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hip pain from sleeping on side

amrokeamroke member
in October 2012 Moms
Anyone have any ideas for easing hip pain at night?  I have been using a snoogle and keep it between my legs, but it's not helping.  I am planning to try sleeping on top of a folded up comforter tonight to try to make the bed softer.  I've read that memory foam toppers can help, but that's a lot of money to spend if it might not do anything! 
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Re: hip pain from sleeping on side

  • Mrs_LadyMrs_Lady member

    just pillows and moving a bit...sadly i don;t feel any one position or solution works for all night sleeping....body's way of prepping you perhaps for baby feeding:)

    i get excited when I can sleep for 3 hours straight without feeling uncomfortable or having to pee

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  • mavgirl_73mavgirl_73 member
    Softer is not going to ease pain. I have horrific hip pain on my left side. I sleep with an intricate network of pillows and usually on my left hip. Moving around a bit will help too. It's all part of the greatness of late 3rd tri :/

     

     

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  • ajp03dajp03d member
    We have a mattress topper on the bed and I've had to move to the couch for the past 2 weeks because it's more firm. Softer is actually more painful for me because it doesn't give me any support. Over the past week I've been propping my pillows up and keeping my body pillow on one side. So I'm sleeping in an almost sitting up position and can still turn on my side a little bit. But it keeps the pressure off my hips.
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  • alyson686alyson686 member
    The best solution I've found is my memory foam body pillow, and unfortunately it was pretty expensive. I already had a memory foam mattress, which although expensive, was the best purchase I've ever made.
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  • lauracorolauracoro
    I bought a foam topper and it did help me! But the down side is that the foam topper makes it even more difficult than it was already to turn in bed. But the topper has reduced my hip pain so I'm keeping it on even thought rolling over is quite a workout with it.

    Eta I have a memory foam topper over a slightly firm mattress
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  • k10wolfek10wolfe member
    You could try a heating pad. I've used one when my hips get bad and it helps some.
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  • BronzeMamaBronzeMama

    Unless your doctor specifically told you not to, you can sleep on your back  - just make sure you're not FLAT on your back. There's only a few specific cases where back sleeping while pregnant is a problem. If you have one of those cases, then you'll have to endure, I suppose. My hips hurt too much for side sleeping, so I actually sleep on my back, on my couch, leaned up against the arm rest. I'm not sitting up, but i'm at a very nice incline, and i usually wake up half turned to the left or the right. I've started sleeping 5 hours at a time since I moved to the couch and started sleeping a bit on an incline.

    my bed is actually too flat for me right now, so I stopped trying to sleep there. 

    the hip pain went away after a few nights of back sleeping, btw. so as long as I do one night one and one night off, i'm not having any problems.


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  • hailyfhailyf
    what has worked best for me: pillow between the knees, pillow in front, pillow behind me (so 4 pillows total) so that I can be on my side but kind of lean back while I am on my hips so they are not "stacked"
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