Hand/arm numbness during sleep

My daughter had covid a year ago and is just now experiencing this.

I got Covid in October 2022 I’m 75 now and also wake up with numbness in usually right arm or hand. It’s the foggy feeling I get that bothers me most. I have to consistently push through the day to get anything done. I’m a Real estate broker and usually have great energy but now often have tough days. I’m always told I look young but I don’t feel it lately.

I do! I had Covid twice in '20 and '21. With each and every passing month, newer and more horrible symptoms appear. It's horrible!!!! As you know, us LT Covid sufferers get neurological issues; hence, numbness. Because Covid affects and messes with our blood flow/clotting, etc (it's no longer a lung issue as originally thought) it's what's causing it.

Kinda like if you sit on your arm, leg or even butt too long and you can get the numbness, but in our case it's from LT Covid that messed up our blood flow.

Makes me so angry such a horrible beast of a virus was created, robbing us of our lives. I was so darn healthy and active prior to Covid 🙁

It's so hard for people who aren't experiencing what we are to begin to even understand the torture, including all the Doctors we see who are of no help or don't even care to help us and brush us off.

@srackerby1 - Covid not only robbed me of my fabulous and wonderful life I had, but aged me 10 yrs. Prior to Covid (twice) folks thought I was much, much younger than my age.

Exquisitely well said. I too was at the 'top of my game' physically and mentally until 6/2020. It is perplexing me why my blood flow would be so diminished during sleep even if I am not noticably lying on my affected limb.

Me as well!

I just don't get it, all those folks out there who got Covid, some 2 or 3 times, recovered fine and back their normal life. Why us? What caused this? Per info it sounds like our bodies had some pre-existing condition prior, i.e., CFS, EPV, etc, but who knows.

Not sure if you saw my post about statins, I posted today which as you know works along with blood. It's very interesting indeed. I wish more folks would have chimed in on that post, but. . . maybe I'm right in assuming those on statins do not get Covid or especially LT Covid; hence they wouldn't be on this forum.

It looks like it all comes down to our blood and the damage it causes. Also interesting is Blood Type A's (that's me) are more prone to Covid due to our DNA and immune system. I know several folks, including my neighbor who both had Covid. Her husband (blood type A) was so ill and still suffering with racing heart, she tested positive with no symptoms as all - she's blood type O.

Agreed, the cognitive issues are by far the most debilitating and I know this to be common. I was just wondering how many also experience this numbness that wakes me from my sleep.

Have you had your thyroid checked recently? Low thyroid can cause fatigue and numbness and tingling in your hands. I had those symptoms and thought I had carpel tunnel in both hands, but blood tests showed I had low thyroid. A few weeks after starting thyroid supplements, those symptoms went away.

My pinky fingers numb up during the night & it wakes me up. I got COVID in September 2022 & it was mild. Then all the horrible long haul symptoms appeared & still continue. Although a few have diminished. My insomnia( since this began), dizziness, nausea, headaches & sweating are the symptoms I deal with on a day to day basis now for the past 11 months. Hoping this nightmare will end soon.
RR