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What Causes Numbness In Hand While Having High Cholesterol?
Can using crutches cause my left hand to go numb and dysfunctional? I have had high cholesterol and recently had stint procedure by heart catheter. I also have a heart murmur and high cholesterol. My left wrist is very weak and most of numbness is in thumb and wrist and goes up arm slightly, but no pain. Could this be an emergency or heart or stroke related or just compression of a nerve due to use of crutches along with aggravation of my carpal tunnel in left wrist and tennis elbow in left elbow?
Tue, 29 Mar 2016
Numbness from using crutches should get better soon after getting rid of the crutches. Both tennis elbow and carpal tunnel could cause wrist weakness but this should be a long going problem. however a cervical radiculopathy needs to be excluded and a stroke as well need to be excluded
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