Chronic Pain Support Group

Physicians and professionalsdefine pain as chronic if it lasts longer than three to six months and is persistent. It's distinct from acute pain that is a direct result of injury or trauma. This support group is dedicated to those suffering from chronic pain. Discuss treatments that have worked for you, find advice for your specific experience, and find support. You're not...

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sleeping situations

honor435
honor435
Ok, I may have brought this up before? Do any of us cp sufferers sleep in the same bed all night?
My hubby snores and has restless leg, so I start out in our bed, but either the pain or his situations, I have to sleep elsewhere. He says I just dont want to sleep with him! I asked him if he would wear a breathrite, he said no, he said, why dont you wear earplugs, I said I will trade off with you, no response.
Anyways, I told him that the majority of pain people dont stay in the same bed all night, I hope I wasnt lying!
deleted_user
deleted_user
NObody on this planet snored louder than my husband! The only way I could sleep in the same bed with him was with his back towards the wall. Then he deleveloped restless legs so bad that they had him jerking off the bed every other second all night long...so sometimes he had to go sleep in the living room and sometimes I did because I am a world champion flopper and flipped and flopped at least fifty billion times per night.
I think the key to the sleeping/snoring/pain thing is tolerance, lots of humor...and other beds available...and then meeting back up in the middle when one is a bit more...erm...awake...lol...
deleted_user
deleted_user
I sleep in my bed NOW. Last year after all my pain started I went out and bought a new bed. My husband and I hadn't slept together in 2 1/2 years, he was banished to the basement for the crime of snoring so loud that the earplugs I use to wear were not working anymore and he was literally vibrating the bed (not always a bad thing). Also kicking him, hitting him and smothering him with his pillow stopped having giving me the results I wanted and my foot was getting tired of kicking him.

So after we spent $3,000+ on a bed that he wasn't allowed to sleep in did he finally decide to take my advice and so get a sleep study. Turns out he has 2 forms of sleep apena, the first is where he stops breathing (nothing to do with me smothering him with the pillow). He also has a form of sleep apena where not only does he stop breathing (again without my help) but his brain does not register that he's not breathing in order to wake him up. He would have either choked to death or had a heart attack in the near future. He has to sleep with a Bi-pap machine, little different from the C-pap. He's able to sleep with me and I get this pleasant white noise from his machine. And if he pisses me off I can just crimp his hose and cut off the air while he's sleeping just for a second to show him who the real boss is in the house. LOL just kidding (maybe)

So all of you with snoring spouses, send them to a sleep study and get a new bed! :)