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I am a side sleeper and my back is killing me from being in the recliner and in bed. I need to start moving more, I know! Just curious, though, when it was comfortable for others to sleep on their sides?

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I slept on my side the entire time was in the hospital and every night since. I'm still surprised by that but so pleased.

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It was 7 or 8 days before I could sleep on my side.

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I was in the hospital one night. Started sleeping on my side the 1st night I was home.

It was a b***h getting in and out of bed the 1st few days from the soreness from the incisions.

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About 5 days

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I slept on my side from night 1. Try putting a pillow beneath your stomach to support it.

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I was able to lay on my right side night 1 but not me left until around night 9. I am a left side sleeper so once I was able to get on that side, I slept like a big ole baby!!

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It took me 2 weeks before I could sleep on my side without feeling like I was twisting something. The first week I slept sitting up on the couch with my feet on the ottoman.

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I haven't been sleeved yet but I had a c section and my gallbladder removed in the same month. I used a pillow wedge I purchased at babies r us. Helped a ton for support!!! Just lay on your favorite side and tuck that sucker in between the bed and your stomach. It wasn't very expensive and came in a neutral color. I guess its used for when pregnant bellies get too heavy but using it after two surgeries worked just as well for me

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Thanks all of you. I will keep trying. Thanks for the suggestions of a pillow between the bed and tummy, maybe that will help me sooner rather than later!

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I can easily sleep on my right side. Not so much on the left side. I tested it by putting a pillow behind one of my sides And it lifted that side up enough that I wasn't flat on my back or straight on my side. I was sleeved Tuesday.

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I was just sleeved yesterday so still in the hospital. I've layed on my side the whole time. Even on my tummy.

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About a full 2 weeks because the pain was one sided then at times both sides. I used to get intense pains on my incisions for no reason at all.

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Probably 5-7 days out, but I also put a pillow between my legs. It seems to help keep my body more aligned and hurts less.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

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