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Noah930, thanks for taking the time, that was educational. Wdfifteen, thanks for the actual experience.

For me, years of tennis, rock climbing, computer, if I bend my elbow 90 degree+ more than 20 seconds, I start losing feeling in the pinkie and ring finger - both sides. Unflex - 5 seconds later all is well.. Not a huge deal, zero pain, zero muscle loss. But the problem is it wakes me up at night, MANY times. The brain sends a warning or something and wakes me up. I've been sleeping with splints but frankly it makes it hard to get a good night sleep so I often wake up with the splint 10 ft away ;-) Apparently I'm angry in my sleep!

The specialist I saw IMMEDIATELY was signing me up for the transposition surgery detailed above by Noah, no injections, no therapy, nothing, boom, "I'll slice this and in 6 months you'll be able to sleep on your belly again with the arm bent under the pillow" followed reluctantly by "maybe - for most people, some have weird tingling for longer, the nerve doesn't like being moved"... And when I brought that up with friends at work I heard lots of so-so feedback on this procedure's results (trasnposition). So all I'm doing here is gathering data. I am not planning on doing it unless it stays numb or gets painful.

Right now I'm stretching / gliding the nerve and mousing left handed, and also no longer commuting thanks to Covid so it's less pronounced during the day (Right is way worse than left but I have both). Also it's worse in the AM right after waking up, first drive of the day I'd often have numb fingers... Rest of the day is fine - no issues unless I'm on the phone holding it to my ear. Not even typing... Mostly a sleep issue for me.

Will take more comments if any. Thanks again...

PS: also gotta go do a sleep apnea test, so good sleep matters, if I end up on CPAP + splints, I might as well buy Darth Vader's special seat and forget about ever getting shuteye ;-)