What’s wrong with the numbness and swelling of the fingers at night?

Numbness and swelling of the fingers at night may be physiological, such as prolonged compression, or pathologic, such as peripheral neuropathy, cervical spondylosis, forearm nerve entrapment, and stroke and other diseases. Physiological reasons such as long time to finger pressure, can appear finger pain and numbness, generally at this time by lifting the pressure, rest can be relieved. Pathological causes can also occur at night, finger pain and numbness, there are the following common cases. 1. Peripheral neuropathy: for example, common diabetic peripheral neuropathy, there will be abnormal nerve function, resulting in finger pain and numbness. 2. Cervical spondylosis: the protruding intervertebral disc or bone compression of the innervated hand nerve can cause finger swelling, pain, numbness and other symptoms. 3. Forearm nerve compression: such as elbow tube syndrome compression of the ulnar nerve, carpal tunnel syndrome compression of the median nerve, can also cause part of the finger swelling, pain and numbness. 4. Stroke: cerebral thrombosis, cerebral infarction and other strokes will also appear unilateral numbness of the fingers, muscle strength loss and other symptoms. In addition to the above common causes, gout patients with lesions involving the fingers, due to gout stone compression of the finger nerves, there will also be symptoms such as finger swelling, pain and numbness. If the symptoms of finger swelling, pain and numbness occur at night when sleeping, and the symptoms are not relieved after resting, it is recommended that the patient go to the hospital for medical examination to clarify the cause of the disease and then carry out regular treatment.