Usually, paresthesia is painless and harmless. The most common form is transient paresthesia, It means that the feeling is temporary or doesn't last long once your blood gets flowing again.

Read more: Foods Astronauts Are Banned From Eating On The ISS There's actually a name for the experience of waking up with limbs that have apparently gone to sleep: Transient paresthesia.

Lumbar puncture was performed with a 22-gauge needle at the 4th–5th interspace. A transient paresthesia was produced in the left leg, but the cerebrospinal fluid was clear and dripped freely.

A 62-year-old woman presents to the emergency room (ER) with the chief complaint of left facial numbness. She describes the sudden onset of left facial numbness associated with "dizziness," which ...