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@erichendrix

My hand drop has progressed to "hands feel like they don't want to move anymore." It feels like my limbs are turning into clay. I can still move them, but what used to be mostly automatic now requires a deliberate effort using manual override. It's like if you've ever woken to an arm that went to "sleep" because of impeded circulation. At first, the "sleeping" limb is numb and will not move. That is what I have now, to a lesser degree, when my arm is at rest, but it seems to be slowly worsening.

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I feel for you. My arms got so bad while sleeping that I wear long wrist supports to bed every night, at the suggestion of folks on here, especially @johnbishop . Something turns my arms “off” very easily, and some stools (especially metal) seem to turn my legs off sometimes. It’s almost like a switch that turns the power completely off in my arms or legs, and takes a while to shake it off and get the current flowing again. It seems my nerves must be easily compressed. I can’t sit at a computer for long. It seems no matter how I position my arms, elbows, or wrists, they become unusable very quickly, and I try them out often, can’t stay on a computer more than 15 minutes at a time. My last EMG on one arm and leg for PN was 2+ years ago, and I recall a note to the effect that due to PN, carpal tunnel couldn’t be distinguished but was possible. But my fingers really affected are my pinky & ring fingers on both arms, and I know those are the ulna nerve system vs carpal. But either way, they say it’s PN and I need to live with it, so I took the advice on buying wrist/forearm supports for sleeping, and I have had a 95% improvement in not waking up with the dead, non-moving arms from compressing them while I sleep!