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How have you hurt yourself while you were sleeping?

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TribeD · 23/12/2022 08:47

Woke up this morning with a pain in my neck (not DD for a change)

I am assuming I've just slept in an odd position but I can't quite believe I'm in so much pain from being asleep.

What random injuries have you woken up with?

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wonkylegs · 23/12/2022 10:15

@Epilepsy we have a very comfy spare room for a reason. If I know he's stressed I tend to pre-empt it and sleep in there. We've been together over 20yrs so I now know what signs to look for.

GooseberryCinnamonYogurt · 23/12/2022 10:23

I hurt myself when sleepwalking

Ameanstreakamilewide · 23/12/2022 10:24

TribeD · 23/12/2022 08:47

Woke up this morning with a pain in my neck (not DD for a change)

I am assuming I've just slept in an odd position but I can't quite believe I'm in so much pain from being asleep.

What random injuries have you woken up with?

I had a seriously gammy shoulder (i was waiting for surgery at the time), and my husband was leaning on me in bed.

Which I always loathe...as he well knows, too. 🤨

And, as he moved over, he was kind of stuck to me, and he turned completely over and popped my shoulder and dislocated it.

Unpleasant in the extreme.

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GooseberryCinnamonYogurt · 23/12/2022 10:24

See my post here

Sleep walking www.mumsnet.com/Talk/general_health/4702715-sleep-walking?msgid=-4702715#-4702715

Swissnotswiss · 23/12/2022 10:26

My bed has an iron bedstead that regularly traps my feet in the night. I hate it.

Onnabugeisha · 23/12/2022 10:32

I’ve hurt myself sleep walking a few times.
No broken bones though. Freaky though waking up in various parts of the house and being unsure if it’s another dream or if I’m actually awake.

Dilbertian · 23/12/2022 10:41

Sometimes I fall asleep and raise one arm in my sleep. More than once I've woken myself up punching myself in the face as my arm falls.

Done this so many times! Grin

MumofSpud · 23/12/2022 10:46

Broke my rotator cuff

I was asleep, DD was in her cot next to the bed
I was having a nightmare that somebody standing in the doorway (I found her dummy on the floor after so I think the sound of that falling made it seem v real)

I leapt out of bed to jump on / attack the figure but as he wasn't there I landed with a thud on my shoulder

DH woke to find me in a heap on the floor in the hallway (I had done a long jump of 6 foot) but I had scrapped my knees on the way so they were bleeding so he was saying that I had bloody knees but I was saying that it was my shoulder.
As he was working early I had to call my mum to take me to a&e but she arrived in shock (!) so I had to make her a cup of sweet tea.
Longer story short - they mid read the x ray and did not see the break so said it was a torn muscle and I should keep moving it. After 6 weeks of growing pain and not being able to move it I went to the GP who got hold of the x ray and all hell broke loose!!

NeverDropYourMooncup · 23/12/2022 10:48

Dislocated (and put back) shoulders - the putting back one didn't just wake me up as I moved and clearly relaxed for the first time in a couple of days, it woke my then very new DP and two cats because 'it sounded like a gun had gone off in the bedroom', apparently.

Lots of mystery bruises on hands, arms, legs.

Excruciatingly painful neck - using a shaped pillow from IKEA stopped those along with doing some physio exercises to strengthen my neck (face down, try to lift arms, then arms individually, then head; very difficult at first, but once I'd increased strength and slept on the funny pillow for a while, I didn't start the day with an awful migraine anymore).

Black eye from having the great idea of moving the lamp above me and then knocking it down somehow overnight.

Few scratches to the face where one of the cats got frightened by something and ran up the bed once, then another time, one decided to try sleeping above the bed and fell off.

My worst one was being stamped in the head when DP had fallen asleep straight from a month of long shifts and too much Monster, in a weird position so I'd had to fit myself on the bed the wrong way round - by some miracle, I'd just moved a few seconds before he'd started dreaming so that he got my forehead instead of the bridge and tip of my nose. He wouldn't or couldn't wake up even with me shouting and shaking him - so when he opened his eyes in the morning after a lovely refreshing night's sleep, the first thing he saw was my face and the second was his life flashing before his eyes as I told him what had happened over the next twenty minutes or so.

After that, he finally started listening to my so called unreasonable 'no shoes upstairs and workboots at the very least come off the moment you walk in the front door' as he'd fallen asleep with a pair of steel toe caps on. Just as well it was only the cushioned heel and not the steel bit, really.

