Another silly question

[jumpinjiminy]

Do you remember as a kid when you would sit the wrong way for too long and your foot fell asleep? Has the recovery from that changed at all over the years?

I've noticed over the last five or so years, mine now goes dead numb, and I no longer get those painful tinglies when it wakes up again. I have to be very careful walking when it's asleep until it comes back, because I can't feel a thing until it does. But it does no longer tingle or prickle when waking up again.

Has anyone else noticed a change in this process with age?

[isamadjul]

not with age

I noticed it with the progression of my MS. I still get the prickles every now and again but if my foot or leg goes to sleep all the way....oh man, crap, dang it,....cuz in many many minutes it will come back.

What I've noticed is that it takes loads longer for the feeling to come back. So I don't walk on it till its back. I have enough troubles walking I'm not adding dead foot to the mix!!! LOL

isamadjul
(allyson)

[Camsue]

now that you mentioned it..you're right! I don't get those 'stabbing' tingles when it's waking up, it's just very, very numb and I have to be careful walking on it...

now is that MS or aging? geeze, who knows?

[lemstar]

Huge for me!

Yes, my feet and legs, and arms and hands will "fall asleep" much more frequently, and more severely. Absolutely! Only twice I have made the mistake of thinking that a leg that had fallen asleep would hold me up. Guess what? It doesn't. My legs and feet fall asleep daily, often. Usually, they "wake up" quickly, and often with the tingles and pins and needles feeling. (When my son was little, he would say, "I have bees". So I still think about how I have bees).

[jumpinjiminy]

It happened with my arm recently when I woke up in the morning. The entire thing was dead, as in, I could only move it a little bit, and very awkwardly at that. It was several minutes before it woke up and moved normally, and there were no pins and needles during the process either.

I didn't think much of it, except that it seemed odd. But then I remembered the foot thing has been changing too, and realized no prickles with that either.

I took a chance and asked the neuro's NP about it at my last visit. She looked at me like I'd lost my mind, but said since the feeling does come back not to worry. I wasn't worried, per se, more curious. Now another health professional thinks I'm a fruitcake.

Maybe it's safer to ask here. LOL This is such a minor thing, but odd, and I got curious enough to ask. I highly doubt this is something patients report to their docs.

[ShakespeareMama]

"I have bees."

That is the cutest thing, EVER!!!

[Hawkgirl]

I have those pins and needles in my hands and feet all the time. Not numbness though.