How to Stop Your Arm Going to Sleep at Night *Dead Arm* (Hint: It's Not Your Circulation)
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- Опубликовано: 21 июл 2024
- If your arm goes to sleep at night (dead arm) we put often put it down to a lack of circulation. Interestingly, it's actually due to something else entirely - something you can control and stop from happening in the future!
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The first time my arm fell asleep like that, I screamed so loud. I thought something had happened to my arm that was irreversible. It felt like I was holding someone else's hand.
I have a bad habit of sleeping on my arm every time when I wake up feel like I broke arm but I have a ☠️ arm
Dude it happened to me and it feels exactly like you’re holding someone else’s hand and I had to lift my arm up and wiggle it around with my other arm
Last time was my first time I told my grandma I was ready to amputate it
Last night
That was weird af. I slept with my arm above my head on accident and I woke up and just tried to move my arm like normal and it just wouldn’t move. Then I grabbed it and it just flopped over and I had no control over it.
It's a weird experience isn't it mate!
Same
Did you solve it
Literally just happened to me I felt a vibration but it wasn't connected to my arm shit was weird asf
just happened to me and i was terrified and then it just started working again. still had to update 😂
I have experienced the "dead arm" sensation along with some tightness in my neck, arm and, wrist. I am going to try this technique out.
Sincerely hope it helps! Please feel free to let me know how it goes!
How much pressure are you placing on the ball? My arms automatically go above my head when I sleep and I always wake up and think my arms have fallen off. Going to try this!
Wow. It's just a symptom and indication that your body needs tending to. I just thought those were not a good sleeping positions which were important to me to be in. Thank you for sharing this. I wish I knew about this years ago.
Every human should be brought up knowing the information you are sharing on your channel about understanding one's body, it's indicators, and how to tend to it.
Hope it helps!
Thanks! This has been bothering me for a couple weeks now and it never occurred to me that it's something chronic.
Hope the video helps you get to the bottom of things!
I have sereval times at night dead arm feeling in both whole arms and hands sleeling on my back, I cannot sleep on my side any more used to before and shoulder impingment i had month ago, now i have this issue every night several times. It is so taxing
So what are the more sinister things it could be ? I get numbness anywhere in my body at night so I don’t think it’s due to one particular area.
Interesting, thanks! I have started again to sleep on harder platform (on a mattress on a floor) and I have got this dead arm more often than normally. When I use same mattress on a softer bed, I get maybe twice or thrice a year this dead arm, but on floor sleeping I have got this maybe twice or thrice already within couple of months.
I have thought that it must be something related to muscles stifness since when I sleep on a floor I feel still somehow "better", more refreshed and muscles feel less tight. I still have neck and upper body stifness (since I work on computers all days), but sleeping on floor seems to do some kind of massaging maybe to my body, dunno about it, but at least it seems to make me feel better or it seem so, but now I more often have got this dead arm.
Maybe when muscles are less stiff in future hopefully I do not get this dead arm either :)
Good luck mate! Hope the video helps!
Tysm u helped me alot for my dead arm
Great to hear!
sometimes when I wake up specifically my entire right arm up to the shoulder cant feel anything, not even the static feel. I cant physically move it and can pinch it without feeling anything. Its literally just a dead weight strapped to the side of my torso for 1-3 minutes
Hope the video helps in some way Noah!
I wake up most mornings with one dead arm. It can be the right or left. I can never get the light quick enough to see if my arm is white. It comes back after a few seconds but when i try to move my arm it swings with force into different positions rather than moving smoothly throughout all positions. This has been worrying me a bit as i have health anxiety and am always worried I have a brain tumor.
It gets that hot tingling feeling when it comes back as if blood were returning. I’ll have to try the massage ball but if you’ve got any further thoughts?
My left arms hurt really bad in the middle it like I need to pop in back in or it my muscle I just woke up this way and idk what to do about it it been about a month I think so any advice would be great thanks so much
My arms have been going numb when I fall asleep on my back and place the. on my chest. Not sure if it's circulatory or nerve related. Will try that trick to turn on the light. Might be nerve related, going to try this ball idea, Thanks.
Hope it all helps Jesse!
First time I got a seas arm I tried to rub my face and being half asleep I didn't notice how hard I was trying just to lift my arm up and then I slapped myself flat hand on my face.
That woke me straight up.
Hi, thanks for the video. I often wake up with a dead left arm / numbness and tingling in my fingers. I just tried using the massage ball method as you prescribed. Hope I can sleep uninterrupted tonight. Thanks
Hey Ivy! Hope it helps! Did you find some areas that were stiff, tight, or tender?
