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[johnmk]

The left area of my right hand is moderately numb and feeling almost if not identically similar to what occurs sometimes when you wake up in the morning and your foot or arm is asleep. This is felt in my thumb, the webbing between the thumb, and it seems to stop there.

It's persisted all morning, for about the past 5-6 hours at least since I woke up. What, supplement related, might have anything to do with this? This belongs in the Neuroscience because it is neurologically related, perhaps.

My stack consists of the following:

AOR Ortho Core multivitamins (6 per day instead of the recommended 9)
300mg of extra magnesium (citrate salt)
1 baby aspirin daily
6 fish oil caplets daily
500-100mg 4.5% (something) ashwagandha
2-3g of creatine monohydrate
2-3g of piracetam
1g of ALCAR (500mg dose in AM, 500mg at noon)
250mg of ALA (racemic mixture, I'm just waiting till it's used up to buy K/Potassium-R-ALA)
1g Vitamin C from Costco
10-30mg dextroamphetamine (yesterday I took 20mg)

I can't fathom what's causing this (I know niacin can do this, though I don't know if what I have is like neuropathy or not, never had it before), maybe it's just a quirk unrelated to my supplements and it'll vanish today, hopefully. It's not painful just weird, and I hope I'm not overreacting.

Thank you,

-John

[johnmk]

A person here (forum name "Sanction"):

http://forum.avantla...ndpost&p=246314

suggests this:

Hypotheses: Pinched nerve in your neck around C7 or C8; pressure on the nerve in the muscle of the forearm; true Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Treatment modality: Chiropractor

Would a moderator please move this thread to wherever you see fit?

[scottl]

John,

I can't tell from the info you've given but sleeping wrong can have you wake up with the arm "asleep" and in sleeping that way you can ...knock off the nerve and it can take....days or longer to come back. I think this is most common with the ulnar nerve which should be the pinky side of your hand, but perhaps it can involve the other side of the hand, or perhaps I've misunderstood which side of the hand it is.

[jeromewilson]

I'm a web developer and had a mild case of 'mouse hand' (or 'w*nker's wrist', as was suggested by my colleagues) a while back, very similar symptoms to yours. Not sure if you use a mouse a lot but if you do it's worth looking at:

http://www.evoluent.com/

I haven't had any problems sinve I've been using it.