Anyone else get crazy numbness in hands while sleeping?

[mikevegas]

For about the past year I've been getting numbness in my hands at night. It's not every night, but often enough and usually worse on the nights that I lifted. I do see a chirpractor almost weekly, but this isn't going away. Anyone else experiencing this, or have any feedback to share?

 

[immortalis]

For about the past year I've been getting numbness in my hands at night. It's not every night, but often enough and usually worse on the nights that I lifted. I do see a chirpractor almost weekly, but this isn't going away. Anyone else experiencing this, or have any feedback to share?

yeah man, i have a little bit. There was a thread about this exact subject probably about 2 months back. It seems to really only happen to me when I am on gear or working out very very hardcore. I believe it has to do with how we lay on our shoulders, and constricting the blood flow to our arms... but why or how I really dont know for sure.... at least not enough to come out and say "Yeah THIS is why... "

 

[SgtSlaughter]

Doesn't happen to me anymore... i think the masssage therapists worked the "stuff" out of my shoulder area.

used to not be able to sleep on my stomach with my arms up... otherwise i'd wake up and my arms would feel like play dough and i couldn't move them.

Sleep on your back is the temporary solution. If you're already doing that I'm not sure.

 

[bbkingpin]

Are you on hGH?

 

[mikevegas]

I haven't been on anything for most of the year. Small anavar cycle a couple months ago. I see a massage therapist twice a week and again the chiro about once a week. I usually sleep side or back, and actually back seems to be worse when it comes to getting the numbness.

 

[starskulker]

I have the same problem and yes it is worse when on cycle. It's usuaally the pinky and ring finger up to the middle finger and the palm area surrounding it that goes numb. Sometimes it goes up to the elbow. I'm pretty sure also that its a shoulder thing do to increased muscle mass maybe pressing down on a nerve area.

 

[solidspine]

Stop seeing the chiropractor, he will really screw things up!

You need to get a girl friend and stop doing what you know you are doing, could break your wrist.


Also will develop warts.

 

[pitbullrocco]

i'm thinking nerves too.....could carpel, toc or whatever that other dude wrote about in that other thread.....

but i'm not a doctor neither....and good luck finding a doctor that can figure it out.....i've had EEG's, ECG's, EFG's EZG's, all the EG's, x-rays, MRI's, a billion and one questionare about symptons, etc,etc about my wrists and not a single fucking doctor can narrow down except eeg's show slight carpel.....but i only show a few carpel symptoms....

good lucketh

 

[karachi183]

check your bp

 

[immortalis]

I have the same problem and yes it is worse when on cycle. It's usuaally the pinky and ring finger up to the middle finger and the palm area surrounding it that goes numb. Sometimes it goes up to the elbow. I'm pretty sure also that its a shoulder thing do to increased muscle mass maybe pressing down on a nerve area.

Im pretty sure this is the conclusion we came up with in the previous thread I was talkin about. I think its either the added mass causing constriction either on a main nerve, or restricting blood flow. But as I said, i dont know for sure and i dont claim to be a doctor hehe

 

[stormin67]

Part of the price we pay to grow. Sometimes I find it helps to have another pillow, to prop your arm up while on your side. At least this way only one arm goes numb at a time.

 

[mikefear]

happens to me. dunno, i think i just end up sleeping on my arms and stuff.

 

[justinjones1963]

I had that problem (it also radiated through my entire arm) but it was due to too many airborne ops and landing on that shoulder. The injury damaged some nerves and it affected my left hand and arm. I noticed a few years later that when I would life heavy it would bother me more. I went to see a physical therapist and they gave me some rotator cuff and shoulder exercises to stabilize it. It worked.

Also, it could be a C6 or C7 vertebra problem (I cannot remember which one it is) but I know there is a nerve that runs from C6 or C7 that goes to the hands and if that nerve gets pinches it can cause problems. I got hit in a car accident and this triggered the nerve. Exercise worked out that kink. If you are seeing a chiropractor then I doubt it is a vertebra issue.

This site gives an overview of some of the exercises I did - they were not the traditional dumbbell press / lateral raises etc. (the normal BB exercises we are all used too). They all involved no weight (or very low weight). It is amazing how the little exercises can make a difference with injuries.

http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/booklet/view_exercise.cfm?Thread_ID=19&topcategory=Shoulder

Good luck.

 

[SwolK]

to me it sounds like a nerve in your brachial plexius. ( area between shoulder pec)
it may be pinched

 

[mikevegas]

I had that problem (it also radiated through my entire arm) but it was due to too many airborne ops and landing on that shoulder. The injury damaged some nerves and it affected my left hand and arm. I noticed a few years later that when I would life heavy it would bother me more. I went to see a physical therapist and they gave me some rotator cuff and shoulder exercises to stabilize it. It worked.

Also, it could be a C6 or C7 vertebra problem (I cannot remember which one it is) but I know there is a nerve that runs from C6 or C7 that goes to the hands and if that nerve gets pinches it can cause problems. I got hit in a car accident and this triggered the nerve. Exercise worked out that kink. If you are seeing a chiropractor then I doubt it is a vertebra issue.

