Extremity goes to sleep

Don't sleep on your left side or with your hand above your heart.



...and talk to your doctor about this, it may be something serious.

A. Go see your doctor.
B. Listen to Sturgis
C. I remember as a kid getting a sleepy arm once in a while, then called 'needles and pins' and it was because I somehow misaligned my body so that it was heavy over the arm.
D. Decades later, I read in bed with batches of pillows and sometimes the left or right arm will be up there getting a pillow to stay up, after which I fall asleep. I'll notice it, just hurting a little, not needles and pins, and adjust matters.
E. This could be serious, don't be cheap, go see your m.d.
F. I presume you have one, don't you? I know you are into alternative stuff, but I hope not entirely.

Thanks, Urg, in stitches (only figuratively) once more; you guys keep me in the best of humor

Oh I did, had x-rays etc w/no luck, but apparently it's so mysterious that she's given up on me

Often when I awaken in this position with tingly fingers I roll over as my leftie isn't so vulnerable

Bin'r,'dunat as see Stur above

Very interesting Osso (see, 'mem'd) and one would suppose it might be a more common occurrence that I suppose; though my doc hasn't yet made this connection; possibly 'cuz so old (me not her)

Again most interesting; while I have many such similar methods

Have to admit, am chskt of worst kind, can only conclude the annoyance to be so common as not to require attn

Anybody else with alternative, pref from personal exp

You may be right, hard to tell from here.

By the way I'm not against all of alternative medicine.
I'm aware of regular medicine's history, my reading about intensely from around age 13.

I am a science person, but of course science craves testing.

Oh me neither. In fact I suspect many of such work just as well as the corresponding 'scrip's

...while, cynnic that I am, costing 1/25 as much

Alas though, such credential doesn't guarantee a perfectly honest approach

I too used to read when I was a kid

I take 5-htp. It increased serotonin which makes you feel better and more relaxed. I have no idea why it would help a problem you think is circulatory.

PS: If you are taking 5-htp, are you also taking B6? If so, switch from the "normal" B6 to a form of B6 called "P-5-P". the "normal", (cheap) supplement is called pyroxidine. It is converted in the liver to P-5-P, which the body uses. Apparently pyroxidine, (the "normal" B6), can cause some tingling in the extremeties. So far as I know, P-5-P does not cause this. P-5-P is only a little bit more expensive than the "normal" pyroxidine. Solgar sells P-5-P, or you can send away and get it real cheap, in a online supplier like this,which I have used often:

http://www.vitacost.com/vitacost-p-5-p-pyridoxal-5-phosphate

http://www.vitacost.com/vitacost-p-5-p-pyridoxal-5-phosphate

I tend to take my P-5-P sublingually, crushed up with an eyedropper's full of 40-50% alcohol and the rest water. Rum or any 80 proof spirit may also be used. The skin under the tongue and on the inside of the cheeks is full of blood vessels, the mixture goes directly into the blood and gives a calming effect in just a couple of minutes.

Are you saying our laboratory lied, through years of our lives? and distrust my and our credentials?

Sorry, here is the sublingual form of P-5-P:

http://www.vitacost.com/source-naturals-coenzymated-b-6-sublingual-25-mg-60-sublingual-tablets-1

That's what I'd like to know. But Blick many thanks for the sugg; I'll send a link to my BH, now in the process of ordering

No I don't remember any such but sometimes when I try to inject a note of humor, can be misunderftood

Not humorous to scientists who spend their lives in research.


So, how is your arm?

Fine thanks Osso with continued used of 5-htp and Advil. The former however, casts some doubt as it's supposedly not to be used with depression meds

Incidentally, its main use to improve mood, one side effect listed is anxiety, so whadjado

https://www.google.com/?client=safari&channel=mac_bm#channel=mac_bm&q=5-htp+anxiety