If you lay in bed in your side with legs together, do your knees hurt?

[Pheonix2023]

Mine feel are when I lay like this, don’t know if it’s because I’ve got skinny knees or something as there’s not much flesh on the bones m it feel very boney

I also sleep with a pillow between my knees. Perhaps you could keep one close by so you can slip it there whenever you notice you’ve moved onto your side.

No but the chub rub between my thighs bothers me and I use talc most nights. I'm a side or sometimes front sleeper.

I hate my knees touching too and tuck some of the duvet between them.

No but my back and hip hurt. I also sleep with a pillow between my legs and have recently discovered a heart shaped cushion, which is less bulky but still supportive. I prefer to sleep on my side but sometimes have to sleep on my back with a cushion or leg rest under my knees.

No, but then again I don't often sleep on my side with my knees together.

Weirdly I often wake up on my back with one leg dangling out of the bed, and the other leg flopped out to the side like I'm about to have a smear , one arm above my head and one arm resting on my stomach 🤣

Apparently I've always slept this way since a baby, I'd dangle a leg out through the cot bar space!!

No but my hips do and have done since my second pregnancy 8 years ago when I got PGP.

Yes my knees hurt at the time and my hips will hurt in the morning. Usually pad with the duvet but started using a pillow and it's so much better. I found quite a heavy memory foam one is the best because it doesn't move or slip.

Think I agree with pp about trying a more upright position though. I sleep very well on a reclining chair. Just needs a good amount of planning.

I sleep in the recovery position clutching the pillow my head rests on.

DH ( who fractured his NOF and pelvis as a young lad) has a ‘special pillow’ that he has in between his legs - we have to remember it when we go away. And god help him if he forgets it!

Yes, I also tuck duvet in. I like to sleep with 1 leg in and 1 leg out of the covers so it works for me.

No but as others have said, use a pillow. I wouldn’t have thought it’s due to skinny knees. Knees are bony on most people I’d have thought unless very overweight.

Recovery position sleeper here too with additional pillow under my knee for support. Otherwise my knees and hips suffer since PGP during my last pregnancy.

Yes. I just stagger my legs slightly so my knee bones don’t rest on each other.

Same, I stagger my legs slightly so that they’re not totally resting on each other. I can’t sleep on my back, definitely not comfortable. And sleeping on my front is generally when I seem to have nightmares.

Yes, so I use a pregnancy pillow (before I got that, I used one pillow between my knees and one pillow to hug plus one under my head - always had to ask for extra pillows whenever staying somewhere else)

I sleep like this and it doesn't hurt at all (and I'm v skinny, I don't think that's relevant), but the DC and DH struggle to sleep comfortably due to having EDS. They all do the pillow/duvet thing.

What’s EDS?

Yes, I assumed its because my knees are very fat. But having said that I have always had very painful flesh, to poke it or press it has always hurt on my legs.

@Pheonix2023
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