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Your limb filing a complaint after you sat on it wrong.
means An abnormal tingling, prickling, or numb 'pins and needles' sensation on the skin, usually without any outside cause.
from Built in medical Latin/Greek from Greek 'para-' (abnormal, beside) plus 'aisthesis' (sensation, feeling) — the same root that gives us 'anesthesia' and 'aesthetic.' So paresthesia literally means feeling gone sideways: not numbness, not pain, just sensation filed wrong.
- the cause
- nerve under pressure, misfiring static instead of signal
- pins and needles
- blood and nerves rebooting at slightly different speeds
- phantom version
- can happen with zero physical pressure at all
- chronic form
- sometimes signals nerve damage, not just a dead leg