6. Weakness
Again, think back to that sensation where you wake in the night to find your arm completely dead. Scary, isn’t it? Often you aren’t at your most logical and reasonable at this time and thus you might find yourself worrying that you’ve lost the limb forever!
Part of what makes this so unsettling is the fact that you might also seem to have lost some of the movement in your arms and they can end up flopping around as you turn from side to side!
This can also happen to a lesser extent when you are struggling with sciatica. Here, the signal going the other way – from your motor cortex to your legs – is also scrambled. This prevents proper muscle fiber recruitment and all but neuters your precise control. You can end either with your leg flailing and disagreeing with what you want to do, or with it just being weaker than usual and less able to perform specific tasks. Stairs might be more of a struggle for instance.
Note that it is very unlikely you will have lost all movement or for this to be incredibly noticeable.