Do you ever get that thing, when you're trying to sleep but can't, because your arms are JUST IN THE WAY

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and no matter what you do or where you put them, they just GET IN THE WAY.

I can't describe it accurately any other way, I'm afraid. DH knew exactly what I meant when I told him that was why I couldn't sleep last night.

Ridiculous, isn't it?

Yes, constantly! Then I'll fall asleep and wake up at 4am having squished an arm (or leg) to the point it's gone totally dead, but I've moved slightly so all the blood's come back, and there's now the worst pins and needles. Bloody arms just constantly get in the way

Yes!!!!! Thank God it not just me. This only just started in the last few years.

Oh I have found my people!!

I have pins and needles and numb hands from lying on my front with arms tucked under boobs so they don't get painfully squashed as I can only sleep.on my front, if I try to sleep in my side my arms are just lolling about 😂

I've been getting this really badly the last few months. My arms kind of go numb and I have to move and then nothing is comfortable

I thought it was just me. This is fairly recent, but I am waking up in the night and I just can't get comfortable again

I absolutely know what you mean! And if your on your side does the shoulder on the top feel like it's too bent towards the mattress?

it's funny because Iv been really trying to think about it and I never remember this being a problem when I was a child or young person.

The weird thing is I can lay on my right side, arms all accounted for and comfy but then try my left side and it's like I've gained an extra arm! Why does it just "work" on one side but not the other?

I've always wanted to unscrew my arms when in bed. It's not as though my body has a natural crevice into which the bottom arm fits. It's just there, in the way, whichever side I sleep. I'm envious of people who sleep on their back, how do they balance their head? Or do they have a U-shaped pillow into which their head sinks?

Yes! I swear I even posted this once and no one replied so I thought it was just me. Shoulder and arm just in the way all the time.

So glad it's not just me! Sometimes wake up with a painful hand full of pins and needles thanks to sleeping with it under my head, just so it's not IN THE WAY!

Ive found my people!! When I say this to dp he laughed. Arms are the worst!!!!

When I was a child I started thinking about how there were snakes and monsters under my bed that would come out and tickle my underarms so I started to sleep with my elbow tucked under my head. As I've got older though I've found I can't get comfy in any other way but this is causing pain in my shoulder and at the top of my arm. If I try to sleep in any other position I end up with a dead arm: I remember one strange night when I woke and tried to prop myself up but my arm collapsed under my weight and I thought that someone must have come and stolen the bone from it!

Me too!

I'd love this but it seems ott to swap a perfectly good mattress

Hilarious. And no. You are all weird

When I lie on my right my arms just seem to settle in a natural comfortable position. I cant sleep on my right though and soon as I move to my left my arms just get in the way. I agree they should definitely be detachable

Yes. My ex and I called this "spare arm" as in our experience it was one arm that was the problem at any given moment in this phenomenon.

Yes!!

Omg yes this is me!!! I fold them , I put one under my pillow and my hand between my knees in fact I'm in all sorts of positions through the night and not able to sleep with my arms (a few swear words are involved too!!) .
Does anyone find their tongue is in the way too? It has started to really scare me lately for some reason I'm aware of my tongue feeling like it's too big for my mouth and I don't know where to put it !!! Feels like it's going to slip down my throat sometimes!

I thought it was just because I have swimmers shoulders, I didn't realise this was a thing. Where exactly are you supposed to put them when you lie on your side?
Neighbour used to dislocate his elbow in his sleep!

God yes. Arms are a bastard for sleeping with. I really empathised with Eve Polastri at the beginning of the first episode of Killing Eve when she woke up screaming because she couldn’t move her arms as they were trapped under her.

As I’ve got older I’ve found a little cushion tucked between my knees is SO
comfy.

Yes. We always laugh about my 'spare' am in bed. It doesn't belong anywhere. The only thing that helps is to put my pillow at 45° tipping down towards my front. That gives you a shelf to put your top arm on. Does that make any sense? The one underneath still flaps about in an unruly manner though

Perhaps it's because I sleep alone that I don't get this. I also had surgery for breast cancer and, as a front sleeper (at least to begin with), that was a challenge at the time. I have a feather pillow that's seen better days (quite thin) which I kind of mould under my chin/into my neck and boobs somehow, which does the trick. I take that pillow with me whenever I stay away - without it everything is hopeless.

Yes!! Never know what to do with my arms some nights.

twospaniels I feel your pain re tennis elbow! Anything you've found that helps? I can barely straighten mine

Yes. Bloody arms, totally usually things. I suppose they at least hold the phone latest classical literature that I am reading.