does your arm fall asleep while you sleep?

[Ketia0 0]

I woke up last night about 3am, and couldnt feel my right arm. it was completely dead... Im assuming i slept on it, and cut off the circulation..

Anywho. It took awhile of biting, pinching, and throwing the stupid arm around to get good blood flow..

does this happen to anyone else? How bad is that? cause it happens to me quite a bit

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[rehmwa 2]

yes

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[BillyVance 34]

It happens to me once in a while. I tend to tuck my arms in when I sleep on my stomach.

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[SARLDO 0]

"does your arm fall asleep while you sleep?"

I sure hope so, I would hate to think what it's doing while the rest of me is asleep.

But seriously, it happens to me all the time. I fall asleep on my side and often wake up on my stomach with one arm under my pillow and "asleep".

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[Harmless 0]

All the time... wait till both of them fall asleep makes getting out of bed fun

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[Andy0689 0]

Was there a fat chick laying on it right before you woke up? That could potentially be a cause.

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[Heatmiser 0]

If your leg does don't get out of bed till it wakes up, someone on here said they broke their ankle stepping out of bed. That would SUCK!

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[regulator 0]

Nice one Andy...BBBUUURRRNNN!

[Ketia0 0]

Well, im gald im not the only one this crap happens too.

I was thinking about it though... I wonder if you sleep to long could anything happen? Like blood clot or something? ( I dont know much about Biology or how the body works... Im an oil guy)

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[skyrider 0]

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[ryoder 1,590]

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If it ever happens to me, I intend to take the opertunity to get some strange!

I was expecting HappyThoughts to chime in with that suggestion.

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[wayneflorida 0]

It is ok unless the place you sleep has rats and they
are hungry.

[MikeJD 0]

I think if there was any real danger then we'd know about it. Maybe if you slept on your arm for a week or something you could do some permanent damage.

It's a bit creepy having no feeling though, isn't it? It's as if there's somebody else's disembodied limb in bed with you. And the only time you realise how much your arm actually weighs is when you have to pick it up with your other hand!

Like Billy said, sleeping on both arms is a recipe for disaster. You have to squirm your way out of bed.

[Squeak 17]

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I think if there was any real danger then we'd know about it. Maybe if you slept on your arm for a week or something you could do some permanent damage.

It's a bit creepy having no feeling though, isn't it? It's as if there's somebody else's disembodied limb in bed with you. And the only time you realise how much your arm actually weighs is when you have to pick it up with your other hand!

Like Billy said, sleeping on both arms is a recipe for disaster. You have to squirm your way out of bed.

Some people who pass out from booze have awoken to find they have permanent nerve damage from this.
Under normal circumstances your body will wake you up before any real damage has occurred, but it can has has caused damages to the extremities.

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[liftedtitan 0]

If i sit on the bowl for a long time, you know get involved with reading or something, both my legs fall asleep. Then when i get up and walk they feel like stubs, its so weird.

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[riddler 0]

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I was expecting HappyThoughts to chime in with that suggestion.

My thoughts are never as fun, but here's a plain old boring one.

My chiropractor described a triangle between the collarbone, and various muscles in the shoulder and neck. Between all this run blood vessels and nerves. When you sleep on your shoulder (most of us do), you compress that triangle, which impedes the blood vessels and nerves. Some people have that compression all the time, it's called Thoracic Outlet Syndrome.

I don't have T.O.S., but usually my pinky finger falls asleep when I'm too long on one side.

How do you resolve this? A few different ways - I have a temperfoam bed, and I never get that when I sleep on it. Another way is to retrain your head position when you sleep, using a cylindrical pillow. A chiropractor can help you identify the cause and do something about it.

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[MikeJD 0]

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Some people who pass out from booze have awoken to find they have permanent nerve damage from this.
Under normal circumstances your body will wake you up before any real damage has occurred, but it can has has caused damages to the extremities.

OK, you've scared me now.

I'm either never drinking, or never sleeping, again.

[DrewEckhardt 0]

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Some people who pass out from booze have awoken to find they have permanent nerve damage from this.
Under normal circumstances your body will wake you up before any real damage has occurred, but it can has has caused damages to the extremities.

Shanna Hiles had her legs amputated after she passed out on her 20th birthday and cut-off circulation to them:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/09/national/main5951408.shtml

[Harmless 0]

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Some people who pass out from booze have awoken to find they have permanent nerve damage from this.
Under normal circumstances your body will wake you up before any real damage has occurred, but it can has has caused damages to the extremities.

OK, you've scared me now.

I'm either never drinking, or never sleeping, again.

Well, I know which one I'm giving up

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[ltdiver 3]

Otherwise known as Saturday Night Palsy or Honeymooner's Palsy.

Pretty funny how this article reports young healthy men can develop this syndrome.

ltdiver

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[ridestrong 1]

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Well, im gald im not the only one this crap happens too.

I was thinking about it though... I wonder if you sleep to long could anything happen? Like blood clot or something? ( I dont know much about Biology or how the body works... Im an oil guy)

Its not from cutting off blood circulation... Its from pressure on a branch of nerves called the Brachial Plexus. Very very rarely can it cause any long lasting symptoms. We used to see homeless people in the ER that had prolonged symptoms due to passing out on hard surfaces such as park benches. The added factor why they would experience this is because of alcohol induced sleep and they would not move for up to 12 hours etc... The average person will continue to move as they sleep even though you may wake up with a numb extremity from time to time.

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