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Can someone help me make sense of my nighttime numbness?

Hi everyone,

Here's my story: For awhile, I've been experiencing some on and off tingling in the arms and legs. At night, I wake up with an arm, leg or both numb. When I move it around some and change position, it gets better. But this happens every night. I got an MRI (or maybe it was an MRA) because I feared MS and found out I have a 'questionable small 2mm (unruptured) aneurysm near the left MCA bifurcation.' The doc does NOT seem to think the numbness and tingling is caused by the annie. In addition to seeing a neurosurgeon in a week for the annie, he wants me to see a neurologist for the nighttime numbness.

What on earth could this be? I was thinking Restless Legs Syndrome but it doesn't completely fit with RLS symptoms. I mean, if it's not dangerous I can live with it. I just don't want to have some life threatening condition and not know.

Any ideas? Possibilities? Clues? I am 29 years old, a mother of two. I am of thin to average body weight, low blood pressure. I work at home with a laptop on my lap. I was wondering if it could be a combination of carpal tunnel and a back issue? Or perhaps a harmless side effect of low blood pressure? I am NOT diabetic, I was diagnosed pre-diabetic a few years back but at my last two sugar checks my levels were perfectly normal.

Thanks!

Angela
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Is it possible that your habit of sitting with the laptop is starting to pinch nerves in the neck? I read a book written by a chiro and one of his patients kept coming in with a sore neck. He met her at her office one day and saw her on her cell phone with it tucked between her head and shoulder. You know how small these are, so she really had her neck cranked. When asked, she told him she spent maybe 4 hours a day on her little phone and yeah, she liked to do other things with her hands while yakking.

So maybe you need to stop doing the laptop thing for a bit and do some stretching exercises to get muscles relaxed again.
Lee
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Have you had an MRI of your cervical spine?  Any problem with a disk etc...can affect you from the neck down.
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