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(Message started by: ozzman on Jul 14^th, 2003, 9:45am)

Title: Ipsilateral Sleep
Post by ozzman on Jul 14^th, 2003, 9:45am

'nother survey,

Do you normally favor sleeping on the side where you get CH or not? (Obviously, not while having an attack)

Ozzy

Me, absolutely, right side

Title: Re: Ipsilateral Sleep
Post by juvy on Jul 14^th, 2003, 10:00am

I've got the rare form of CPH, I get hit on both sides. but i prefer to sleep on my left side. (the right gets hit quite regularly while the left gets hit only every other attack).

Title: Re: Ipsilateral Sleep
Post by stuey on Jul 14^th, 2003, 10:07am

Start out on left side for some reason cause it just seems the right thing to do, but always end up on my back in the mornings.

Title: Re: Ipsilateral Sleep
Post by eyes_afire on Jul 14^th, 2003, 5:17pm

I'm a left sided CHer. I've now gotten to the point where I'm scared shitless to sleep on my left side.

--- Steve, one of many...

Title: Re: Ipsilateral Sleep
Post by oringkid on Jul 14^th, 2003, 5:29pm

I'm a left sided CH'er and a left sided sleeper.

During cycle though, I try not to sleep on my left side.

I also am sooo bad about sleeping ONLY on my left side, that, now that I am older, I will have terrible pain in my left hip after a while if I don't make myself sleep on the right for awhile.

What is really weird though, is that I used to be a right side sleeper.... I'm thinking about this as I type and what I'm thinking is that I tend to sleep "towards the outside"
In other words, if you were standing at the end of my bed and I was laying on your left hand side... I would be sleeping on my right side so that my face is towards the edge of the bed. If I were laying on your right hand side, I would be sleeping on my left side...again face towards edge. This could be because I have been married for 16 yrs... Don't take that wrong! LOL! I have this thing about breathing other peoples air. I know, sounds stupid, but I feel like I'm not getting any oxygen if I am breathing in my hubbys carbon dioxide... I also cannot breathe my own carbon dioxide..ie I can't sleep with the covers over my head. So for me, I think it is really a case of seeking the most open and unobscured space.

Before I was married... I always slept on my right side and on the left side of the bed.... so I guess that kills that theory... at least in my case.

Sherry

Title: Re: Ipsilateral Sleep
Post by Charlie on Jul 14^th, 2003, 6:23pm

Most of the time, attacks included, I go to sleep sleeping on my left side but find myself on my back when I wake up. I have no idea what this means.

Ipthalateralth Thleepth ith hard to thay without lipthing.

Charlie

Title: Re: Ipsilateral Sleep
Post by ozzman on Jul 15^th, 2003, 7:16am

Oh well,
No connection there, I guess I actually fall more in to the Sherry category, I sleep facing the open side and I get more oxygen that way.
However, the other reason is that even when not in cycle whenever I get shadows with nasal stuffiness, if I lay on that side the sinuses clear up, but maybe I'm just weird. Before I hear any smart ass remarks, remember, everyone is someone else's weirdo...

Ozzy

Title: Re: Ipsilateral Sleep
Post by ZAIRA on Jul 15^th, 2003, 2:38pm

;)

Hello Ozzy... I always sleep in the right side... (CH side).

Zaira