Pins and Needles :p

[Pitbull]

Hi Guys,

Just curious as it's been bothering me a few months now.

I stopped going to the gym and the last few months when I sleep I get pins and needles in my hands. To such an extent that few of my fingers go completely numb/dead and it wakes me up. Mostly when I sleep on my back.

Could it just be a pinched nerve or maybe something like bloody not reaching my hands or something?

Pretty damn annoying but maybe some other underlying issue?

 

[ToxicBunny]

It is Pins and Needles if you please

 

[Sinbad]

Sounds like a pinched nerve to me.

 

[Pitbull]

It is Pins and Needles if you please

Fixed

 

[psion]

Hmm happens to me too, holding something like a pillow usually avoids this, but I think I bend my hands cutting off circulation.

 

[TJ99]

High blood pressure?

 

[Pitbull]

High blood pressure?

Never had blood pressure issues. I have a device at home should prob check it.

As a side note, should I check it maybe when I wake up with the "dead" hands? If it's a nerve, how the hell do I sort it out?

 

[Joka69]

Oddly enough, this used to happen to me before i started gyming and now that i think about it, since i started gyming it hasn't happened for some time now.

But for me, no matter how i slept, be it on my back, or on my stomach it used to happen to me, and when it did happen, i'd just wake up, and let my arm hang off the side of the bed to let the blood rush back to my hand and go back to sleep again, never really though much of it?

 

[TJ99]

Never had blood pressure issues. I have a device at home should prob check it.

As a side note, should I check it maybe when I wake up with the "dead" hands? If it's a nerve, how the hell do I sort it out?

Yeah it's not the only cause by any means but still a possibility you should maybe check out. Especially if you have a machine at home.

 

[jboyx989]

I've been having the same problem for a few weeks now, but its not when I sleep, its when I drive!

 

[Bosvark@]

Check blood circulation.

 

[Venomous]

carpul tunnel? (spelling probably wrong)

 

[jacodebeer]

My hands also go numb when I lay on my back on the and play games on my phone, I have concluded that I put pressure on my Ulnar Nerves (commonly know as the skokbeentjie) and this give pins and needles.

 

[Freshy-ZN]

I suspect my ulnar nerves or something else in my elbows is also the cause of my pins and needles. I get it when I lie on my back and my elbows are on the bed too. Also when Im sitting on an office type chair with hard plastic arm rests it happens.

 

[atomcrusher]

carpul tunnel? (spelling probably wrong)

C-A-R-P-A-L :twisted:

A possible cause of the OPs problem

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/carpal-tunnel-syndrome/basics/definition/con-20030332

However I would not swear by Dr. Google's diagnosis ... go see a doctor

Otherwise it may just be a mild case of W***er's Wrist?

 

[chrisc]

My surgeon friend told me that you only have to apply gentle pressure on the nerve sheath for symptoms like you describe from occurring. He said it was possibly the result of an old injury

He had a patient who fell off a chair and hit his chin on the floor. His jaw was fractured and appeared to heal well. About 5 years later, when shaving, he had a tingling sensation in his lower jaw which gradually got worse. He opened up the chin area and removed some scar tissue and within a few weeks the problem disappeared

 

[Pitbull]

My surgeon friend told me that you only have to apply gentle pressure on the nerve sheath for symptoms like you describe from occurring. He said it was possibly the result of an old injury

He had a patient who fell off a chair and hit his chin on the floor. His jaw was fractured and appeared to heal well. About 5 years later, when shaving, he had a tingling sensation in his lower jaw which gradually got worse. He opened up the chin area and removed some scar tissue and within a few weeks the problem disappeared

Could very well be an old injury. It has actually crossed my mind. I have injured my back a few times during my years in the gym. Just weird it started out of the blue and now that i don't gym no more. O well, will prob need to go see someone if it gets any worse. Who do I go see thought? Spine specialist?

 

[bokdrol]

Perhaps it is the way you sleep? Do you have a new mattress or are you getting cold at nights? It happens when I get cold: I sort of hug myself and then sleep awkwardly on my hands. It is awful to wake up with dead hands flailing around, though. I once slapped myself through the face and fell out of bed.

 

[Rocket-Boy]

I suspect my ulnar nerves or something else in my elbows is also the cause of my pins and needles. I get it when I lie on my back and my elbows are on the bed too. Also when Im sitting on an office type chair with hard plastic arm rests it happens.

Yeah but you are a bit of a girl so its excusable

 

[Pitbull]

Perhaps it is the way you sleep? Do you have a new mattress or are you getting cold at nights? It happens when I get cold: I sort of hug myself and then sleep awkwardly on my hands. It is awful to wake up with dead hands flailing around, though. I once slapped myself through the face and fell out of bed.

Nope, def not the bed or the weather. It has been happening on and off in the same bed in summer too.