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Dead Arms

  • 21-07-2009 2:17pm
    #1
    jumpguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭


    Does this ever happen to anyone when they wake up? It happens to me about every two nights. I sleep with my arms either under my body, my head or my pillow. I wake up, and I have absolutely 0 feeling in my arm, or both arms. It's actually pretty scary (would be if it wasn't such a frequent occurence now), it feels like they're amputated, and you either have to drag them out with your hand or if both are gone your shoulders. It's almost surreal. Does this happen to anyone else? Anyone know the cause of it? Is it a cut off of blood flow or a cut off of nerves to the arm?


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  • #2
    petes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    Not from sleeping but remember in secondary school it was all the rage.


  • #3
    Blazer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,473 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    jumpguy wrote: »
    Does this ever happen to anyone when they wake up? It happens to me about every two nights. I sleep with my arms either under my body, my head or my pillow. I wake up, and I have absolutely 0 feeling in my arm, or both arms. It's actually pretty scary (would be if it wasn't such a frequent occurence now), it feels like they're amputated, and you either have to drag them out with your hand or if both are gone your shoulders. It's almost surreal. Does this happen to anyone else? Anyone know the cause of it? Is it a cut off of blood flow or a cut off of nerves to the arm?

    just lack of circulation to the limbs..i get it the odd time as well if i sleep with hand under my head.


  • #4
    **Timbuk2**
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,396 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    Insurgent wrote: »
    Not from sleeping but remember in secondary school it was all the rage.

    You're from Dundalk too! What secondary school did you go to?


  • #5
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    It's a sign of a weak heart. It happens when the left ventricle or aorta isn't properly developed which means its unable to pump blood properly around the body. The reason it's so apparent when you're sleeping is because it has to work harder in that position.

    Nah just kidding. Happens me alot, for the same reason - I sleep with arms under the pillow. Don't worry about it. :D


  • #6
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    jumpguy wrote: »
    Does this ever happen to anyone when they wake up? It happens to me about every two nights. I sleep with my arms either under my body, my head or my pillow. I wake up, and I have absolutely 0 feeling in my arm, or both arms. It's actually pretty scary (would be if it wasn't such a frequent occurence now), it feels like they're amputated, and you either have to drag them out with your hand or if both are gone your shoulders. It's almost surreal. Does this happen to anyone else? Anyone know the cause of it? Is it a cut off of blood flow or a cut off of nerves to the arm?


    More than likely a wasting disease of some sort.


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  • #7
    Raze_them_all
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,477 ✭✭✭✭Raze_them_all


    jumpguy wrote: »
    Does this ever happen to anyone when they wake up? It happens to me about every two nights. I sleep with my arms either under my body, my head or my pillow. I wake up, and I have absolutely 0 feeling in my arm, or both arms. It's actually pretty scary (would be if it wasn't such a frequent occurence now), it feels like they're amputated, and you either have to drag them out with your hand or if both are gone your shoulders. It's almost surreal. Does this happen to anyone else? Anyone know the cause of it? Is it a cut off of blood flow or a cut off of nerves to the arm?
    Is this not called the stranger :pac:


  • #8
    petes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    **Timbuk2** wrote: »
    You're from Dundalk too! What secondary school did you go to?


    I actually went to secondary school in Ardee.


  • #9
    Gone Drinking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,811 ✭✭✭Gone Drinking


    Ah the Christy Brown as my girlfriend calls it. Happens to me all the time. I wake up mumbling, drooling and shaking my dead arm around trying to get the circulation going.


  • #10
    Smart Bug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,368 ✭✭✭Smart Bug


    Now that I'm approaching 30 I get dead peen every morning :(...


    :D


  • #11
    Pop's Diner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭Pop's Diner


    Smart Bug wrote: »
    Now that I'm approaching 30 I get dead peen every morning :(...


    :D

    That's weird. I looked up 'dead peen' on google just now ... and your post at 15:31 was the top match!

    I had no idea it operated that quickly! :eek:


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  • #12
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Make an appointment to visit your Doctor just in case.


  • #13
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    Raze_them_all wrote: »
    Is this not called the stranger :pac:
    I like to lie on my penis sometimes until it goes numb. Then it feels like I'm **** off someone else.


  • #14
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,231 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    TheZohan wrote: »
    Make an appointment to visit your Doctor just in case.

    He can use his nose to press the phone buttons.


  • #15
    Leixlip_Red
    Closed Accounts Posts: 210 ✭✭Leixlip_Red


    Pop's Diner wrote: »
    That's weird. I looked up 'dead peen' on google just now ... and your post at 15:31 was the top match!

    I had no idea it operated that quickly! :eek:

    That's crazy... wonder how many boards.ie top matches there are.


  • #16
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Weird you posted this today OP, I got a dead arm in my sleep for the first time ever last night! Woke up and went to press Snooze and I couldn't move my right arm :( Had to give it a few belts with the left one!


  • #17
    Maddison
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭Maddison


    Yeah must be terrible If you wake up with a morning glory & you cant do anything about it:D


  • #18
    Pop's Diner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭Pop's Diner


    Maddison wrote: »
    Yeah must be terrible If you wake up with a morning glory & you cant do anything about it:D

    I usually just blow myself in this situation.


  • #19
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    Maddison wrote: »
    Yeah must be terrible If you wake up with a morning glory & you cant do anything about it:D

    Aparently not, if only one arm is dead....it's called the stranger


  • #20
    jumpguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    Weird you posted this today OP, I got a dead arm in my sleep for the first time ever last night! Woke up and went to press Snooze and I couldn't move my right arm :( Had to give it a few belts with the left one!
    Yeah it's fair annoying. Today the phone was ringing and my left arm was completely gone and my right arm was fairly numb. I couldn't find my left arm for a second in the mass of pillows, found it, pulled it out with my right arm, and ran to the phone, before having to devise a plan to pick it up. I ended up missing the call.
    Pop's Diner wrote: »
    I usually just blow myself in this situation.
    That sort of flexibility must be admired.


  • #21
    Maddison
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭Maddison


    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    Aparently not, if only one arm is dead....it's called the stranger

    Yeah but If its dead you cant lift it or grasp with it so Its like the stranger that didnt want to know. Must remember the dead arm excuse......


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  • #22
    Maddison
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭Maddison


    Pop's Diner wrote: »
    I usually just blow myself in this situation.

    Wow.....how so sir.....?:D


  • #23
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Maddison wrote: »
    Wow.....how so sir.....?:D
    Cardboard poster pipe. Its a very disconnected sensation


  • #24
    jigglywoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 359 ✭✭jigglywoo


    Sometimes when I sleep on my back I have my arms up under my head or on the pillow. I wake up and try to move but my arm is limp and it ends up hitting my face. Then I have to wait for the pins and needles to go away which is really annoying when you're trying to sleep.


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