i woke up this morning sleeping w/ a stranger…my right arm!!
I routinely wake up w/ a couple fingers numb…usually the last 2 fingers on my right hand. This is an ulnar nerve deal and usually pops back into action fairly quickly. But this AM my entire right arm was numb! Weird! Never in 37yrs has this happened. It was the strangest feeling as it “woke-up”. and all day today it has just felt a little weird.
Anyone ever had this happen??
HC
Hope you didn’t drop any babies today because of your numb arm.
You have every guys dream job, you know that, right?
I have had this happen a couple of times. But fortunately it was of my own doing. It was when I slept on my stomach, and had my arm under my head. I woke up and I felt this “dead” thing under my head. I couldn’t move it, and I had to take my “good” arm to pick up the “dead” arm and fling it over the edge of the bed to speed up the blood flow. It was pretty funny and scary at the same time. I couldn’t move the arm at all (fingers, hand, elbow joint, everything.) I now know what it would be like if my arm died and had no use/feeling in it. It was weird. Almost like my arm was ripped/cut off and I had to pick it up and do something with it.
Like GasMonkey this happens to me if I sleep on my stomach with my arms under my head/pillow. Actually happens quite often and sometimes it is both arms. We are talking all the way up into the shoulder. VERY strange feeling as I have to kinda “slink” to the edge of the bed using my waist.
Funny to hear your discription of dragging your arms to the edge of the bed and kinda flinging them over so the blood will go back in there. Gotta love the tingly feeling that follows.
Glad to know I am not alone…just hope nobody breaks into my house in the night while that is happening…talk about helpless!
Michael
Hope you didn’t drop any babies today because of your numb arm.
You have every guys dream job, you know that, right?
“Only an occasional pearl my young Jedi…”
HC, aka Ob-Gyn Kenobi
What’s your blood pressure like? If it’s really low you could easily be cutting off just enough blood flow to cause it to go numb. I was having both arms fall asleep a lot and finally went to an endocrinologist and found out my thyroid was wayyyy out of whack (too low), which is what caused very low blood pressure. As soon as I got on thyroid hormmone my syptoms went away completely.
Other symptoms of hypothyroidism include weight gain, lethargy, mood swings and constipation. Any of this ring true??
Good Luck, I know it’s a scary feeling to wake up to not feeling your arm. Just don’t throw it against anything for shits and grins because when the feeling seeps back in after 30 seconds it’s gonna hurt!
Karma
It hasn’t happened for a couple of years, but, yeah…I used to…it would be stuck below me and I couldn’t turn over in my half-dazed sleep…I nearly freaked out several times when it happened.