Oh, and he stopped drinking 4-6 Monsters a day - he foolishly thought about complaining that he had a headache from the caffeine withdrawals three days in, but The Look he got with a 'Oh, you have a headache, do you?' as the huge blue bruise spread across my forehead made him realise that this was not a time to mention anything less serious than an accidental limb amputation - and even then, it would have had to be a whole leg, as I really wouldn't have been that bothered if it were only from his knee down (unless perhaps there were also a horde of zombies coming up the stairs after setting the kitchen on fire).

Risky business, this sleeping, sometimes.

IAmDeborah · 23/12/2022 10:56

Sometimes I sort of chew the edge of my tongue? Really weird and then I can't eat or speak properly for a few days 🙄

BlessedBeTheFruitCake · 23/12/2022 11:01

I had to wear a wrist split for a month after waking up with my wrist bend backwards under my chin. It was red, swollen and really painful, I still get twinges even now.

IndieK1d · 23/12/2022 11:04

Used to have nocturnal seizures as a child. I managed to fall out of bed and headbutt the floor.

I've injured my neck while sleeping

TribeD · 23/12/2022 13:11

I'm obviously not pleased that you've all acquired sleep related injuries, but I'm glad I'm not the only one!

I regularly give myself a dead arm during the night, but I've never injured myself to this extent before. I've nabbed DD's heat up unicorn bean bag thing - it's helping a bit, except she keeps pinching it back because "it's so cold mummy"

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Springblossom2022 · 23/12/2022 13:15

Not quite an injury as such, but once I was dreaming that I was having a drink from my cup on my bedside table and woke to to the most disgusting taste in my mouth. I'd picked up the bottle of E45 on my bedside table and was drinking from it. Most vile experience of my life 😂

Epilepsy · 23/12/2022 13:20

My friend used to sleep walk and frequently ate food without being aware of it...one morning she came downstairs and there were teeth marks and bites out of the raw chicken breasts in her fridge Envy that's a sick face, definitely not envy Grin amazingly she didn't get ill!

tabulahrasa · 23/12/2022 13:25

Went to bed fine, woke up with a sore back, which turned into sciatica and then got worse and worse till I was admitted to hospital because I’d lost the function in one of my legs... I have bulging discs and a trapped nerve, I’m still in rehab with a physio and on very strong painkillers.

It’s been 16 months 😐

Bestcatmum · 23/12/2022 13:26

Took a very strong sleeping pill and woke up with a third degree burn from a faulty electric blanket.
It required hospital treatment.

GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut · 23/12/2022 13:30

I split my lip dropping my phone on my face when I fell asleep reading my book on it. Regularly drop my phone on my face, but that one really hurt!

DF fell down the stairs sleepwalking once.

TribeD · 23/12/2022 13:32

Bestcatmum · 23/12/2022 13:26

Took a very strong sleeping pill and woke up with a third degree burn from a faulty electric blanket.
It required hospital treatment.

😮 oh god! That must have been awful

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Watto1 · 23/12/2022 13:32

A colleague came into work with a badly split lip. His wife had managed to wallop him in the face whilst dreaming. It wouldn’t have been so bad but unfortunately her arm was in plaster at the time.

donttalkaboutbookclub · 23/12/2022 13:41

Cracked my tooth as I was clenching my teeth so hard all night (apparently).

Bridgi · 23/12/2022 13:59

I punched a wall once when I was a teenager and my bed was next to the wall.
Woke up with bleeding knuckles.
Was having a dream about a girl who was bullying me.

Elsiebear90 · 23/12/2022 14:03

Yes, I have vivid dreams which I act out, sometimes I wake up, but it’s like my dream continues so i’m half awake, I’m responding, but not acting normally and hallucinating. Sometimes I can remember what’s happened and other times I can’t and my wife has to tell me.

One time I was hallucinating thinking a demon was in the room and I jumped out of bed and ran into a fan, ended up with a few bruises, but thankfully nothing more severe.

Jackiewoo · 23/12/2022 14:07

I coughed in my sleep and half fell out of bed, bashing my tits on the bedside table a few nights ago. I now have an inch deep line of black/purple bruises across the top of both and on my upper arms. FFS.

Georgina125 · 23/12/2022 14:16

I stretched in my sleep a few years ago and sprained my upper back so badly that I couldn't get dressed without weeping.

Whilst pregnant, I turned over in bed and woke up feeling like my pelvis was splitting in half. Ended up diagnosed with pelvic girdle pain and sciatica.

Basically, turning over in bed is dangerous for me.

I've also randomly scratched myself across my cheeks a few times. Quite badly. No idea what I was dreaming about to cause that!