This happens to me all night every night it’s awful ☹️
Sorry to hear that Neelia! Hope the video goes some way to helping!
@@YourWellnessNerd thank you so much & thank you for making this video 💕
Same for me. Found any remedy?
Pins and needles at night are caused by not breathing freely while in deep sleep.
Lay in a supported position that does not constrict airways.
Respectfully Rosie, there is more going on behind the scenes than just abnormal breathing. The body should be functioning well enough so that when breathing can’t be optimal other musculoskeletal issues don’t pop up.
As for me I found Buteyko breathing extremely helpful for getting rid of brainfog. That’s basically exhaling very slowly. But then - my arms and hands are getting numb at the same time. Which seems to occur more and more. And by now even sometimes without exhaling very slowly.
Been happening to me the last couple of weeks and it freaks me out!
Hope the video helps in some way!
Woke up with both arms mainlu forearm,wrist and hands numb i slept in a fetal position could be just that?
my arm and shoulder gets weak. i always hug my pillow and when i got to raise my hand in the morning, it feels weak and I can't raise heavy object. how can I solve it?
How you feeling now... Am having same problem
i didn't solve it up until now
@@lawrencetuquero5863 am facing this from 2 weeks am quite worried this makes me tired after waking up
Thank you! For me, it tends to happen when I sleep on my side. I’ve been trying to get myself to sleep on my back but it’s definitely not easy to break a sleeping pattern Ive had all my life. What are your thoughts on sleeping posture? Do you have a video on this? Do you think if I do this exercise I can still sleep on my side curled up in a ball or that for long term relief it’s better to keep trying to get myself to sleep on my back?
Hey Shelley! Not sure if youve seen it already but there is one about how to find your best sleeping posture :). I cant be too specific over the internet but often I find the night time issues are more often a consequence of the day time stuff like postures and shapes. Its pretty hard to expect someone to change their sleeping habits when theyre asleep as we all move and roll so much throughout the night!
@@YourWellnessNerd okay thank you! I’ll look for that video
@ShelleyhitzTV hey Shelly. I have this dead arm thing more and more often. My arm and hand feels like a rubber glove filled with water and I have no feeling or control with it. Did you find any solutions to this?
Thank you for this. But I lay straight on my back with my arms down next to me. I still get numb hands.. What causes this? Is it from the neck?
Will try those excercise 🙏
Its best to see someone who can specifically assess you and provide you with the best advice. It can be neck related but its not great to speculate over the internet unfortunately.
Hope they help!
How can we begin to prevent the stiffness and tightness in the neck in the first place?
Everyone is potentially a little different, but from a general perspective most accrue those restrictions from less active, more sedentary things we do, and how we do them. Looking down a lot for work, reading, watching tv in a recliner, using a phone etc
@@YourWellnessNerd thanks.. that checks out
Did any of you try sleeping on a hard floor or a bed without mattress. I'm doing that and I think I relaxed my back, but my upper traps and neck aren't relaxed when using a pillow so I also now think about removing my pillow, but I'm not sure.
@@MrX-vk1jlWell, I have again started to sleep on a floor with some kind of mattress. I have noted that I got much more often dead arm now, but still I feel better. I have very stiff mucles on upper body and neck anyway, because I work on computers but I hope that when I sleep more on floor on a mattress this will help my body to soften my muscles :)
I was damn scared for the first time
It can be really disconcerting for sure!
I cured my numb arms, in 2 days. Been sleeping for 78 years any damn well I 0lews
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If you get it almost every night...is it more likely to be circulation...? I kno you can’t diagnose something over the internet...just curious what your experience has been. Thanks for your content! Always useful and helpful (:
Hey! You're right, its impossible to tell over the net. However I would always assess the neck, sesrch for those stiff joints, and get my patients to at least try the neck exercise and see what happens. Id genuinely expect most to be neck related - and postural related for that matter, but you have to keep an open mind.
@@YourWellnessNerd awesome, thank you! I’ll give these tips a shot soon (as in like probably tonight bc it happens most nights 🤦🏽♀️). Thx again!
Mine happens every night too and here lately even during day. I feel miserable.
Are you still getting this?
Both my arms go numb when I sleep on my back. Can you please help me I’m scared and I have a tightness on my left side of my neck
If its scaring you, its best to go and have someone assess your neck so they can tell you exactly why its happening. For a lot of people it can be a consequence of that very neck dysfunction you referenced and nothing to be concerned about, however the only way to reassure you is to have it specifically assessed. That way they can tell you whats going on!
Hey did you find solution ?
This happens to me and I hate this shit
Hope the video helps!
….you should look into the camera lens and not the flip out screen where you can see yourself…. Just FYI
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Why?