This past weekend on Saturday morning I woke up with a numb right thumb from the finger tip to the first joint. It's a sensation very similar to when your foot

This past weekend on Saturday morning I woke up with a numb right thumb from the finger tip to the first joint. It's a sensation very similar to when your foot falls asleep. The skin feels sort of "dumb" or almost swollen but not entirely without feeling. Like it has been filled with sand. During the course of the day, it will sometimes shift to a more pin-prick feeling. Touching things - forks, pens, my phone, the keyboard right now - feels really "icky" and sometimes even hurts. And now at times it'll have a hot flash as if it were setting on fire. I got a wrist brace shipped to me on Tuesday. I've not noticed any perceptible change. I'm going to see the doctor on Monday. One thing I have learned is to not Google "numb thumb". You wind up on sites offering the worst possible theories, and none of them help your stress level or mood. I hope this doesn't mean surgery, but I do wonder. This article hit me hard when I stumbled across it. "At least I'm not alone," was the first thought that hit me.