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Does anyone suffer from random hand cramping and finger contractures?
I am at wit’s end with a problem I’ve been having with my hands and fingers. My hands randomly have spasms and my fingers randomly contract. In particular, the fingers that contract are my index finger in my middle finger and occasionally my thumb. My fingers curl inward towards my palm and will not release for a few minutes. I saw a hand specialist last week who took x-rays and checked me for carpal tunnel and trigger finger, and said I did not have any major issues with my hands. He thought the issue might be spine/nerve related and he referred me to a neurologist. The neurologist ordered blood tests to see if I had any vitamin/mineral deficiencies and also ordered a thyroid test. All results have come back normal. Something has got to be causing the painful spasms and the finger contractions. The neurologist prescribed Gabapentin, and I just started taking it. Has anyone else had experience with random hand spasms and finger contractions?
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Hi I have a lot of hand issues very similar to yours. My main problem fingers are the ring and middle of both hands. They have recently started to swell and are extremely painful. But I have a lot more symptoms. They can check if there is cervical involvement when they do the nerve conduction studies and EMG's so im not sure why he did not check while he was doing them if he thought it was spine/nerve related. Thats what they did for me anyway. I have dupuytrens chords showing in one of my palms but briefly it was the main cause of my pain. After 6 yrs I was diagnosed with Hereditary Spastic paraplegia but they are unwilling to definitively say thats what is causing my hands to be a mess. My knuckles are all swollen and fingers are all so stiff and my hands get ice cold. Cold temperature really makes them spasms or if im over tired my body locks up too. The vascular doctor said it was dysautonomia. I kept getting passed around by the doctors and they all want to send me to rheumatology but every test is normal and they say it isn't anything autoimmune. I refuse to take gabapentin it scares me. I have been given robaxin for my spasms and it works pretty decent. I get spasms all over not just my hands. It doesn't take me out like the others. I also use a paraffin wax bath for my hands and have a litte massage that kinda looks like those things you put your hands in to dry your nails at the salon but it has air pockets that cycle and it massages your hands. It works enough to put me to sleep lol. I hope you get some answers.