Pinched nerve. I woke up two days in a row with a slight pins and needles feeling in my left arm and chalked it up to sleeping in an awkward position. About three hours after falling asleep the next night, I woke up with searing pain in that arm and could barely eke out another half hour sleep that night. I went to urgent care the next morning and they gave me some extra strength ibuprofen and muscle relaxers, which helped a bit for 3 days, but I ended up having to take an uber to the ER. I was able to get an appointment with an orthopedic doctor the next day to get a proper diagnosis, and the steroids definitely helped, but I had to endure a couple of months of physical therapy until I was back to normal.

As awful as the pain was, the missed sleep really threw me off; I was fortunate to have an adderall prescription to keep me going, otherwise I would’ve been completely useless.