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When Could You Sleep On Your Stomach?

How long after surgery until you could sleep on your stomach again?

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  • I am a stomach sleeper so I was miserable when I couldn't! It took me several weeks. I started out using pillows to support my belly and kind of sleeping on my side/belly. I am about 5 weeks now and

  • ☠carolinagirl☠
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    well, we just had major surgery remember and they cut our tummies and insides. i had 5 incisions, so its bound to hurt a smidge . it hurt me when i bent (at waist/stomach) or stood up...it does get

  • amanda01331
    amanda01331

    i still can't sleep on my stomach and its been a month since i was banded..very sore..like a bruise to push on the port area

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i'm almost 3 weeks post op and still haven't. im scared to because i'm having port pain often. when i sleep on my side, it bothers me because it seems my belly flops to that side and moves the port area thus not feeling great. i'm always worried of messing it up. :-P

I could actually sleep on my stomach sooner than I could sleep on my left side (port side). I could sleep on my stomach about 3 days out and then my left side about 8 days. I was fine sleeping the first three nights and then really uncomfortable nights 4-7, so much so that I was getting up in the middle of the night to sleep in the recliner. Not sure why.

I ended up sleeping on my stomach a few days after surgery. I would go to bed on my back and wake up on my stomach with little pain.

I could only wish I could sleep on my stomach after surgery!! it took me about a month to do it comfortably. I think I started to roll more to my stomach with a pillow for support about 3 weeks. But one day all the uncomfortablness and pain was just gone. had no problems again until I was 20 weeks pregnant.

I am a stomach sleeper so I was miserable when I couldn't! It took me several weeks. I started out using pillows to support my belly and kind of sleeping on my side/belly. I am about 5 weeks now and can sleep any way I want!!:) Try a body pillow of another pillow on your side under your belly...kind of gave me the illusion I was on my belly I think.

My first problem was that I couldn't lay down at all. The first 2-3 nights, I was propped up on about 8 pillows. The gas pressure and shoulder pain was horrific. Once I could lay down, I took it easy and kept a pillow on one side and hubby on the other. I was probably about a week out when I woke up on my stomach for the first time. I fell asleep that way at about a week and a half.

Im 3 days post op and i can only lay on my right side or back supported by pillows on my side. Im too scared to try and lay on my left (port side) but man i cant wait till i can!! My right side is getting sore from constantly laying this way.

I rolled over to my right side in the recovery room.... And slept on my tummy that night. I think everyone is different. I think might depend on the amount of belly fat that a person has at surgery time, because the incision is so deep. I'm bigger in my butt and thighs than I am in my belly and I've noticed from other people I know personally that had larger bellies that had trouble sleeping on their side or tummy for weeks or months after surgery.

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I wish I could sleep on my stomach! My incisions hurt way too much! I can barely sleep on my back and I'm 10 days post op.

You will get there, it was probably I this month before I could sleep on my stomach again. I am a stomach sleeper so it sucked and my back always hurt. You will get there,even getting to sleep on your side will feel much better

Took me 4 days and iv never really been a tummy sleep for some reason i am now lol!

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I cannot sleep on my right or left side or on my stomach. If I try on my left I get a sharp sudden horrible pain? I had pains before in lower abdomen by left side of belly button. Also had a CT scan an nothing wrong. Getting annoyed about the sleeping, anyone heard of such pains before? I also have diverticulitus so I am always thinking it is that.

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