My trip to the hospital

The only way I can sleep is on my side...

Am I going to die?

No, but if you sleep in the wrong exact spot, you can have permanent nerve damage and your hand will be worthless. But the odds of that happening is slim.

The only way I can sleep is on my side... Am I going to die?

Yes .

On the topic of sleeping, does anybody not sleep in some variation of the fetal position?

Nope. Stomach.

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Must have been a terribly scary few hours, WKFF - glad you're OK.

You'd have thunk that if it were the progressive disease, though, it wouldn't jump on you without warning like that. I'd imagine there'd be some sort of gradual deterioration.

That'd suck, every day you wake up and a little bit more of you is paralyzed until you can't move at all.

Fuck that.

this happens to me sometimes since i can only get to sleep on my side, i got told its due to the body part being under enough pressure to stop the proper circulation of blood to the muscles in that body part.

a small example would also be resting your head on your hand and losing all feeling in that hand for a short period of time if you do it the right way.

Yes, definitely. That's what I thought too though. But apparently it happens that way sometimes too.

I sleep on my stomach, as well. Example pix below! C&P ftw.


Anyway, I suffer from the occasional Sleep Paralysis. It can be rather panic-inducing if you have no idea what's going on. You're completely aware of your surroundings, yet you can't speak, make any sounds, or even move a finger or toe.

I had the same thing happen this morning. They have no clue what it is, could be a mixture of unrelated things. I think I've got a messed up disk. Muscle relaxers make a nigga goto sleep.

Hmmm, that sucks. It seems to me that if it were something like a disease it would have kicked in before now.

Yea, I think I have a disk fucked up or something. I have to talk to a neurologist and have some nerve tests done. They looked at me in MRIs and CT-scans, and I have no indicators of any diseases or conditions. Could be my own unique case, or it could be that I have a disk fucked up and they didn't MRI my lower area of my back like I asked them to. I'm going with the latter, and thinking I may need some back surgery.