This site gives an overview of some of the exercises I did - they were not the traditional dumbbell press / lateral raises etc. (the normal BB exercises we are all used too). They all involved no weight (or very low weight). It is amazing how the little exercises can make a difference with injuries.

http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/booklet/view_exercise.cfm?Thread_ID=19&topcategory=Shoulder

Good luck.

Thanks for that info!

 

[SgtSlaughter]

this may be a good read for you:

http://www.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?t=472647

P.S. I'm about 20lbs heavier since starting that thread and no numbness anymore (or at least everynight like it used to be)... only things I've changed: Deep Tissue massages, Bill Star 5x5 training, more food... still natty.

 

[stormin67]

Congrats on the 20lbs.

 

[SgtSlaughter]

Congrats on the 20lbs.

Thanks bro! ... been about 5 months. Was cutting then... now i'm mid clean bulk.

I attribute the massages to the lack of numbness... speaking of which i need another one soon

 

[Massive Pumps]

it happens to me all the time started since i been lifting 4 yrs straight now think it has to do with the way we lay and pumped up mucles in your arms ect nothing to worry about although sometime i wake up thinking i had a stroke cause i cant feel my left or right arm

 

[drols of steel]

Man I dont know what the hell it is but It's happening to me as well...Like poor circulation..wtf??

 

[smoke67]

I seem to have the same prob when on but I have something stranger to add, I will have one arm covered in sweat. The rest of my body is fine other than the one arm. It just happens when I am on. Go figure??????????

 

[mikevegas]

Man I dont know what the hell it is but It's happening to me as well...Like poor circulation..wtf??

Same here. Feels like you fell asleep on your arm and the circulation was cut off. Totally numb and tingling. Problem is you can't fall asleep on both arms at the same time, especially when you wake up flat on your back. So you can rule out the blood flow.

 

[lifthard2005]

i always wake up and my entire pinky finger and part of my hand are numb as hell, been scaring me lately.......one night i woke up and couldnt feel either hand at all for a few minutes.....and i hate how it feels numb too.....like it is dead

 

[TraxZBT]

I get it too.. almost every night. It's worse when i'm ON, so I would always attribute it to the extra blood just pooling. Only happens when I sleep with my arms above my head... other than that, the only way i've found to solve it is basically sleep with my arms to my side.

 

[txmike]

In Jan I developed numbness in my fingers. In weeks it moved up the arms and at night I was in so much pain while laying down that I would wake up. I chose to see a chiropractor who became a chiro, because he had the same thing happen to him as a rugby player, but the doctor he found could only offer pain meds and an operation.
Within a few hours of my first chiro appointment the pain was cut in half.
The chiro said it did appear to be pinched nerves in my shoulders, but without electrical nerve tests he couldn't be 100% positive.
I saw the chiro 3x/week for months. The pain disappeared and the numbness was almost totally gone until 3 weeks ago when I started lifting heavy again. I've narrowed it down to arm day. Two days after arm day I have increased numbness and now pain, but within a few days it subsides. I've talked with other guys in my gym and many get some numbness from time to time.

 

[SgtSlaughter]

Everyone needs some deep tissue massages.. make sure they work all around your shoulder girdle specifically as well as your arms, and back... just that... and not the legs prolly get it done in a inexpensive 30 minute appoitment.

 

[gunrunner]

anyone have there fingers slightly pop at the knuckles? Mine are the middle fingers. Can't figure if it's the letro, hgh, or the test? Maybe it's payback time for all the people I flipped off as a kid..

 

[turbogreek]

it happens to me almost every night. every few months i go to the doctor and he injects me witth anti-inflamitories and then gives me a script for 10 days. for me it's a pinched nerve.

both my arms were numb one night and as i tried to get up i fell out of bed. thats how bad it was for me. i almost dislocated my shoulder with that fall. thats when i went to the doctor.

 

[Otis Hurtz]

I get it and I believe that it is due to poor circulation from laying on the shoulder. I found that if I lay on my side with my arm out in front of me (like laying on you bi with a pellow between) I get it more often. To fix the problem I turn me elbow so that it forms a 90 degree angle and then I turn my wrist so that the palm of my hand is facing the celing that most of the numbness goes away.

But as stated earlier this is the price we have to pay to grow. The bigger my shoulders get the more problems I have.

Good luck and I hope this helps.

 

[txmike]

I get it and I believe that it is due to poor circulation from laying on the shoulder. I found that if I lay on my side with my arm out in front of me (like laying on you bi with a pellow between) I get it more often. To fix the problem I turn me elbow so that it forms a 90 degree angle and then I turn my wrist so that the palm of my hand is facing the celing that most of the numbness goes away.

But as stated earlier this is the price we have to pay to grow. The bigger my shoulders get the more problems I have.

Good luck and I hope this helps.

Otis....Good one.
I've tried a lot of different arm positions without much success.
I've had it bad today and your exercise made a difference.

Thanks,
Mike

 

[immortalis]

this may be a good read for you:

http://www.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?t=472647

P.S. I'm about 20lbs heavier since starting that thread and no numbness anymore (or at least everynight like it used to be)... only things I've changed: Deep Tissue massages, Bill Star 5x5 training, more food... still natty.

good job searg. I tried findin this thread but it was FAR too burried for me to track it down. *golf clap*