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@beckiw814

Jennifer,
Thanks so much for all of the information. Foods do not seem to affect me. I have been waking up with severe nerve pain in my left hand. It seems to begin at my lower cervical spine, up around my shoulder and down the left arm to my finger tips. I am NOT diabetic. Although I wake up due to the pain it comes and goes with different levels of pain through the day. I think I’m going to call my primary care physician tomorrow because I cannot get into my neurologist until December.

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John, Volunteer Mentor | @johnbishop | Sep 16, 2018

Hello @beckiw814, Welcome to Connect. I see you have already received some great information from @jenniferhunter. I have small fiber PN with only numbness for a symptom in both feet and into my ankles. I also have polymyalgia rheumatica that is currently in remission. One of the symptoms I've had in the past when it came back was waking up with pain and stinging in my left arm and hand. My primary care physician thought it might have be a pinched nerve when I told her I mostly sleep on my side and was always sleeping on my left side when I would wake up with the pain. After the PMR went into remission I stopped having trouble with it when sleeping on my left side. Mayo Clinic has some information on pinched nerves on their website:
-- https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/pinched-nerve/symptoms-causes/syc-20354746

@beckiw814 can you let us know if you learn anything else from your primary car doctor?

John

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