So who else wakes up with numb and tingling arms and hands?

[Deja Q]

Check in!

[laylah]

1. I do!

and have for years. Getting an adjustment helps but with no insurance to cover :shrug: I just "dance" around, flailing my arms until they wake up. you?

Jenn

[Deja Q]

2. I keep telling myself nothing is forever.

And then proceed to live my life as if nothing's happened.

[Darth_Kitten]

3. I've woken up not being able to move my arms....

they are like lead weights....seriously, I have to get the circulation going again...

first time this happened I was freaked.

[REP]

4. Wake Up and Go to Sleep with Numb Tingling Hands

Nerve damage, neuropathy and chronic inflammation. It's fun and exciting!

for got to add: Same goes for the feet! Yeefuckinghaw!

[Mutley]

5. Sometimes I sleep with my head on my hand

and it takes awhile for the blood to go rushing back in after I wake up.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

6. I do. It is fairly recent

I used to if I slept funny on them, but now they get going in regular positions. Very annoying.

[Bossy Monkey]

7. President! This is actually an improvement; it used to be my skull

and sometimes my chest. But the tingling hands every couple of hours is still pretty frickin' annoying.

[yellowdogintexas]

8. my doc says it is nerve root compression in the thoracic vertebra

area, more or less between the shoulder blades.

especially if the numbness seems to localize in the outer two fingers and the outside
of the palmar area. I thought it was carpal tunnel, doc says not so then pressed on the vertebra to illustrate. With my heavy boobs, and the desk work I do, it made sense to me. It is a totally different feeling from circulation being cut off, too.

[Bossy Monkey]

10. I'm more on the tingly end than the numbness one, but this makes sense

as I had whiplash 12 years ago and never had it treated in any way (not being a lawsuit-filing kind of boy). Also, when I last saw a doctor, he told me I wasn't having circulation problems, so nerve damage would be the likely second explanation. Now, why does it only happen when I'm sleeping? That I can't quite figure. Maybe holding one position causes the nerve impulses to build up? Just a guess.

[yellowdogintexas]

17. bad positioning may compress the nerve root, not enough to

cause pain at that spot but enough to shut down impulses.

Tingly can be part of diabetic neuropathy too, but more in the feet than the hands

[El Fuego]

9. That happened to me for the first time this morning!

It's weird that you posted this. My right hand was numb for a while after I got up this morning, it was freaking me out.

[ernstbass]

11. Yes

I wake up with tingling hands because I ball my hand ino a fist and sleep with it under my head.

[radwriter0555]

12. Honey, when are you getting that new mattress? And change the pillows too.

Clearly you're out of alignment.

Get at least four REAL down pillows. NOT feather pillows. DOWN pillows.

And get that latex mattress.

*you know I'm right*

[Nikia]

13. Only once in a while

I think that it happens when I sleep oddly.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

14. Sometimes. Especially if I've slept on my elbow, the groove where

the nerve (ulnar nerve) crosses. Then the hand is feeble and the last two fingers numb and tingly until the circulation returns.

I once did this really badly once, and it took a while until the strength came back to the hand. Really scary, I even had difficulty turning a car key in the ignition.

A preview of being old and infirm after a stroke.

[dajoki]

15. It sucks, doesn't it?

:banghead:

[Monk06]

16. Don't drink alcohol before going to bed. Take lots of B vitamins..

Drink more water during the day.

Your probably not changing positions while you
sleep and you are cutting off blood circulation
at a major pressure point (shoulders, hips and knees)

I had this problem and my tibialis muscle went lame
so I sleep with a pillow between my knees.

[swag]

18. I like this thread so much because of all the ads it's pulling.

Just for starters:

[acmavm]

19. Go see a doctor. I had surgery in 92 for a smashed disk in my neck.

I was going to be paralyzed from the neck down eventually without surgery. If I would have fallen, it would have happened sooner.

Long story short, they took my right hip and made me a new disk and fused them.

But three weeks ago I found out the one above and the one below where they fixed me up last time are, going and that's why the symptoms are back. But definitely not as serious as before because I still have disks. They're just all out of whack.

This is not uncommon. I know two other people who've had the same problem but not as seriously as I did. So get it checked out because what happens is the muscles in your arms and upper body start to atrophy. It really becomes a problem because they arms are numb and uncooperative but it's very painful at the same time because your spinal cord is being scrunched.

[Deja Q]

20. I had a disc removed over a year ago.

The neurologist, this time, said he wouldn't authorize a MRI for the neck (not an easy decision, but he also said there was nothing that could be done if anything did show up. Whatever that means, I have no idea.)

I'll know the lower back results by Thursday, for a separate problem.