Comment by johnisgood

Thank you! :(. It is also referred to as wristdrop.

> If you sleep in a position that causes radial nerve compression, you may wake up experiencing numbness and tingling along the back of your arm, forearm, and hand. With more severe compression, you may also experience “wrist drop”. With wrist drop, your wrist becomes limp, and is unable to extend up.

This is what happened. It happened to me before 2 times, but this time it was only about 30 mins long compression so it is not THAT severe as it was the previous 2 times.

The reason I expanded on it is that just mere 30 minutes of sleeping on your arm may damage the nerves which results in radial nerve palsy. I would have never imagined it would happen to me, heck, I had no idea it was a thing. I had limp arms before from compression but that was related to only blood circulation, not nerve damage.

Radial nerve palsy is a nightmare for programmers. The first one was so severe that I lost my muscle memory, meaning I could not access some of my accounts.

Treatment is rest, selective electrical stimulation, and B1-B6-B12 combination, ideally injected IM. The faster the better. The first incident took months to recover, this one may only last 3 weeks.