My back hurts when I sleep on my back. No matter what mattress, pillow, blanket or so forth I have. When I sleep on my sides, numbness. And my arm hurts. I try and get comfortable but I just cant stay comfortable for too long. This is the only consistent, pain free and comfortable position that puts me to sleep and keeps me asleep.
2 solutions Either ditch your pillow and try. if it doesnt work try harder mattresses. Or get a really big pillow, rotate it 90 degrees to make it long. Make sure you position it in a way that it starts from the top of you back, up through the traps/neck then head Good luck!
2:00 that's me!! And.. I have low back pain.😭 Unfortunately it's sooo hard to change. I even managed to keep that sleeping position when 8 month pregnant, creating a U shape with pillows to "park" my belly in the middle 😂😂
I have a bit of an occipital neuralgia that makes it very uncomfortable to sleep on my back. Actually, I have never, not once, been able to fall asleep on my back in years of trying to convert. The only circumstance under which I can fall asleep on my back is if I tilt my head to the side and raise one arm up just like my stomach sleeping position...lol. For the past 4 months I have been forcing myself to side sleep, but I wake up in pain or with a numb arm. I think I'm just going to go back to stomach sleeping. On my sleep tracker, it shows I am asleep for 6 out of the 8 hours I'm in bed when on my side, but 7 hours and 54 minutes if I'm on my stomach.
I'm a massage therapist. i think that since it's difficult for many people to change their most comfortable sleeping position I say a person should change positions regularly while sleeping instead of believing one is bad and the other is good. Sleeping in all positions and doing your best to keep your neck and arms straight in all. I prop my head between my hands or lay my forehead on my hands to straighten my neck. Can't hold that for long though. Also I thought stomach sleeping was good cause it's a slight backbend which I thought is good for your disks and spine since during the day most of us flex the spine and extension is needed to bring balance
Great info! Stomach sleeping is great if it's done in a massage or chiro table with Spinal alignment. Not good in bed due to neck and spine twisting to turn head for breathing ability! Once you do it enough you body says ohhh I can only sleep with my head turned to r or l and then subsequent injury, I nerve tension and muscular imbalances persist and prolong.
Better question is what do we need to do to the conscious and subconscious mind to relieve stress, trauma and unprocessed emotions to create true internal safety and security instead of weighing the body down with external stimuli. It isn't a bad thing to rely on weighted blankets as they provide comfort but I like to try and dive deeper to release stress and trauma though movement and mindfulness! 💪🧠
I started sleeping on my stomach when I had really bad anxiety because the pressure on my chest from my pillow felt comforting. Much better now after 5 years but now I still sleep on my stomach. I have pretty severe back and neck pain.
What kind of sleeper am I considered? if I sleep with my stomach facing down with my right leg lunged high up towards my chest and my other leg stretched completely out and my left arm is under my pillow and my right arm is facing outwards pointing right. It’s hard cuz I don’t know weather to consider myself stomach or side sleeper and to find an according mattress. Thanks in advance
Stomach sleeper, matress won't make much difference, begin lying flat on your back for 5-10 minutes/night practicing and training your body to be comfortable on back. If you sleep in that position nightly for hours upon hours your muscles can develop imbalance and asymmetry causing issues throughout the body.
You didn’t talk about sleeping on your stomach!! I cam here specifically for that and it was all about side sleeping. My lower back hurts so much and I think it’s because I stood in the same position for a long time the ither day and then slept on my stomach. It’s all concentrated on the left side of my lower back right by the spine. What can I d
I only watched this to say.....I will still sleep on my stomach I’ve tried sleeping on my back before I was a back sleeper for a long time then my back arms legs would start hurting so I had to switch to stomach and I’m not going back! I can ONLY sleep on my stomach if I sleep on my side it’s a half side half stomach Back sleeping hurts my body and when I wake up my body feels like this 💃🦗🦟💃🦗🦟 When I sleep on my side my arms go numb it’s uncomfortable my arms are in they way I just can’t Stomach sleeping makes me comfy and I can sleep easier I fell asleep on my back last night I didn’t even know but my back HURTS now!
Hmm I would not rx long term but happy that you are trying different positions... Many things like mattress firmness, pillow material and position can effect your pain levels. Definitely include daily stretching and exercising in your awake time protocol and numbness /tingling can go away!
If you work out everyday, wouldn’t that activation restimulate and reactivate your muscles and spine so as to mitigate any “imbalances” your sleep posture might bring on? I’ve been a stomach and side sleeper.. no issues.
Many daily postures and habits lead to those conditions, there is no 1 event but instead the way you hold yourself and mold yourself on a day to day basis.
When i sleep on my stomach i always dreaming and sometime sleep paralysis happen, rarely dreaming using other position, maybe because when i sleep on stomach im not relax?
my problem sleep on my stomach but with my arm under my stomach and next day neck and shoulder pain just hard to sleep on my back can't fall asleep hard if you're body and mind us to doing something a certain way
I think stomach sleeping has caused massive amounts of tightness on my sternocleidomastoid muscles. My neck is so tight and often almost feels like it’s so tight it’s restricting my breathing. I have some pain from the below my ear to my sternum. A physical therapist told me those muscles on my neck are really tight and gave me some exercises to do but no explanation of why they are so tight and how to prevent stressing my neck. I have been sleeping on my stomach for a while and my wife says that she can’t figure out how I sleep with my neck like that. That’s when it clicked. So now I am wondering how to prevent sleeping on my stomach. My idea right now is to sow a tennis ball on to the front of my shirt so if I roll over to my stomach I immediately wake up and go back to my side. Any advice?
Great question! Sleeping is best on back but difficult to train...I'm a side sleeper personally and get most rest when I match everything up before falling asleep, meaning hands, knees, feet touching together creating balance and harmony within the body. If you like your back then by all means go to it! Low pillows are good..I like something simple like the tricore which can be found on amazon!
