anyone ever go numb down below?
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anyone ever go numb down below?
2 or 3 times in the last few months after a longer ride I find that I've lost almost
all sensation in a rather significant area.
Not tingly like something fell asleep, but totally numb like I got shot with a pint of Novocaine
Everything returns to normal almost immediately. Maybe 30 - 45 seconds after I get off the bike.
Been riding for years and this never happened before.
anyone ever experience this?
all sensation in a rather significant area.
Not tingly like something fell asleep, but totally numb like I got shot with a pint of Novocaine
Everything returns to normal almost immediately. Maybe 30 - 45 seconds after I get off the bike.
Been riding for years and this never happened before.
anyone ever experience this?
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If you ride with a wallet, I would try taking it out to see if it is compressing a nerve or blood vessel leading to the affected area. I don't think I've ever had that problem but I've had other places go numb. Maybe a new seat will help, but I would look for simple solutions first. Sorry I couldn't be more help.
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2 or 3 times in the last few months after a longer ride I find that I've lost almost
all sensation in a rather significant area.
Not tingly like something fell asleep, but totally numb like I got shot with a pint of Novocaine
Everything returns to normal almost immediately. Maybe 30 - 45 seconds after I get off the bike.
Been riding for years and this never happened before.
anyone ever experience this?
all sensation in a rather significant area.
Not tingly like something fell asleep, but totally numb like I got shot with a pint of Novocaine
Everything returns to normal almost immediately. Maybe 30 - 45 seconds after I get off the bike.
Been riding for years and this never happened before.
anyone ever experience this?
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Happened every time I got on the scoot. I always told the little lady I've been setting on said unit and it went numb! :-) She finally convinced me that at my age it was time to stop wearing the ole 501 button fly, super straight, ultra tight leg, look like a beetle jeans and get some of them with a scoach more room, you know the ones made for us old farts. Ain't been an issue since!
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Happened to me once, out riding in the north, about minus 40, no clothes on, went numb in the first couple miles ........ 
Seriously, never on the Harley, but I have had it happen on bicycles. I even asked the doc about it because I didn't want my ***** to "turn black, dry up and fall off". He suggested the same as others here, give the boys some more room and change position on the seat. It's a nerve thing, forgot what he called it and yes, the first time it is pretty freaky, especially wondering if the feeling will come back.
Seriously, never on the Harley, but I have had it happen on bicycles. I even asked the doc about it because I didn't want my ***** to "turn black, dry up and fall off". He suggested the same as others here, give the boys some more room and change position on the seat. It's a nerve thing, forgot what he called it and yes, the first time it is pretty freaky, especially wondering if the feeling will come back.
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Fortunately, no. I'd guess mild compression of a nerve puts the area to sleep after a long time just as sleeping on your arm can cause loss of feeling.
"Usually, you feel this familiar sensation after you've been putting pressure on part of your body -- sitting on a foot, sleeping on an arm, etc. When you apply this pressure for a prolonged period of time, you actually cut off communication from your brain to parts of your body. The pressure squeezes nerve pathways so that the nerves can't transmit electrochemical impulses properly. Nerve impulses carry sensation information from nerve endings in the body to the brain, as well as instructions from the brain to the parts of the body. When you interfere with this transfer by squeezing the nerve pathways, you don't have full feeling in that body part, and your brain has trouble telling the body part what to do."
What address shall I mail my medical diagnostic bill to?
"Usually, you feel this familiar sensation after you've been putting pressure on part of your body -- sitting on a foot, sleeping on an arm, etc. When you apply this pressure for a prolonged period of time, you actually cut off communication from your brain to parts of your body. The pressure squeezes nerve pathways so that the nerves can't transmit electrochemical impulses properly. Nerve impulses carry sensation information from nerve endings in the body to the brain, as well as instructions from the brain to the parts of the body. When you interfere with this transfer by squeezing the nerve pathways, you don't have full feeling in that body part, and your brain has trouble telling the body part what to do."
What address shall I mail my medical diagnostic bill to?
