Does anybody else suffer with numb arms and pins and needles when they are in bed and lie on the side to sleep please let me know as this is really worrying me now and is very annoying
Yes me everynight even goes right into my hands & that bad that I cant even pick my glasses up from the bedside table, and the funny thing is its always the side Iām not sleeping on. So if I lay on my right its the left that goes all numb with pins & needles and visa versa Sue
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Could you be trapping an inflamed/damaged nerve somehow?
I also have this on a regular basis, but as Bambi19 says, it is not on the side that I am sleeping so I find it difficult to believe that it could be related to a trapped nerve etc.
Sue
I have this too, found it gets worse if i put my arms above my heart (if that makes sense?).
I posted a question like this a while back and someone suggested sleeping with your arms tucked in your knees. I tried it and it does make a difference - donāt always remember though!
HTH
Leora
Hands tucked in-between your knees i should have said. Arms in knees could be a bit tricky!
everynight.
its makes me wake up 4 or 5 times a night to change position. i dont know the cause but i had it in my mind it was bad cerculation.
cannot remember the last time i had a full nights sleep through it.
atb MTT
Yes, most nightsā¦sometimes itās one arm and other times itās both In fact, a few weeks ago, I woke up with a numb arm and was trying to āfindā itā¦I picked up an arm, but obviously didnāt feel like it belonged to me, so I let go and ended up hitting my husband in the face, he wasnāt too pleased, as you can imagine Sorry I canāt be of any help, Fizzy x
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Yes I have this every night, At first i thought i must be sleeping in the wrong position and maybe blocking the blood supply to my arm so I sleep on the other side now but I still get it. Can take quite a while to get the feeling back when i wake up. Donāt know if itās an MS thing or not as iām not DX.
I get numbness and pins and needles in the arm Iām not lying on at night. I sleep on my side with that arm (the top arm) bent with my hand near my chin. Itās the nerve in my elbow thatās the problem area!
I also get this - most nights anyway. Lying on my side - get it. Lying on my tummy with hands pulled into chest - get it. Lying on my back - get it. Lying on tummy with hands under pillow - get it. Iām beginning to think i could fall asleep in a headstand postion and get numb arms. But it doesnāt wake me up - I just notice when the alarm goes off.
JBK x
Hi, Same here, although not every night. From my scan I have degeneration/bulging discs at c5 & c6, so I am guessing thatās whatās causing mine if it pinches the nerve. I did tell ms nurse and neurologist but they told me they did not relate this to ms, it was wear and tear and basically getting old! Helen
have this almost everynight for a year. sometimes a finger is stuck in an odd position and hands totally numb. takes a few minutes for numbness to go and ability to straighten finger
why do so many of us have this, slept in the same position all my life and never had it before
I get this too. Thinking back, it was happening to my hands a little while before my very first symptoms but I blamed it on laying in an odd position as I had never had it before. Now it happens night after night. My left arm is the worst but it happens to the right one sometimes as well, I have to give it 5 minutes for the feeling to come back before I attempt to get out of bed. It is worse if I have had the arm bent so I try to fall asleep with straightened arms but I have always slept on my side with one arm and one leg curled up so I think I roll into that position once Iām in a deep sleep.
What with this, the leg stretches and the morning meds to fit into my routine, itās a wonder I ever make it to work on time!
Tracey x
me too most nights some times its so bad i cant pick anything up for a good few mins after i get up lol turning on the shower is always fun lol
Have this too also get woken up by my arms becoming completely locked and it takes ages for me to be able to move them. Also happens with my legs. Gabapentin has helped with the crawling pins and needles in my legs so they donāt wake me up but arms are still a problem. Just another joy of MS
I get this too - with so many of us affected, and the timescale corresponding to the onset of other āMS stuffā, I find it really hard to accept itās unrelated. Occasionally, on waking, Iāve found my whole arm has gone numb, and is thrashing about, uselessly, like a lump of dead meat. Iāve knocked everything off the bedside table! I donāt think this is a normal part of being 40-something. My mum will be 73 next week, and although she never stops moaning about her health (she doesnāt have MS), sheās never reported this one! Iām sure, if all older folk got it, Iād have heard about it by now. I donāt think itās a circulatory thing, but a nerve thing. My fingers look pink and healthy enough. Although I donāt understand why it only strikes at night, and tends to be the side youāre lying on, which does suggest circulation. I just donāt think it is, though. Maybe our dodgy wiring means that when thereās a lack of sensory input (as when asleep), our brains āswitch offā that circuit for a while, to save energy. So far, I usually find it wears off quickly once Iām awake and moving. But Iām quite a liability for that first few moments each morning. My feet arenāt very safe when I first stand, either. Tina x
I have had this for a few years but only if I sleep with my arms bent (it s ulna nerve entrapment if this happens and it s mainly your little finger that goes numb). However since my āepisodeā my right arm (which is not the side affected) is much worse than usual and I frequently wake up with my whole arm and hand numb and feeling exactly like my left hand which scares me. If I shake it around a bit the circulation eventually comes back though.
Hi everyone, thanks for your stories about arm numbness. I went to my doctor with similar symptoms - left arm would go numb, even when Iām sleeping on my back - and he said it could be early signs of MS. Curious if arm numbness was an early symptom for you guys, and what were other symptoms, either ones at the same time or further along. Thanks a bunch, Laura