Sleeping

[BengalHawk62]

(05-02-2021, 09:25 AM)HarleyDog Wrote: I was taking zquill to help me sleep. My Dr. at the VA prescribed me melatonin instead. I take two 3mg tables about 20 minutes before bedtime and I’m out like a lite. However, sleep aids arejust to help you get to sleep. If your in pain or discomfort, you will be dealing with it after a few hours.

I have a lot of back and neck pain. I sleep on my side and use a pillow to straddle. Takes the weight off the back. If I sleep on my back, simply crossing my right leg over left relieves lower back pain as well (but not vice versa for some reason). Also, if sleeping on back, one could try to elevate both legs above the heart. That also takes pressure off lower back.

As for shoulder pain? Man, I get this a lot and I still haven’t figured out how to prevent. Although, George is right about rotating your mattress as this seems to help, but for me does not totally eliminate.

I looked into getting a sleep number bed. Man those things are super expensive. Yet, I might end up getting one anyway because you really can’t put a price tag on getting a good nights sleep. 

On another note but unrelated. I had a sleep study done by VA two weeks ago. I was diagnosed with severe obstructive sleep apnea. Seems I stopped breathing on avg. 58.3 times per hour. I have an appointment tomorrow to get a Cpap, which I am, but am not looking forward too. It’s going to take quite a bit to get used to sleeping with that thing on. However, if it helps me sleep better, I’m all in.

Oh man, I got a cpap last year and I swear by it now. I was diagnosed the same as you with the whole sleep study thing. Got me a cpap and it took just a couple nights to get used to but I swear by it now. I can’t sleep without it. Once you get used to it, I’m sure you’ll like it too.


This whole shoulder pain thing sucks! I can’t find a comfortable position anywhere. Last night I came back out to sit in the chair and try to sleep in it. I was up well past midnight when the pain flare up finally died down enough I was able to get comfortable and sleep till 5ish when our youngest got up and wanted to watch cartoons this morning.