How do you sleep through pain?

[x_emily_x]

Any ideas at all would be appreciated x

[Anastasia17]

That's a tough one! and there is not one solution fits it all. Here are just a few humble suggestions: Paracetamol (without caffeine)/painkillers, hot water bottle (the fluffy one that won't burn your skin), find a comfortable position, pillows in between the legs, breathing exercises to focus on something else as well, but it will relax the body, put some music on via headphones, or also meditation relaxing music also works well. Anything that makes us and keeps us 'zen'/relax as endo makes us very tense with pain, anxiety, fear. During the day, I would try to watch a relaxing and feel good movie once I had found a comfortable position, with a hot water bottle, because watching a relaxing and feel good film distracts from the pain. Hope this helps. x

[x_emily_x in reply to Anastasia17]

Thank you. Thats mostly what I do but its still nice to hear it affirmed, makes me feel like I'm doing my best lolSometimes there's just pain and thrown off sleep patterns and nothing we can do about it 🤷‍♀️

[AllthatGlitters]

I have had many a time trying to sleep whilst in severe pain as at least when we are asleep we aren’t aware of it. I would usually have to take tramadol which use to put me into a deep sleep, my body must be use to that now as it makes me the opposite, so alert. So now I take naproxen and have a hot shower, a hot water bottle for my feet and a mini hot water bottle for my stomach which I tuck into the top of my pants. A hot cup of tea and I also use a pillow spray which seems to help me sleep.

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[x_emily_x in reply to AllthatGlitters]

Those are all such good ideas and sound pretty lush tbh. Instead of me rolling around wishing it'd stop

[Cocoacupid]

this is tough em I find I hardly sleep 😴 even with my pain relief and more often than not the pain keeps me awake and I won’t sleep very much at all and it’s a pain when that happens as most often the nights I don’t sleep well I’m at work early the next day xxx

[x_emily_x in reply to Cocoacupid]

Yeah sometimes it wakes you up as well, there's no easy way around it really :/ I don't work anymore as it was all too much and I couldn't hold down a job. I've made a promise to myself that no matter how much I sleep, don't sleep or how much my routine gets thrown off I always wake up at 5.30am which really helps me in a lot of ways. But if you work its just a nightmare. I was so exhausted my last year of work I'd come home in tears everyday. I hope you better manage than I did, we all have different strengths. That wasn't one of mine 😅