It's weird...often, if I have more sugar than usual in the evening, I wake up with tingly fingers (they feel almost like they've fallen asleep). I know it's more than just that I was sleeping on them wrong or something because the tingliness lasts for about 2 hours after I get up. I never feel it in my feet, only my hands. I don't think it's poor circulation because my hands are not cold or discolored. I have been tested multiple times for diabetes (including regular fasting glucose tests and the glucose tolerance test where they ckeck your fasting blood sugar,then make you go eat something, and then check your blood sugar an hour or whatever after you've eaten), so I know I don't have diabetes. I can eat tons of sugar throughout the day, and I NEVER get this tingliness when I am awake, but like last night, I had a 12" chicken teriyaki sub from Subway with a small bag of SunChips and a diet coke, and this morning, I woke up with the tingly fingers. I know there's sugar in the teriyaki sauce and sweet onion sauce on the sub, but I wouldn't think it's a crazy amount. I was awake for about 2 hours after I ate and felt completely fine, but like I said, tingly fingers when I woke up this morning. It always seems to happen on Friday mornings (we have Subway every Thursday night), yet when I eat Subway on the weekends sometimes during the day, I'm completely fine. It also happens sometimes if I just eat too much junk food in the evening, but never at any other time of day. I went to my neice's brthday party a few weekends ago and had cake with frosting, regular soda, ice cream, and pizza during the day and didn't have any tingliness or anything. Anyone have any ideas
That's odd... Do you do extra typing on a Thursday? Tingly fingers can be a sign of carpell tunnel syndrome. But don't take my word for it! You might want to mention it at the docs next time you go.
I get tingly fingers too. I have done many jobs involving repetitive motion- sanding kitchen cabinents, running cash registers, typing on computers. I have a recurring neck problems which tightens and and sends me to the chiropractor. I told my chiro about the tingly fingers and he said that many people assume they have carpal tunnel syndrome when it is simply a tight muscle in the lower arm right below the elbow. It's hard to for me to explain the exact position in words but it's kind of halfway between the middle of your inner elbow and the top outer side of your arm--it's basically your upper lower arm muscle--I don't remember the medical name. If you push on it you will feel it if it hurts. He massaged the muscle and I continue to do it when the tingle starts again. Maybe you strained it with exercise or with some other repetitive motion that you do at work??
Just something that works for me, try it and see if will for you too.
Jill, I don't know what it is, but both my sister and I have suffered from it on and off of the last few years. It comes and goes... I wish I could tell you what causes it.
I work in an office, so I use a computer all day 5 days a week. It's just weird to me that I can directly correlate the tingly fingers (ONLY ever felt when I first wake up and never at any other time of day) with the evenings in which I eat more than usual.
According to WebMD, I shouldn't worry about it much if my hands are not cold or a different color, completely numb, or if the feeling doesn't go away and come back again throughout the day. I guess it's just one of those freakish things that happens...lucky me
Jill~another test they can do is a hemagobin A.1c It tests the ups and downs of your blood sugar wover the day. I am told it is more accurate in diagnosing sight problems with blood sugar than the glucose test.
If this is not the problem I agree with Jules. Try massaging your arm. It may help.
[QUOTE=jillybean720]I work in an office, so I use a computer all day 5 days a week. It's just weird to me that I can directly correlate the tingly fingers (ONLY ever felt when I first wake up and never at any other time of day) with the evenings in which I eat more than usual.
The times my hand goes numb (and it is usually just the right one) is usually in the evenings and during the night. I once even dropped a bottle of apple juice in the grocery line because my hand went numb. I usuually have to really rub it to get the tingles to stop, but since I have found the sore muscle in the arm it's helped.
It may be carpul tunnel......you may need to have that looked at. I had both my hand worked on for that. I still have trouble some time but not as bad...
Having it worse in the evening and night is a sure sign of repetitive stress injury. It may have nothing to do with your eating, although sugary foods can set off all kinds of inflammation. Just out of curiosity, do you tend to eat those foods when you've had a more stressful day at work? Because the two might just be happening at the same time, not one causing the other.
There are a few other things which mimick CTS.
There are a few tests your Dr will do to diagnose CTS.
Tinel test:the doctor taps on or presses on the median nerve in the patient's wrist. If the "tingles' appear, it's likely to be CTS.
CTS manifests as tingling in the palm side of fingers, thumb, index, third, fourth but not the 5th.
The carpal tunnel is a very narrow opening through which travel 9 muscle tendons and a nerve. The tunnel runs between the carpal bones and the flexor retinaculum. When they are inflammed do to overuse they cause the median nerve to be "pinched"..thus the tingles.
Surgery is quick...less than five minutes but it should be the last resort. Surgery often leaves scarring and may need to be repeated.
I am both a surgical technician and a Massage Therapist.
I have helped clients who thought they had CTS(not diagnosed) with massage.
The median nerve starts way up in the neck and can be entrapped in several different places along the body.
Neck work, specifically scalenes and flexor work along the arm can bring relief.
Talk to a massage therapist in your area. I'm almost certain they can help you.
I get them too. More at times than at others. Several things I've noticed that contribute to them.
1) I tend to bend my wrist while I sleep. It winds up at a right angle to my arm, this makes the hand go numb.
2) If I've done something, some sort of work during the day that stresses my hands I get them more. Some of the things I've noticed make it worse, are laying floor tiles (because I lean on one hand bent at a 90 degree angle to my arm, while sitting on the floor), massaging my husband, or running a rototiller that shakes my hands and makes me grip a handle for a long time. Definitely work related when it happens like that.
3) Sleeping in a certain position will always make my opposite hand go to sleep and tingle. It tends to have to do with a nerve ending that is under my arm. If I sleep with one arm above my head, and pressure on the nerve under that arm, the other side hand will go to sleep and tingle.
4) High carb or high sugar diets, or too much salt will cause my body to retain water, when I retain water my wrists swell just enough to put pressure on those nerves in the wrists, and that will cause the tingly feeling.
What helps. Sometimes taking vitamin B complex will make you lose that extra water retention, plus it replaces some of what the sugar takes away nutritionally. Noticing the position you are sleeping in and making an attempt to keep your wrists straight with your arms helps too.
I'm eating low carb now, Atkins, and I don't have the tingly sensation as much as long as I keep my carbs low. That is because you tend to not retain as much water with low carb.
Anyone else with tingly fingers?
It comes and goes... I wish I could tell you what causes it. 
