Have any of you had issues with your hands or arms going numb while you sleep, and/or daytime too depending on position and think it could be related to tendon/nerve damage after years of machining/welding and moving material around? I've had to be careful with carpel tunnel for 12+years and kept it under control.
A few months ago after about a year of spending 80+hr/wk in the shop(still mostly manual lathe/mill work). I started waking up with numb fingers/hands or whole forearm, sometimes left, sometimes right, or both, but its usually 4 fingers and pinky doesn't seem numb. Then I got a little bit caught up and did some easy/light work for a few weeks and it stopped for a about month or so. Then I got into moving the shop this last month and its gotten a lot worse. Moving/lifting a lot of heavier things, a lot of scrubbing/cleaning, etc and now I'm running out of ways to move my arms around to get the tingling to stop.
I really don't think its heart related, only early/mid 30's, half decent shape, pretty sure if I was to have a heart attack it would be over with by now... still gonna get checked in the next little while if it doesn't ease up with the move being almost over. I'll try to do a few less hours in the shop to see if it recovers, its definitely time for a few work process and life changes.
Anyone else have something like that probably related to over use of their hands/arms?, maybe a light spinal cord damage somewhere or just tendons overworked? A few weeks ago I had 1 guy who moves metal all day mention not having felt his hands in years, but I didn't dig into it to find out more.
thanks for your input!
A few months ago after about a year of spending 80+hr/wk in the shop(still mostly manual lathe/mill work). I started waking up with numb fingers/hands or whole forearm, sometimes left, sometimes right, or both, but its usually 4 fingers and pinky doesn't seem numb. Then I got a little bit caught up and did some easy/light work for a few weeks and it stopped for a about month or so. Then I got into moving the shop this last month and its gotten a lot worse. Moving/lifting a lot of heavier things, a lot of scrubbing/cleaning, etc and now I'm running out of ways to move my arms around to get the tingling to stop.
I really don't think its heart related, only early/mid 30's, half decent shape, pretty sure if I was to have a heart attack it would be over with by now... still gonna get checked in the next little while if it doesn't ease up with the move being almost over. I'll try to do a few less hours in the shop to see if it recovers, its definitely time for a few work process and life changes.
Anyone else have something like that probably related to over use of their hands/arms?, maybe a light spinal cord damage somewhere or just tendons overworked? A few weeks ago I had 1 guy who moves metal all day mention not having felt his hands in years, but I didn't dig into it to find out more.
thanks for your input!