If I make my foot fall asleep and let it stay asleep for a while can that be bad?!
Question: If I make my foot fall asleep and let it stay asleep for a while can that be bad.?
I'm sitting with my legs crossed right now and my foot is going to sleep. I'm poking it and it feels cool haha.
Anyways, my question... Can a "sleeping" foot/hand/arm/etc be bad if it's "sleeping" for too long.? What happens, and how long is too long.?Health Question & Answer
Anyways, my question... Can a "sleeping" foot/hand/arm/etc be bad if it's "sleeping" for too long.? What happens, and how long is too long.?Health Question & Answer
Answers:
Please disregard the previous posts, for the most part they are incorrect/uninformed.
The tingling and eventual numbness you feel is due to lack of [enough] oxygen in the tissue. Your limb falls asleep because pressure is being put on an artery that leads to that area of your body and cuts off your circulation, and it IS possible to cut off all circulation, there are many routes blood takes to circulate the body.
THIS IS BAD! All cells/tissue need oxygen and cannot survive without it. If you continue to allow your foot to be asleep for too long then these cells/tissues will start to deteriorate and eventually die. The result in this will be amputation. It would take a while for this to happen (an exact amount of time I can't say), but it is best that you change position as soon as you feel it coming on or, if you don't realize it has fallen asleep, as soon as you do notice it.Health Question & Answer
The tingling and eventual numbness you feel is due to lack of [enough] oxygen in the tissue. Your limb falls asleep because pressure is being put on an artery that leads to that area of your body and cuts off your circulation, and it IS possible to cut off all circulation, there are many routes blood takes to circulate the body.
THIS IS BAD! All cells/tissue need oxygen and cannot survive without it. If you continue to allow your foot to be asleep for too long then these cells/tissues will start to deteriorate and eventually die. The result in this will be amputation. It would take a while for this to happen (an exact amount of time I can't say), but it is best that you change position as soon as you feel it coming on or, if you don't realize it has fallen asleep, as soon as you do notice it.Health Question & Answer
Yeah actually it can be bad because by it going numb it means you don't have circulation in your leg. I don't know what will happen, but it probably isn't good to do it for too long.Health Question & Answer
It won't be life threatening. You could probably keep it like that for hours on end and all you'll feel is numb. Remember, you're cutting off your blood supply to that body part.Health Question & Answer
That won't truly cut off your circulation, only help to lessen it. Chances are that if you were doing it at a potentially dangerous level it would be very uncomfortable.Health Question & Answer
im pretty sure that your foot needs blood circulation to keep tissues and stuff alive so yeah cutting blood off for too long would be really bad. Health Question & Answer
i actually like it when my foot falls asleep but I don't think it could do any harm.Health Question & Answer
i have no cloo.. my foot is also asleep -.-
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we shall see what the others say :]Health Question & Answer
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