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Comment on what are the chances of irreparable damage due to obstructed blood circulation during sleep?

yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

If you’re in a civilized part of the world, see a doctor.

If you’re in the US or other failed state without medical facilities: is the area cyanotic or discoloured in any way? If not and you still have some sensation is there any obvious things still pinching the area, like a poorly fitting belt? If not and it’s really been two days but you still have full function (i.e. you can fully extend toes, your ankle range of motion isn’t reduced, you can walk pretty much at all) then you have a pinched nerve and it’s fine but you need to find a solution to sleeping to restore full sensation eventually.

If your foots discoloured and/or you’ve lost function for two days, congrats. You get to go find medical help or take a hacksaw to your foot in a week when it really starts rotting.

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Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

take a hacksaw to your foot in a week when it really starts rotting.

Apparently people really do that in the US.

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- NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Nobody I’ve ever heard of.
  
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  - sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Not a hacksaw, but I’ve dug fairly large glass shards and other sharp splinters out of my foot and sterilized and bandaged/stiched it up on my own, as opposed to going to doctor who would charge quite a lot… I’ve done that a good number of times.
    
    None of them went deep enough to hit a major nerve or blood vessel, I’d probably have to go to an urgent care/hospital at that point.
    
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sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I would add to try regularly massaging the area and alternating between cold paks and hot paks … that might help a bit if its not a serious problem as outlined above.

If doing that for a few days yields little to no improvement… or is extremely painful… go to a doctor.

Also, probably just take your mattress off the frame, put it on the ground, roll up blankets or use pillows or something to extend the effective length of the matress, until you can get a larger mattress and different frame that doesn’t allow for this problem to occur.

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