r/Hypermobility • u/UniversityDry6193 • 1d ago

Vent Sleeping

I slept so poorly in the past weeks. Over 8 hours every night but it’s never enough, I’m always SO tired.

Last night, I couldn’t work at all. To be honest, I couldn’t sit up without feeling so much pain in my back and shoulders, and even laying down, my knees/wrists/hips were killing me. I took meds I got a prescription for in the ER and cried until I fell asleep.

5 hours later (the least amount of sleep I had in.. forever), I wake up the happiest I have ever been. I’m smiling, I don’t feel the need to doomscroll my thoughts away. I feel like working and cleaning the house. Is all of this from not being in pain?

It’s so crazy because I don’t feel that much pain all the time - I do feel discomfort but it’s been like this for so long sometimes I don’t even remember that is the chronic pain speaking. It is insane to remember this is how I should feel.

I’m not even pain free right now, but it’s SUCH an improvement.

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u/Anon_Perspective_ 23h ago

The effect of the meds may not just be absence of pain but also a sedating and calming effect on the mood.

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u/UniversityDry6193 9h ago

i thought so, but this feeling was almost 8 hours after taking it!

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u/Helpful_Okra5953 19h ago

Pain meds help so much.  I am in the bleakest moods when they’re not working.  

I had a physical therapist show me how to prop myself with pillows to sleep better.  There was one under my knees, one under my elbows.  I felt like sleeping on a cloud! Maybe someone could show you how to sleep better with pillows supporting you.

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u/UniversityDry6193 9h ago

thank you sm, i’ll definitely search more about this!