anything. I constantly spill coffee, drop things. No one else seems to notice, at least until I drop something. You are not alone.

[TraceyW]

no twitches (yet!) i do have a tremor in my little finger on my affected side - fine motor skills are noticeable less on that side too, muscle wasteage on the padded part of my thumb and wrist as well....

[(Broken Wings)]

Hi,

Well, my thumbs have twitched before and my 1st finger on the left hand. My pad and thumbs hurt. in late 2007 and 08 ended up with a right triggering thumb for which I underwent injections on two different occasions. The 2nd did help. I'm much better but can't do all I want. Grip and pinch is painful most of the time. SO I avoid excessive use. Like, I'll use my left thumb for the spacebar.

Dr. Atasoy thinks the thumb problems are from TOS. He's probably right. Hard to imagine, though, my ribs can cause pain to my thumbs. I guess that's what they get paid the big bucks for.

I've used Lidoderm patches on my thumbs. Did get to try the Flector patches and they seem to help if I overuse my thumbs.

[tied]

i have had finger twitching in the past. i still get it occasionally but not to the same extent anymore. sometimes i got a whole limb jerking, arm or leg.

since stopping my job (although technically not work) my symptoms are worse, not better. i think it is stress makes me clench. my job was always a nice distraction for me and kept my mind off the stress of living under primitive conditions. now i have the time to better my living conditions, but this is work and i have found that it is harder on me than my job was. i have to really concentrate hard before picking anything up, because of thumb pain. if i pick it up wrong it will hurt. then i start clenching even thinking of working. by bedtime i am a piece of rebar.

[(Broken Wings)]

Originally Posted by tied

i have had finger twitching in the past. i still get it occasionally but not to the same extent anymore. sometimes i got a whole limb jerking, arm or leg.

since stopping my job (although technically not work) my symptoms are worse, not better. i think it is stress makes me clench. my job was always a nice distraction for me and kept my mind off the stress of living under primitive conditions. now i have the time to better my living conditions, but this is work and i have found that it is harder on me than my job was. i have to really concentrate hard before picking anything up, because of thumb pain. if i pick it up wrong it will hurt. then i start clenching even thinking of working. by bedtime i am a piece of rebar.

Oh, Tied. I used wrist splints with thumb spicas when I was doing work around the house and kitchen. would even cut up veggies in them. Wore two pair out. Washed them to death.

I could look the name up and try to find it for you. They were very hard to find when I needed to replace them. The splints with no thumb spica hurt my thumbs.

I also used Kinesio tape for my thumbs and wrists. That helped too.

I've treated my thumbs with lights too.

Also had my limit of injections to right thumb.

[tshadow]

Originally Posted by (Broken Wings)

Hi,

Dr. Atasoy thinks the thumb problems are from TOS. He's probably right. Hard to imagine, though, my ribs can cause pain to my thumbs.

I was really confused by this comment.

It isn't "your ribs" doing this - you know how the dermatomes go showing where the nerves leave your brain, get crushed or have been micro-injured up about two inches from your chin, on your neck.

That is the thoracic inlet /outlet where the nerve bundles and vein an arteries flow. I will get Dimarie to post her Dermatomes chart so you can see which nerves come down to what part of the hand, forearm, arm.

Often, we test TOS by an EMG / nerve test. If they put the electric point in your back, up by your neck, (I call it the quaimoto's hump area) and then measure how fast it travels, IF it is SLOW, this is indicative of neurogenic TOS. However, you can still test normal and have TOS. That is what is so frustrating is that we don't have one single, for sure, test for TOS. It is a matter of collecting the symptoms, ruling out by tests other disease such as cervical radiculopathy, and then the skilled doctor can conclude the diagnosis as such. This is why there is so much argument. But no one can argue that neuro TOS exists, and that many people get it because they overwork on a computer and their bodies just aren't made to fit the computer work station model. We come in all shapes and sizes, and just like someone is susceptible to heart disease due to inherited traits, I think we also have some who develop micro-damage to the nerves / wrists / neck which at some point may blow up into a full-blown neuro TOS where the nerves are misfiring, over-firing, misreading information, thinking its under attack or should be in pain or should be swelling, etc.

Does that make sense to the neuro TOSers? Just my thoughts...