before and I dismissed it as merely going to sleep on my arm no big deal. i.e I sleeping on it wrong. Thereby cutting off the
blood flow to my arm & hand. The thing is I didn't notice a numbness in my arm at all. It was all in my hand. (And it took quite
a while to subside.) Strangely, I did not even awaken to find myself sleeping over the top of my arm. In fact, I awoke sleeping
on my right side with my left arm on top and down at my side.
FOR HOURS, the night before,I had been playing guitar/ working on Beast of Burden, J.J's Banana Pancakes, & D.R.'s
Cannonball...all fairly demanding of the left hand except perhaps the Damien Rice tune... a lot of thumb over the top with Keif,
and some relatively fast fretting barred minor seventh stuff with Jack. And don't get me wrong, none of it was shred metal. I'm
just saying it was more demanding than 1st position cowboy chords. But what I was playing is probably neither here nor there.
What it likely comes down to is HOW I play, & HOW LONG I play.
I have experienced similar symptoms during waking hours...after playing. Sometimes after long- extended marathon playing sessions. Other times just after a short time. Some of those times, I have taken breaks/ ceased playing. Occasionally I have played through the pain, like the simpleton that I am.(Thinking to hell with this..."if I'm going down, I'm going down strummin, pluckin', & picking!" lol! What can I say, I come from stubborn stock. My dad once finished a double-hitter in left field a with dislocated shoulder. And I'm not him obviously...But I bring that up because I pretty much have that bull- headed streak ingrained in my DNA. And in the way I was raised. "Hell ,you ain't bleeding you're alright." And I believe that in the past, that it has related to my guitar playing. I have never been one to warm up properly or any of that stuff. (but I aim to start!) I just play and play & play some more....
Although,I'm really not sure what is going on. I have a history of heart attack, stroke, and diabetes in my family. So that concerns me. (A male "Lueders" doesn't have a very long life expectancy.
...an endangered species of sorts.lol) Obviously, I need to start taking care of myself. Thirty five is definitely old enough to die of a heart attack. I had a cousin, about a month ago...who out in New Jersey was playing video games with very young son and had a heart attack at 39! (Great guy, too!) His situation is similar to mine in many ways: unresolved stress at work, drastic weight gain, and not taking care of himself the way he should. Anyways, sorry for the novel here. Just really got me thinking...
I debated about whether to post this or not. And I certainly hope I am overreacting. But I dunno?
Has anyone experienced any of the same kinds of things?
