# Ever wake up to your arm numb?
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ever-wake-up-to-your-arm-numb/71325
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [July 30, 2009, 6:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ever-wake-up-to-your-arm-numb/71325 "2009-07-30T06:20:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@JMEZZI](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JMEZZI)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2009, 6:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ever-wake-up-to-your-arm-numb/71325/1 "2009-07-30T06:20:51Z")
I woke up in the last night at like 2 AM to my entire arm from elbow to hand being numb. I felt like I could take a sledge hammer to it and not feel a thing. I was actually getting worried as it was taking a bit longer than usual for the feeling to come back.
I know im cutting off the circulation to my hand/arm but if any anatomy majors are on, is there an explanation as to how this is happens?
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2009, 6:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ever-wake-up-to-your-arm-numb/71325/2 "2009-07-30T06:24:53Z")
def happens to me.
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### Author:  [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2009, 6:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ever-wake-up-to-your-arm-numb/71325/3 "2009-07-30T06:26:49Z")
happens to me for the last 3 years or so. has limited the positions I can sleep in.
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### Author:  [@LAFENGAS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LAFENGAS)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2009, 6:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ever-wake-up-to-your-arm-numb/71325/4 "2009-07-30T06:27:06Z")
usually happens when you try giving yourself a reach-around while sleeping. Do you recall what you were dreaming about? Did it happen to be about playing a trombone in a quartet?
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### Author:  [@Southtowns27](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Southtowns27)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2009, 6:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ever-wake-up-to-your-arm-numb/71325/5 "2009-07-30T06:34:36Z")
This happens when I fall asleep with a hot chick…then at some point during the night some fat ugly chick kicks the hot chick out of my bed and lays on my arm. Chicks dig me
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### Author:  [@97FormulaWS-6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/97FormulaWS-6)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2009, 6:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ever-wake-up-to-your-arm-numb/71325/6 "2009-07-30T06:35:10Z")
Yup; happens a few times a year…
Normally happens when I end up sleeping on my stomach and for some reason am putting all my weight on that arm. Mine normally goes “dead” though… where I can’t move it, feel it, or anyting. It’s painfull as hell as it wakes up though.
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### Author:  [@misteroman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/misteroman)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2009, 6:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ever-wake-up-to-your-arm-numb/71325/7 "2009-07-30T06:46:18Z")
Welcome to my world.My left arm has been numb for a yr and a half now and dr’s seem useless.It’s a pinched nerve and since it goes away for you, you are just aggavating it when you are sleeping.
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2009, 7:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ever-wake-up-to-your-arm-numb/71325/8 "2009-07-30T07:01:33Z")
Good reference article, [Circulatory Relief](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=The%20Inverted%20Stranger). probably best way to deal with it in the morning.
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### Author:  [@klug](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/klug)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2009, 7:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ever-wake-up-to-your-arm-numb/71325/9 "2009-07-30T07:02:54Z")
i get this all the time. one time i my arm fell asleep while i was shitfaced and when i woke up it was curled in like it had died lol.
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### Author:  [@ShiftDead](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ShiftDead)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2009, 7:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ever-wake-up-to-your-arm-numb/71325/10 "2009-07-30T07:04:24Z")
I normally would go into some redic. medical explanation but I will save you the trouble of reading a wall of text.
-Switch your sleep position
-If this does not solve the problem see a MD
-Sleeping on your arm restricts blood flow causing numbness
-Sitting there will not instantly cause blood to start flowing again, stand up for better results
/profit
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### Author:  [@ShiftDead](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ShiftDead)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2009, 7:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ever-wake-up-to-your-arm-numb/71325/11 "2009-07-30T07:05:17Z")
> [@misteroman$$$](#):
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> Welcome to my world.My left arm has been numb for a yr and a half now and dr’s seem useless.It’s a pinched nerve and since it goes away for you, you are just aggavating it when you are sleeping.
Sounds like nerve damage, not much you can do with this.
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### Author:  [@Treads4Heads](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Treads4Heads)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2009, 7:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ever-wake-up-to-your-arm-numb/71325/12 "2009-07-30T07:07:10Z")
> [@ShiftDead](#):
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> Sounds like nerve damage, not much you can do with this.
Quickly! get that man some blue m&m’s
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### Author:  [@Jcards26](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jcards26)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2009, 7:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ever-wake-up-to-your-arm-numb/71325/13 "2009-07-30T07:14:13Z")
i was just telling my gf about this yesterday how it happens to me… kinda ironic
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2009, 7:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ever-wake-up-to-your-arm-numb/71325/14 "2009-07-30T07:35:20Z")
used to happen to me every night. I sleep with my arm under the pillow, and my head on top of the pillow, on top of my arm.
I got a memory foam pillow at Target and it hasn’t happened since :tup:
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### Author:  [@2TurboZ](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/2TurboZ)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2009, 7:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ever-wake-up-to-your-arm-numb/71325/15 "2009-07-30T07:38:38Z")
I do not look at this as a bad thing…you have to seize the opportunity when it arises.
Wake up in morning = morning wood…gets old and boring.
Wake up in morning + numb arm + morning wood = great way to start the day.
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### Author:  [@ShiftDead](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ShiftDead)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2009, 7:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ever-wake-up-to-your-arm-numb/71325/16 "2009-07-30T07:42:01Z")
> [@boardjnky4](#):
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> used to happen to me every night. I sleep with my arm under the pillow, and my head on top of the pillow, on top of my arm.
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> I got a memory foam pillow at Target and it hasn’t happened since :tup:
Bingo!
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### Author:  [@travisn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/travisn)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2009, 8:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ever-wake-up-to-your-arm-numb/71325/17 "2009-07-30T08:15:05Z")
how about waking up with a cramped calf. holy shit does that hurt!
or waking up, but not being able to move or open your eyes. that is scary has hell.
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### Author:  [@fbrendan](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fbrendan)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2009, 8:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ever-wake-up-to-your-arm-numb/71325/18 "2009-07-30T08:19:21Z")
> [@boardjnky4](#):
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> used to happen to me every night. I sleep with my arm under the pillow, and my head on top of the pillow, on top of my arm.
In on this crew.
> [@travisn](#):
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> how about waking up with a cramped calf. holy shit does that hurt!
This one too. 😢
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### Author:  [@klug](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/klug)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2009, 9:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ever-wake-up-to-your-arm-numb/71325/19 "2009-07-30T09:06:22Z")
> [@Jcards26](#):
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> i was just telling my gf about this yesterday how it happens to me… kinda ironic
how sir? how?
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2009, 9:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ever-wake-up-to-your-arm-numb/71325/20 "2009-07-30T09:09:41Z")
> [@2TurboZ](#):
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> I do not look at this as a bad thing…you have to seize the opportunity when it arises.
>
> Wake up in morning = morning wood…gets old and boring.
>
> Wake up in morning + numb arm + morning wood = great way to start the day.
Word. It’s not a problem, it’s a gift from God. Haven’t you ever heard of “the stranger”?
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