Seeking Help with Dead Limb Syndrome

[AussieSurvivor]

Hi hopefully someone ( of 'experience') will be able to answer my question. Apart from all the twitching going on,I quite easily get 'dead limb sydrome'. When your arms or other limbs go to sleep and you get no feeling in them-after pressure is put on them. Post 'pins and needles' I guess. I find I only have to put light pressure on an arm or hand for a short time for it to go to 'sleep'. Particuarly when I go to bed. I find just lying on a hand or arm for a five ( or less) minutes makes it start to get that pins and needles affect before total numbness. It is very difficult to find a way to sleep with out doing this, and waking up with the horrible feeling of no feeling in the arm, or hand (feeling comes back of course-slowly). Regular occurance for me-hate it. Is this normal or another symptom of BFS?DownUnder

 

[Smiley20]

i experienced the same short time after twitching started. woke up several times at night with dead arms and/or hands.... for me it was anxiety related ( had it before when i went through big ms scare 15 years ago) and disappeared over time. after more than 5 months into bfs it happens maybe once a week that i wake up and my left arm is numb.... i remember from reading through old posts that it is not uncommon with bfs (or with accompanying anxiety).

 

[BetteDavisGretchen]

This happens to me in my arms at night....and especially in my legs if I choose to sit on them like I am doing right now )

 

[simonw00]

I only used to get 'dead limb syndrome' very infrequently before I developed BFS. Now I get it every night and get it quite a lot more severely than I ever used to. I assume this is part of the BFS thing.RegardsSimon

 

[suegirl]

Me, too. It happens all of the time--sometimes so bad that I have to use my other arm to pick up my dead arm to shake it.

 

[AussieSurvivor]

Thanks for this guys. Replies appreciated, in the fact that I know I am 'not alone' (as a newby) with these BFS 'experiences'. Sounds like another BFS BS symptom we have to all deal with! I hate that dead arm thing where your arm/hand is like a 'slab of meat' and the inabilty to move it at all. I can sympathise with that for sure!Merry xmas and like me ( hopefully) try and focus on the festivities and not the BFS frustrations ( anxieties!).

 

[TechSavvyMama]

Sometimes I get one in my right leg especially if my feet are cold. I feel like I'm almost dragging my foot. It comes and goes.Patricia