ever slepped on your arm ???

mosehn

mosehn

mosehn

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has anyone here slept on there arm and woke up with a flappy harm with no circulation ,
i had to wait some mins for the circulation to rush back in my arm it felt wierd ,ive done it a few times now , should i worried
 
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Not me, but then again, the amount of time it takes me to notice anything in the morning is a good hour or two :p


I do however keep sitting on my legs on my chair and forgetting. Then I go to move them and have extremely bad pins and needles :p
 
Best time to pull one off. It feels like someone else is doing it for you.







Note: I know this from a best friends friends uncle 2nd removed cousin telling my brother and inturn telling me.
 
mosehn said:
has anyone here slept on there arm and woke up with a flappy harm with no circulation ,
i had to wait some mins for the circulation to rush back in my arm it felt wierd ,ive done it a few times now , should i worried
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I think you weren't actually restricting the circulation. That wouldn't be good - tissue dies quickly without blood. The "dead" feeling is, I think, caused by pressure on nerves.

As far as I know, it does not cause any harm in itself. Harm can be caused indirectly by trying to use the limb in that state, because you can't. So, for example, if it was your leg rather than your arm, you'd fall over if you tried to stand on it.

EDIT: You might consider getting a "memory foam" mattress topper. They're expensive, but they are gloriously comfortable and do a lot to prevent excessive pressure on parts of your body.
 
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Angilion said:
I think you weren't actually restricting the circulation. That wouldn't be good - tissue dies quickly without blood. The "dead" feeling is, I think, caused by pressure on nerves.

As far as I know, it does not cause any harm in itself. Harm can be caused indirectly by trying to use the limb in that state, because you can't. So, for example, if it was your leg rather than your arm, you'd fall over if you tried to stand on it.
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Is it even possible to stand on your own leg? :p
 
look up saturday night palsy. its when people get drunk or stoned and lay on parts of their anatomy (usually arms) for hours damaging them in a very permanent way.




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i do it quite often, but once and only once i woke up with both arms dead and thought i was paralyzed in the arms, it was well scary
 
I do this a lot, in fact there is a thread on here where I got the **** taken out of me as I went to scratch my nose in half-sleep with a dead arm and busted my nose. Blood everywhere..... wooops.
 
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both arms dead , how did you swing them so circulation runs throw them, becuase you have to have them straight out
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Circulation is running just fine. The sensation will return when pressure is removed, unless more damage than usual has been done. As suggested, I looked up "saturday night palsy" as an example - I think the medical term is radial neuropathy, if I remember from the title of the page. If it isn't that (and it usually isn't), you don't need to swing your arms and if it is that, swinging your arms will do nothing (except maybe hurt).

Circulation is driven by your heart. It works at almost any angle. You don't have to swing your arms to get the blood to the ends, do you?

I'm fairly sure cells start dying within a few minutes if circulation really is cut off. If this was about circulation being cut off, people's arms would be rotting off wholesale. Necrosis all over the place.
 
I sleep on my arm most nights & wake up with a dead arm. It feels like it weighs about a ton, very wierd. Never does any actual harm though.
 
It happens to me quite a bit but with my hands, feels like they swell up to the size of balloons and are just full of water. Give it 10 mins then they are alright, just feel tingly for a few hours :D
 
I did it once and I wasn't sure what it was, I was just slapping my arm in mid-air confused at what it was. Then I started to wake up and it began to get feeling :p
 
I have a tendence to do this too. I'm always ultra cautious when moving my arm into a better position in case I inadvertantly have a joint in a position that its not supposed to be in but cant fell it.
 
McDaniel said:
i do it quite often, but once and only once i woke up with both arms dead and thought i was paralyzed in the arms, it was well scary
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I have done that before, very scary at 3am :eek:
It must have looked very strange indeed for a bloke to be trying to move his arms around like a zombie
 
Yeah, i have done this before. It is quite annoying after a while, i literally have to move my dead arm with my other arm. Saying that i haven't done it in a while :)
 
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