what if my foot has been asleep for a week?
81802
Pinched nerve possibly, go to the doctors to be sure.
857007
Sounds like poor circulation.  You might want to ask your doctor.  I think poor circulation in your feet can be a sign a diabetes.
251312
Could be poor circulation or just a random ache.  You may have pinched a nerve when you slept.  It should go away soon, so don't worry about it.
417212
put your weight on one of your feet and let the other foot rest, switch it after a while, for example at every minute.
752537
your doctor's right - I'll bet you haven't been resting!!!
332073
This is caused by damage to the blood vessels, as feet are the furthest away from the heart it is hard enough anyway, without blood vessels being damaged.  If blood isn't circulating it's like your feet have gone dead or asleep and you wont feel much.  Of course this can be a problem if the feet are starved of a blood supply for too long!
332434
Over time your feet will form bunions and your back will have permanent damage. Can you picture how attractive you will look with those ailments? If I where you, I would cut back the number of days that you wear heals and gradually stop wearing them but for three hours or less when you do. Anymore than that and you'll pay with your health.
606033
Sounds like shin splints.  You probably don't need to go to the doctor.  You should stay off your feet awhile, and use a cortisone cream on them.  Take an anti-inflammatory med, unless you have any medical condition which would make that unwise.  If they don't feel better with 3-4 days of relative ease, go to the doctor.  \nIf you're going to play softball and tennis regularly, make sure you're wearing good shoes that are designed for those specific uses, and stretch beforehand.
57588
There is really no sure way to know, but a number of sleep walkers never return to their beds. So if your are in it when you wake up, chances are you haven't sleep walked. If you still have a sneaky suspicion, go to a sleep clinic!!! You could hurt yourself.
695717
About 6 weeks if you stay off of it.  Have you been to a doctor?  You need an orthopedic boot.
923423
you can try to keep your feet elevated when you have time to sit or lay. you can soak them in warm water or try massage when possible, good luck
1046365
Try soaking your feet in cold water just before you go to bed, or you could try spraying them with something like Magicool
334773
u should try 'Curel daily moisture therapy lotion, Ultra Healing.' rub a lot of it on your feet and then wear some socks over night. when u wake up hey should b nice and soft.
155675
This is definitely a strange sensation -- you get up out of your seat, and all you feel from one foot is an uncomfortable tingling. Or you wake up in the middle of the night, and you can't move your arm at all. And then, as your body part "wakes up," the strange tingling intensifies. Just what is going on here?\n\nUsually, you feel this familiar sensation after you've been putting pressure on part of our 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.\n\nThis pressure can also squeeze arteries, stopping them from carrying nutrients to body cells. Without these nutrients, the nerve cells may behave abnormally, which can further interfere with communicating bodily sensations.\n\nDue to both these factors, the information transmitted from the body part becomes somewhat jumbled, and the brain receives strange messages. Some nerve cells don't transmit any information and others start sending impulses erratically. This causes you to feel a strange tingling sensation, which actually serves an important function. Your foot falling asleep for 10 minutes doesn't pose any health threat, but if you were to cut off circulation for an extended period of time -- several hours -- you could suffer serious nerve damage. The initial tingling sensation tells you that you might want to readjust your position.\n\nOnce you do move your foot, stretch your legs, or roll over off your arm, the nerve impulses begin to flow properly again. You don't regain feeling right away, however. There is a certain amount of re-adjustment time before the nerves transmit impulses correctly again. This increases the intensity of the tingling, causing the familiar "pins and needles" sensation.\n\nIf this has ever happened to you, you know that there are actually a few distinct sensations you go through as your body part "wakes up." The tingling may be followed by a more uncomfortable burning sensation, before your body part finally returns to normal. This happens because the nerves in your body are made up of separate long nerve cells that carry different sorts of impulses. These nerve fibers have different surrounding structures. Some nerve fibers have thicker "insulation" around them and so take longer to begin transmitting impulses properly after they've been squeezed. The fibers that transmit pain and temperature information are relatively thin, so you feel the tingling situations pretty quickly. Motor control fibers are thinner than the ones carrying touch information, so you can move the body part before you've regained complete feeling in it. Eventually, all the nerve fibers return to normal and you regain full use of the sleeping body part.
1184906
It may be the weight.  Sometimes in the morning, when I first wake up, it's kinda painful to walk for the first few minutes.  Like the blood has to get flowing when a limb falls asleep.  Also, having high arches can really affect how long you can stand in one place.  I can walk all day, but there is no way I can work somewhere where I'm just standing around.  It hurts too much.  I really recommend going to a podiatrist.  They will check your arches and if worse comes to worse, do x-rays.  Hope it gets better.
1141054
Use a heating pad and make up a cotton compress with Castor oil (put a plastic bag around your whole foot, because it can get messy.) It should take about two weeks if you apply it nightly for 30 minutes. If that doesn't work, see a doctor.
268961
I would see a Neurologist for this issue.  Or you may have athletes foot.  See a doctor.