# help me with a sleeping problem **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 10, 2004, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-sleeping-problem/239299 "2004-04-10T07:28:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-sleeping-problem/239299/1 "2004-04-10T07:28:36Z")
For the last six months at least I have had a bizarre sleeping problem. When I go to sleep I usually do not feel comfortable unless my arms are at my sides or actually under my body, and when I wake up they are usually “asleep”(as in like that tingly feeling when your foot falls asleep), sometimes I can barely feel them and they usually hurt when I get the feeling back. It is almost impossible for me to get to sleep without lying down on my stomach and having my hands at my side. But many times If I do fall asleep in a different position, sure enough when I awake I have at some point during the night turned over on my hands and they are 'asleep" when I wake up Any others had this experience? Advice? ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-sleeping-problem/239299/2 "2004-04-10T19:33:42Z")
Must keep thread alive ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-sleeping-problem/239299/3 "2004-04-10T20:17:06Z")
Your limbs are “falling asleep” because you’re partially cutting off blood circulation to them, as for your sleep problems, check out [this](http://health.howstuffworks.com/sleep.htm)site. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-sleeping-problem/239299/4 "2004-04-11T01:23:46Z")
I know why they are falling “asleep” I need a way to stop it that site doesn’t really help I already know what sleep is. ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-sleeping-problem/239299/5 "2004-04-11T01:38:04Z")
**Pool** , you’re not alone. My girlfriend has the same problem, she tends to sleep with her arms beneath her pillow and sure enough her arms end up falling asleep. Coupled with her so called ‘restless leg syndrome’ she’s one crazy german kook. She says that it might our mattress. Perhaps buy something you can adjust, or invest ina better matress? Also, you can try a sleep clinic. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-sleeping-problem/239299/6 "2004-04-12T14:44:09Z")
here’s something crude to try out while waiting for the real advice to come in. wear a cumbersome bracelet or something, such that it will not be comfortable to have them under your body while you sleep, so maybe you’ll move them away instinctively. * * * bump card - go directly to top of page, do not pass the stickies, do not feed the hamsters.