WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS OF NERVE COMPRESSION?
If someone were squeezing your neck, choking you, you would be yelling and screaming, struggling to get air into your lungs. If your nerve gets choked, or pinched, it also does not get enough oxygen. The nerve makes you aware of this lack of oxygen by sending you a warning message. You will feel buzzing, tingling or numbness in the areas that are supplied by that nerve. Therefore, if the median nerve in your wrist becomes compressed in the carpal tunnel and with the knowledge that the median mere supplies sensation to your thumb, index, middle and ring fingers, you can predict that compression of the median nerve at the wrist, called carpal tunnel syndrome, you cause symptoms in these fingers. Because your wrist bends at night when you sleep, these symptoms often begin at nighttime, or, if they are already present during the day, they will become worse at night. Because the median nerve goes to very few muscles, the only weakness that you may notice from compression of the median nerve
