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Apparently I did last night. I have one heck of a muscle knot just about my right shoulder blade, and I can hardly move my head without pain

So I wanna know, do you ever find yourself in agony due to your sleeping position?

Not agony as such but a pain at the top of my left arm - painful to touch like it's bruised but there is no bruise there.

I remember once sleeping in a soft bed and waking up in the middle of the night unable to feel my right arm. I was lying on my back and I could feel no sensation in my right arm whatsoever. I reached across with my left arm to find out what was wrong and my right arm was missing! I quickly found out that it was behind my head, but I'll never forget the initial shock.

I don't find myself in agony, but my partner does, because I sleep diagonally across the bed, convinced that I'm lying quite straight

man you should try sleeping on your front or side as a breastfeeding Mum. Your boobs set hard as rock in whatever squashed position they're in - ow!

I'm a front sleeper and I try to explain to my b/f about the "sleeping on two boulders" thing every month. He thinks they are soft and squashy all the time but I am sure that for one week out of four they are made of granite. (.v.)

I keep waking up with a stiff shoulder - I'm sure it's to do with how I lie in my sleep. It's not my imagination, my right deltoid muscle feels hard to the touch, although it is in spasm. I can ease it off sometimes by pressing firmly into the middle of the muscle with my fingertips. It's annoying, though - when it stiffens up badly it hurts to turn my head.

Oops - that should read 'as though it is in spasm', not 'although'. I must learn to use the preview button.

A friend of mine once told me that she woke up in the middle of the night with her arm numb from having slept on it. However, she didn't know this, and happened to roll over in bed. The numb arm moved around and brushed by her head, and she thought someone was trying to molest her or something.

I would give a lot to have been there with a video camera to catch her reaction.

Wampus

I try deperately not to sleep on my front but when you are asleep, you turn over anyway.

Not so much a boob thing with me. I hyperextend my knees giving me goosed knees. Even though I sleep on my front, I still use pillows. I basically sleep like a banana! Not suprisingly, I have a bad back aswell.

Sigh........

NR Doll

I once had a bad back for nearly a week from sleeping awkwardly and I do have the habbit of drawing myself up into a ball whilst sleeping; despite my likeing large beds and I've been getting cramp/spasm in my abdominal muscles recently some mornings, though I can't say I've been knowingly sleeping in any kind of different position..... I could think Of one position I'd like to sleep in, but I won't mention that 'ere I thnk I need a new matress might have to get one tomorrow just for fun I used to get told off by an ex girlfriend for my habbit of crawling ontop of people in my sleep I think I just used to crawl as close as possible to anything warm in the bed frightened the hell out of her a couple of times

Invariably, fetal. Fetal, and cuddled up into the side of the couch. (I don't know why I bothered to get a bed)

I also sleep crosswise, and try and burrow under Bruce in my sleep. Annoys the hell out of him. I keep trying to tell him it's because he makes be feel safe, but it doesn't work

I sleep with my arms above my head, ready in case an burglar comes into the bedroom, so that I can show him that I'm not armed...

I sleep on my side, cuddling a pillow, facing the edge of the bed. This annoys my bf because he wants me to face him and cuddle him. It's just not comfortable.

Generally on my side or face down. I occasionally get very slight back pain from sleeping in a bad position in bed, but I actually think I probably sleep better and more comfortably in a sleeping bag on a camping mat in a tent than in a regular bed.
However, that may be because I'm usually either very physically tired when I'm in a tent, or because I can always blame any pain the day after on whatever I was doing the day before, (or because it's usually cold when/where I'm camping, even in the summer).

I love tents. I'll just leave it at that.

*offers massage to potholer*

I tend to curl up into a kind of semi-foetal position on one side or the other. Makes me feel safer!

Sometimes I must sleep wierd though, because occasionally I wake up with the most astoundingly painful cramp in one or the other thigh muscles. That's the kind of cramp that still hurts the next morning after I've spent ages getting rid of it before going back to sleep, like a big bruise or a muscle strain.

I have also occasionally been known to wake up without any sensation in a part of my body - an arm, a leg, once a random bit of the chest area. Very odd!

Both times when I was pregnant I had the interesting experience of not being able to fully stretch out my legs in bed, because invariably when I did, I would get the *worst* Charlie horse. This sucked mightily, because there isn't much to beat a good cat-like stretch in bed. Even more interesting was that the phenomenon disappeared upon childbirth; I know, because I experimentally stretched after the epidural (god bless epidurals) wore off, and there was no crippling pain. Just between that and the divine experience of being able to sleep on my tummy again, childbirth was a great experience (lol ..the release out of a condition you got your own self into

I used to sometimes after having gotten home from school, just sit on the edge of my bed and then lean backwards. And then fall asleep for about half an hour. The thing was I never bothered to remove the things on my bed first. So when I woke up my back would hurt a bit, after having been laying on a few stacks of books or a twisted up duvet or whatever was there that day. I think if I tried to sleep a whole night that way, I'd never be able to get out of bed in the morning.