Up all night; bummer. Does it then keep your leg up all night too (middle one)? :)

Had to find a new posture a well. I let the pillows hold my head now, and assume a prayer like posture with the arms. It helps a lot.

i've had it a few times, it doesn't happen often
and only when i'm in some really, really bad sleeping position (couch)

i just hope my cat never figures it out he can chew without me feeling it...that rat-bastard is always hungry, and he don't care how big or what it's attached to ...it's food to him

Happened a few times. The first, was at summer camp. I ad a dream my arms were cut off, I woke up in a panic and I couldn't move my arms, even worse was the fact that my blanket was covering my arms, so while a bit groggy, I freaked as I thought my arms were really gone.

Turns out my arms had some how fallen off the bunk bed and cut off circulation to both arms. All I could do was sit in bed until both arms could move again.

this one time, at band camp...:D

Try this. Position yourself as you would for sleep. Using an index finger, have someone compare the strength of the pulse in the thumb sides of your wrists. If they are significantly different (less palpable in your down arm), you may well be experiencing little if any arterial blood flow to your arm when asleep (many people have a significantly lower blood pressure when asleep) aka thoracic outlet syndrome. Of course, YMMV and this information is worth exactly what you paid for it SmileWavy

It's happens to me depending how I sleep.

My limp arm also hit me in the face. You're half asleep and BAM WTF.

wait till it happens to one of your legs and you don't relize it till you get up to pee - trust me, it ain't pretty. I spilt my chin open on a table due to this (and nearly pissed my pants) but my wife did find any humor in it.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

Mike, your leg incident reminded me of one of mine.


Wifey and I were at Lamaze class for our first child. My leg fell asleep, I went to get up and fell over like a drunk, spilling my coffee all over the wife and the floor. I must have looked like Jim Carrey when he gets shot with the darts in "Ace Ventura".

Your nerves ARE dying when you cut them off. Unlike your brain and spinal cord (Central Nervous System, CNS), the other nerves (Peripheral Nervous System, PNS) in your body WILL eventually regenerate (how well, that is individual and dependent on other factors). Recommended you do not sleep on your arm anymore.

I killed the nerves in my left hand fingers riding a sport bike. Spent all day on it, just leaning hard on my wrist, with all that vibration, etc. Weird. Did not have feeling in my fingers for about a week.

I hate when that happens. Wouldn't it be nice if you could take your arms off and hang them up when you are ready to go to sleep?
You'd just take one and hang it up and then ........ no that wouldn't work ;)

Lendaddy,

Do you notice any problems during the day? I had a degenerative disc condition that was placing a lot of pressure on the nerve root as it exited the foraminal canal and would cause numbness in my arm, hand and fingers. You might need to have a doc, preferably a neurosurgeon check it out. Long term nerve damage will cause nerves and muscles to atrophy. I lost my left tricep muscle and still have some slight numbness in the fingertip of my left index finger.

Good luck to you. Hope it is not serious.

I am not a doctor, nor did I stay in a Holiday Inn last night, but...
I was having a problem with my arms going to sleep on me. I figured it was a normal, just getting old kind of thing. I stopped having the problem when I started working out regularly again.

Just something to think about.

As usual, someone else's physical maladies make me laugh.

my arms fall dead asleep sometimes and sometimes they scare the hell out of me. one time my dead arm landed on my face and i just about pissed myself because i couldn't figure out who was trying to suffocate me.. then i started flailing my arm back and forth trying to wake it up just like ace ventura.lol

In the house I grew up in, there was a built-in couch in a shallow alcove in the den. I would often chill in there, lying on my side watching MLB or NFL, semi-propped up on one elbow.

There was a wall mounted phone on the side wall about 4 feet up.

Once, I didn't know it, but part of my arm was asleep and the phone rang. I sat up, extended my arm up to take the phone off the hook, then when I went to put the phone to my ear, I discovered which part of my arm was asleep.

The result was that I slammed the phone into the side of my head so hard, I dropped the phone. Man, did that hurt.
:eek: :mad:
I had to reach down with the other arm to pick it up.

this has happened to me 3 or 4 times. woke up w/ arm totally dead, flapping around, could amputate it with a swiss-army knife no problem

figured i just slept on it at bad angle