How come when you sleep on your arm or leg wrong, you get a pins and needles sensation and swelling?!
Question: How come when you sleep on your arm or leg wrong, you get a pins and needles sensation and swelling.?
this happens to me a lot, just wondering whyHealth Question & Answer
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You are pinching sensory (afferent) nerve fibers that are heading towards the neuron, that is why you have the neuropathy (numbness and tingling) symptoms.. Motor (efferent) pathways head away from the neuron
I don't think this jargon seems patronizing, but I'll try again and I don't want to come off as condescending, so here goes..
Sometimes when you sit or lay on a limb (arm or leg), you get a pins and needles sensation (feeling).. There are nerves all over the body.. The pins and needles feeling is from putting pressure on the sensory (what you feel) nerve fibers.. Sometimes you can also pinch off motor (movement) fibers too.. This happens when you are sitting and try to get up you have the pins and needles sensation but are not able to weight bare for a few seconds..
This may help also, when you touch something hot, the sensory fibers relay this quickly to the brain.. Then the brain sends a message to the motor fibers to move..Health Question & Answer
I don't think this jargon seems patronizing, but I'll try again and I don't want to come off as condescending, so here goes..
Sometimes when you sit or lay on a limb (arm or leg), you get a pins and needles sensation (feeling).. There are nerves all over the body.. The pins and needles feeling is from putting pressure on the sensory (what you feel) nerve fibers.. Sometimes you can also pinch off motor (movement) fibers too.. This happens when you are sitting and try to get up you have the pins and needles sensation but are not able to weight bare for a few seconds..
This may help also, when you touch something hot, the sensory fibers relay this quickly to the brain.. Then the brain sends a message to the motor fibers to move..Health Question & Answer
When you lay on your leg or arm it cuts off (not entirely but mostly) the circulation of blood to that area.. That feeling and the swelling is from your blood rushing back into that area..Health Question & Answer
beetlemilk - how about using plain English every1 can understand.?.? Your choice of words are appalling!Health Question & Answer
thats due to the lack of blood circulation in your armHealth Question & Answer