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Series: Is This Normal?

sleeping on the couch can cause the pins and needles feeling
Falling asleep in an awkward position can cause an uncomfortable but harmless pins and needles feeling.

Sleepwalking, warts, heart flutters and pins and needles: Sometimes our bodies do things that we think might be a sign of a serious problem but it turns out to be nothing. But these things can also be warning signals of illness. In our “Is This Normal” series, we ask the experts to find out which of these weird things are worth worrying about.

 

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