I despise sleeping on my back, but have since surgery. (Monday) When will it be safe??

Also, I am constantly thirsty...does that go away? Waking up with dry mouth!![emoji14]

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On 2/24/2018 at 4:28 PM, istytehcrawk said:

My surgery was on the 15th, and I've been sleeping on my back ever since because it was the only thing that didn't hurt. Now that I'm feeling less pain overall, the night before last I tested out every position I could think of, and each one made SOMETHING hurt. Then last night I was able to sleep kind of partway on my side/stomach for about two hours before it became too uncomfortable. I'm REALLY looking forward to being able to sleep on my stomach, because I hate sleeping on my back.

Update to this: I was able to sleep on my stomach most of the night, without pain, on March 5. I'd managed for a little while a couple nights before that.

I was told I could sleep on my stomach as soon as it was comfortable for me to do so. I started sleeping on my side in the hospital because I cannot sleep on my back.

Took me 8 days before I could sleep on my stomach, and that’s with some pain getting from back to stomach. For some reason none of the “hug a pillow” worked for me at all, including sneezing and side-sleeping, both hurt a whole lot.

I’m 11 days out now and pretty healed overall. Some ache/twinge stuff but not the sharp stabs mostly.