Hand/arm falling asleep

Hi everyone!

Hope everyone had a great weekend! I wanted to see if anyone could relate to this symptom - does anyone else have an issue with waking up in the night to their hand or arm asleep? It's so weird and it's been happening a lot lately.:( Sometimes it will be just the side of my hand and pinky. Othertimes my whole hand will fall asleep. It always goes back to normal but so freaky! My nerves are so messed up now.:( I also notice that if I put pressure on a limb (like leaning on something for a minute or two) my arm/leg will start tingling or falling asleep. My nerves are so sensitive since I developed fibro.

Other possibility is that my magnesium is still low. I need to get back in and get my levels tested again...

My mother has this problem. She found out it was due to low B 12 vitamin. She has to get a monthly shot to prevent it from happening. It's a type of anemia.

Thank you, everyone! I'll mention it at my next Dr.'s apt.:)

Anytime I wake up from sleeping on my back this happens to me, just like you described, sometimes my whole hand, sometimes just half. It also happens when I'm on the phone and holding it to my ear for more than 5 minutes.

One of my most relaxing pastimes is reading while enjoying a snack, (little stuff that lasts a long time like grapes or pretzels) and my "snack" hand falls asleep every time.

I just contributed it to fibro as numbness and tingling are symptoms, I've never had it checked to see if anything else could be causing it.

I've been reading a lot about it the last few days and the falling asleep symptom is actually - paresthesias which is a very common Fibro symptom.

This symptom was actually what started me down the trail of diagnosis. I started waking up with BOTH hands having that pins/needles feeling. My best friend's mom died years ago from MS and this is a symptom of MS so she really urged me to see my neuro and I did. I don't have MS and they still haven't really explained why this happens, but it did lead to a Fibro dx. I still have this problem and I notice that it's worse if I've been drinking the night before.

Just to add to the list of options .... I had been having this issue since September. I had talked to every doctor about it and been through a bunch of "possibilities" with no one wanting to help me dig into it. I began to get desparate as it happened occasionally during the day and often meant that I woke up and couldn't use my hands (since I lurch a bit when I get up, I prefer to have my hands, lol).

So .... I do a lot of computer work. I have been working on myofascial pain release and while it was mitigating a bit, it wasn't fixing it. I tried cream, lidocaine patches, massage, x-ray on the shoulder .... nothing seemed to fix. Plus it was to the point where the scalene muscles in my neck/shoulder area were screaming.

I talked to my massage therapist and something I told her about my pain triggered an idea that it could be related to Thoracic Outlet syndrome (she has another patient for whom that is an issue). There was a muscle near my side under my right breast that was totally frozen. It was not a pleasant few minutes while she worked that free. I still have some issues in that area, but am not waking up with the hand numb and frozen (it has been starting to freeze into a c-shape like a Lego person). I am able to do the exercises for the area that I found online and treating it with heat regularly is helping. My M.T. told me she doesn't work that area normally because it's not something everyone is comfortable with. I am so glad she did.

This may not be the thing, but one more option to consider .....