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Laura
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 Posted - 12/23/2004 : 23:04:43
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Do any of you experience the sensation of your hands falling asleep during the night while you are sleeping? This is a new one for me but just kind of crept up on me this week. I know I'm REALLY stressed to the max but what the heck is this??? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. I'm sure it's some TMS equivalent or another, or maybe I'm just oblivious and it's been posted here many times before. At any rate, I'm too tired to go back and look so if someone can help me I'd appreciate it. I haven't slept the past two nights, and the little sleep I've had has been interruped with a pins and needles sensation in the hand of whatever side I'm lying on.
Laura
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Posted - 12/24/2004 : 02:05:07
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Yes, Laura - that was something that happened to me - still does, in fact. Usually at night, often when wakening, I used to get pins and needles, usually in my left arm and hand, but sometimes in both hands and feet. I think that my doctor said that it was a form of Reynaud's disease. My mother has always said that she suffers from Reynaud's - so I think that I was just getting in on that act.
I treated it as TMS and learned to ignore it. Occasionally, it still happens - it did yesterday, in fact, in the food store - it was so crowded that people couldn't move for shopping trolleys. Stress seems to make this happen to me at times - my hands actually turn white when it happens. To be honest, I don't let it bother me now. By the time that I'd loaded the shopping, it had gone.
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Wilf
Canada
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Posted - 12/24/2004 : 09:07:43
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I have posted about this at least twice in the past. I have had similar numbness or tingling, only in my left arm and hand. I used to wake up in the middle of the night (every night) with numbness radiating down my arm to my fingers. Later, this changed to pain and then excruciating pain. I was told I had "thoracic outlet syndrome". However, when a situation in my life changed, the pain went away instantly and never returned. I was totally unaware that this particular situation was producing rage within me; but obviously, it was.
To answer your question specifically: TMS can and does manifest itself in that manner. |
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Baseball65
USA
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Posted - 12/24/2004 : 15:50:16
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Hi Laura.
all the time.I've been waking lately up with my right shoulder "scrunched" in what feels like an impossible position,tingling/numb and the sense of no control over straightening....I can't feel a thing from my neck to my fingers..it's almost comical...My wife will see me and go "What's wrong"(so it's obviously noticeable)
I just say "nothing" cause that's the truth...it's sort of funny after awhile...it feels GROSS not painful...I just move around and it goes away.Takes about 60 seconds to be gone.
I have always had the symptoms of Reynauds,though I was never diagnosed with it(thank goodness!)
At work,my feet can get so cold/numb ,I could stick a needle in them and not feel it.If I sit on the toilet too long reading,I can't feel my legs when I get up...for about 60 seconds.Once I got involved in a really interesting article,and I couldn't walk away....had to lie down for 5 minutes before the feeling came back.
I also get it in my left shoulder if I lie flat for any length of time....never scared because I know what's going on,and because I know what's going on,it goes away as soon as I become aware......seconds.
Interesting,My son who is only 11 has it too.If he sits too long he gets up like a 70 year old man.His little brother even spoofs him ,doing a little skit walking stiff legged..it's a riot!
anyways,I and my son both have really bony derriers,and I suppose the sciatic artery is in a place where certain positions cut down on a little bit of blood flow...nothing scary and certainly not a "problem" ....just a minor nuisance.
So minor,in fact,that I've never even associated it with stress....Hmmmm,maybe I'll see where I'm at the next time it happens.
Have a merry xmas!
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Edited by - Baseball65 on 12/24/2004 15:51:40 |
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JoeC
USA
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Posted - 12/25/2004 : 00:24:22
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Yes, had that. I think it is a TMS blood flow thing.
About 5 years ago I had a rough period, hovering around and slipping into depression, and I would wake up with a numb hand/arm. I had the sleeping arm thing in the past, which I think is quite common (doesn't Bill Cosby have a bit on it, swinging his numb arm around, etc.). But during this period it would take a few full seconds for sensation to even start to return, it was very disturbing as it stayed "dead" longer that usual.
I am certain now these manifestations were not merely "physical".
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Susie
USA
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Posted - 12/25/2004 : 09:17:28
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| You guys wanna hear something funny? I read this post yesterday and coincidentally was having a bad day. I,too, used to have the arm numbness with hand tingling at night. I woke up about 2 this morning with the same symptoms. My brain is not very original. It is pretty funny though. It was gone in 5 minutes. |
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Laura
USA
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Posted - 12/25/2004 : 21:47:02
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Thanks everyone! I am leaving in about twelve hours for my "road trip" to Texas and have been feeling stressed out so I guess that anything is possible, right? Tonight I blew a gasket at my daughter, who I have been remaining calm with for days on end. I finally just "lost it" with her over her behavior and I'm feeling a little better. I'm hoping for a "numb free" evening tonight but I'm glad to hear I'm not alone and that it's probably just the "gremlin" doing it's work again.
Happy New Year to everyone!
Laura
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tms-be-gone
USA
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Posted - 12/26/2004 : 12:06:19
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| Numbness and tingling in the arms, well let’s see I have had it for 12 years now and counting. I have tried everything under the sun for treatment and nothing has seemed to work 100%. The closest I have come is with Chinese medicine, but the relief is only temporary and seems to come back. When one thinks about it, laying down on the bed has to be the easiest activity known to humans. How is it that people’s limbs go numb? The more I am studying the effects of oxygen deprivation, I have realized that the slow movement of blood throughout the limbs can cause increased effects of deprivation due to stagnant blood in the limbs at night while sleeping. I hope this helps. |
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Hands falling asleep at night
