B - Does it wake you up repeatedly at night causing you to change positions, or do you just notice it when you happen to wake up?
C - Sex
D - Age
E - What do you sleep on?
My answers:
A - Yes. I’ve noticed it since college when I’m sleeping on my side or my stomach.
B - Sometimes the sensation is enough to wake me up on its own, but most of the time I realize my arm is numb if I’m awoken by something else. I usually roll over, make a fist a few times to resume bloodflow, and fall back to sleep instantly.
C - Female. I’m busty, and I’m beginning to wonder if that has something to do with it.
I woke up a month ago with the entire right side of my right hand (i.e., the ring and pinky fingers) completely numb. I assumed it would go away.
It hasn’t. After trips to the chiropractor, a deep tissue massage, etc., I still have that tingly numbness in both fingers. It goes from the tip of my pinky to my wrist. I was told (by numerous respectable sources) that it’s a pinched nerve in my neck. They tell me if I’d herniated a disc, I’d feel pain somewhere…my neck, my arm, etc…but I don’t.
Nope. I “just” can’t feel half my dominant hand. “Take some ibuprofen, some heat therapy, some ice…it’ll be fine.”
It isn’t fine at all. After a whole month.
But yes, in answer to the OP, my arms fall asleep while I’m asleep. And my chiropractor (for whatever it’s worth) tells me that b/c I’m a stomach sleeper from birth, and I had just bought a new, very fat fluffy pillow, that I may have only myself and that pillow to blame.
I’m a girl and I’m 28.
Yes, I would wake up and change positions.
And I sleep on an ordinary box-spring mattress with an “egg-crate” mattress pad.
I’m trying my best to sleep on my back and side now, with a pillow between my knees, but it’s hard to break a habit of almost three decades.
A - Usually only when I’m on my tummy with an arm under the pillow, but also sometimes when I’m on my side and sleeping on an arm.
B - It happens very rarely, that I’m aware of. Maybe two or three times a month. Sometimes enough to wake me up and wonder why my arm is dead, sometimes it’s something I only notice when I wake up.
A - Do your arms “fall asleep” while you sleep?
Only when I manage to trap one of them.
B - Does it wake you up repeatedly at night causing you to change positions, or do you just notice it when you happen to wake up?
The second.
C - Sex
Not en… oh, mine, female.
D - Age
38
E - What do you sleep on?
A bed. My bed has a spring mattress, the ones at Mom’s and Grandma’s are foam (and this second one leaves me a backache for a week per night spent in it, ouch)
B: It happens whenever I sleep with my arm beneath the pillow. Sometimes it does wake me up, but I think i tend to move before it gets really painful. I notice it more when I’m really tired, meaning I sleep heavily and don’t move very much.
C: Female
D: 29
E: Regular mattress & box spring.
I have poor circulation, (slight heart problem) so that probably has a lot to do with it in my case. (If I cross my legs, they’ll go numb.)
A - Yes, fairly regularly. It never used to happen, but it’s gotten steadily worse over the last 5-6 years.
B - No, it doesn’t wake me up (I don’t think), but it can keep me from getting to sleep.
C - Male
D - 56
E - No-turning mattress, without all the fluffy crap on top, whatever that’s called.
A couple of notes:
We tried a Tempur-Pedic once, and damn near everything fell asleep. Both arms, both legs, and all down my right side. It was horrible.
My wife says her breasts resting on her arm causes her arm to fall asleep. She’s not particularly endowed, but I clinically inspected the situation and found it plausible. I assume this is a recent development, since she didn’t mention it the first 22 years of our marriage.
I remember the first time this ever happened to me when I was about 26. It had fallen asleep from my shoulder down. I woke up freaking the hell out because I couldn’t move my arm for a good 20 seconds or so. Which at the time seemed like an eternity.
Anyway:
A= Very rarely
B=As far as I can remember I only notice when I happen to wake up.
C= male