Hi all
I know we have loads of posts about numb arms and legs and tingling arms etc but I am trying to find someone that can relate to this.
Every night in bed I am awoken cos my left hand is numb and I sleep on my right hand side so how does that happen? It goes on and off all night! It freaks me sometimes cos I can't get the sensation back for a few minutes.
I can also lay on my back and my left hand goes numb and sometimes my right one too.
It is really starting to annoy me now.
I don't sleep on the hand that goes numb and I wake up and am quite aware that I am not sleeping/laying on it so what causes it?
I am not anxious atall - this has been going on for over 6 months now but like most of us I don't go to docs cos he will just insisit I am sleeping on it and I know I am not.
I asked the BUPA doc a few weeks ago and he said it wasn't a trapped nerve cos I would have it all day and suggested I see doc. Easier said than done - that will be another 3 week wait then!
Anyone know what causes it and how to stop it? I have replaced my pillows to orthopedic (spelling) ones and we have a serious new state of the art mattress and bed.
It is only at night and not in the day but is waking me up.
Do I have a trapped nerve that only shows when laid down? Am I going mad? It is not anxiety cos I hardly suffer that now and this is constant.
Any ideas? Just to-reiterate I sleep on my right and this is my left arm but can be my right one too but very rarely.
Any ideas or experience of this? What was the outcome?
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People will forget what you did
But people will never forget how you made them feel
Nicola