How do you sleep at night?
No, seriously...how do you sleep? I am having a very hard time getting comfortable enough to sleep lately.
I never thought I'd be in pain because of my protruding bones, but here I am. Life is strange sometimes.
I've been sleeping in a twisted manner that is hurting my back, and I'm having major issues with that, so I need to stop. I try to lie on my side and my knees knock together. So I put a pillow between them, but then my hip bones and ribs start to hurt. So I roll over onto my back with a pillow under my knees, but then my tailbone hurts.
Laying on my back seems to be the best option so far, and it's great that I no longer snore like crazy when I do so and send my poor BF off to sleep on the couch. But I'm just curious how you all sleep. What position seems to be best for you?
Lindsay ~ 5'4" ~ HW (5/6/13): 280 ~ SW (5/17/13): 273 ~ CW: 140
Losses by month: pre-op: -8 M1: -18 M2: -12 M3: -13 M4: -9 M5: -10 M6: -12 M7: -14 M8: -12 M9: -2 M10: -8 M11: -9 M12: -2 M13: -6 M14: -7
Last time I was out shopping I walked by a display of those memory foam toppers and thought about that! Probably worth a try!
Lindsay ~ 5'4" ~ HW (5/6/13): 280 ~ SW (5/17/13): 273 ~ CW: 140
Losses by month: pre-op: -8 M1: -18 M2: -12 M3: -13 M4: -9 M5: -10 M6: -12 M7: -14 M8: -12 M9: -2 M10: -8 M11: -9 M12: -2 M13: -6 M14: -7
I sleep on my side and it's the only way I can sleep. After plastics, the doctor wanted me to sleep on my back but that was simply impossible. You really do need to find a comfortable position as sleep is a huge part of weight loss and weight management. Maybe your bed or pillow needs to be changed? It takes me a long while to find just the right pillow (and the ones I like are of course ridiculously expensive, but they get me what I need and good sleep is worth anything). I get my pillows from the Duxiana and their beds are the only beds that really work for me. Makes traveling less fun, but it is what it is.
I am still doing horribly in the sleep department (we talked about that a long time ago). Although I just set a goal for myself of no more snooze button and I think that will help.
That is a great point about pillows. It's definitely time to buy a new pillow.
Lindsay ~ 5'4" ~ HW (5/6/13): 280 ~ SW (5/17/13): 273 ~ CW: 140
Losses by month: pre-op: -8 M1: -18 M2: -12 M3: -13 M4: -9 M5: -10 M6: -12 M7: -14 M8: -12 M9: -2 M10: -8 M11: -9 M12: -2 M13: -6 M14: -7
Lindsay - I have some of the same issues. I have a Sleep Number bed and - although I didn't care for it in the beginning - I really like it now because I can adjust the softness of the bed. When I was pre-op my sleep number was 45 or so, now I'm down to 30. I still have to sleep with a pillow in between my knees or lay on my back with a little pillow under my knees.
Crazy stuff, huh?
Tracy 5'3" HW: 235 SW: 218 CW: 132 M1: -22 M2: -13 M3: -12 M4: -9 M5: -8 M6: -10 M7: -4
Goal reached in 7 months and 1 week!
Lower Body Lift w/Dr. Barnthouse 7-8-15
It's a trip for sure! Especially since I feel like I still have plenty of fat left on my body (I am wearing size 14 pants still, for crying out loud).
I was just telling the BF that I'd love to get a Sleep Number bed someday.
Lindsay ~ 5'4" ~ HW (5/6/13): 280 ~ SW (5/17/13): 273 ~ CW: 140
Losses by month: pre-op: -8 M1: -18 M2: -12 M3: -13 M4: -9 M5: -10 M6: -12 M7: -14 M8: -12 M9: -2 M10: -8 M11: -9 M12: -2 M13: -6 M14: -7
Just an FYI on the Sleep Number bed - go for as big of one as you can afford (I wish we had gotten king-size) and as high-end as you can afford. It makes a BIG difference. And it takes a few weeks to get adjusted, for sure.
Tracy 5'3" HW: 235 SW: 218 CW: 132 M1: -22 M2: -13 M3: -12 M4: -9 M5: -8 M6: -10 M7: -4
Goal reached in 7 months and 1 week!
Lower Body Lift w/Dr. Barnthouse 7-8-15
Thanks for the tip! Yeah, it will be awhile before I can afford one, unfortunately. Paying on lots of medical bills, BF starts school soon, and so on... Must do some long range planning to afford one of these things...
Lindsay ~ 5'4" ~ HW (5/6/13): 280 ~ SW (5/17/13): 273 ~ CW: 140
Losses by month: pre-op: -8 M1: -18 M2: -12 M3: -13 M4: -9 M5: -10 M6: -12 M7: -14 M8: -12 M9: -2 M10: -8 M11: -9 M12: -2 M13: -6 M14: -7
OMG! I'm also having the same problem I actually said to my hubby this morning..I feel like Goldilocks....this beds to hard...
he said no your just bones now..LOL!!...all I can say is thank God I have to get up 2-3 times a nite to pee
b/c it gives me a chance to quell the ache in my bones, it's unbelievable to me that my bones ache
cause there's no more padding, I've never heard of it...that being said..
I wouldn't change these aches for anything..I guess these are our "new" aches
to replace the old aches and pains we had at our heavier weight!!!
as for sleep positions I'm a side sleeper was a stomach sleeper till my pregnancies, now the stomach doesn't feel right..
I flip and flop from side to side when the aches start, and I've actually woken up on my back
which is weird since I've never been a back sleeper, but I also realize I have no aches on my back...
I'm also going to look into a memory foam or pillow top..but only a twin
( the beds gonna look lopsided and weird but no one sees it anyway)
b/c the hubby although he lost 110 w/VSG and is having the same tailbone issues as me
( that can be another thread LOL) isn't having sleeping problems..
as a matter of fact he used to ROCK THE HOUSE snoring..now I check him cause he sleeps like the dead!
