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If you have a pinched nerve in your neck do you sleep on that side?

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Pinched nerve: It is best to find out which positions aggravate the neck pain and avoid those.

Dr Baez and 2 doctors agreed

Answered 9/11/2013

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In & out of sleep , bruxism , anxiety, pinched nerve in neck. Anyways , heard loud beep from alarm , woke up , pinching pain on top of scalp hurt then thighs & calves got tingly .what was that?

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Right lower arm and calf go numb when sleeping with upper neck and eye irritation, sometimes eye hard to open. Could this be a pinched nerve could it be something else. Limbs wake up when I move and turn neck. Thank you?

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I meant to say my 3 year old boy's neck is bent to the right side because I let him sleep more on his right when he was still a baby.I was told that if I bent his neck to the left side every morning for a few minutes he'll be ok.Is this true.

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