I have gained about 4st in the last 3 years. It went on incredibly quickly when I became critically ill and was diagnosed with a life threatening condition. My lifestyle has changed considerably compared to my life before my illness, I am a lot less active and the medication I’m on attributes weight gain as a side effect 🤦🏼♀️. My weight is now steady and I weigh around 13st 9, and I think I’m a size 16-18 (although I avoid shopping for clothes now and wear lots of stretchy clothes, so in all honestly, I couldn’t be sure of my actual clothes size!)
I’ve noticed over the last few months, that I wake a number of times in the night to move position and find I have pain where I am lying. So if I’ve been sleeping on my stomach, I have pain in my abdomen, it feels like my organs are being crushed. Or if I’m sleeping on my side, my arm will ache and I have to get up slowly from the position. I don’t get pain or discomfort when I sleep on my back.
I am wondering whether this is normal for someone over weight to experience? Or whether I should be concerned. I tend to dismiss and down play symptoms when I’m unwell, hence why I lived with symptoms of my life changing illness for 10 years before it reached the point where it nearly took my life overnight. I don’t know why I do, but I do. Now I’m lying here, getting a bit worried that something more sinister could be going on. I know that no one can tell me that other then a Dr but I won’t be able to see a Dr until the end of the month. But if this is something larger people do tend to experience, it will help put my mind at ease.