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Hip joint pain while sleeping
Added: 486 days ago.
Added by: templingirl
Section: General.
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Im 21 weeks pregnant and Ive been sleeping on my sides to try to avoid sleeping on my back, as they say. But some nights I wake up with extreme pain in both my hips, doesnt matter which side I lay on. I sleep with a pillow between my knees but some nights it seems to not matter. Any advice?

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rachie83 - 486 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) My daughter is 2 months old now and while I was pregnant I had horrible hip pain and my sciatic nerve killed me! It started around 16 weeks and lasted the rest of my pregnancy until I delivered at 38 weeks. I used the pregnancy boppy pillow and had it under my stomach and between my legs and if I was laying on my right side for example I would have my back and left leg behind my right leg and for some reason that angle helped a little but really there is not much to do for it. Sorry your going through this and I totally feel sorry for you!

rachie83 - 486 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) My daughter is 2 months old now and while I was pregnant I had horrible hip pain and my sciatic nerve killed me! It started around 16 weeks and lasted the rest of my pregnancy until I delivered at 38 weeks. I used the pregnancy boppy pillow and had it under my stomach and between my legs and if I was laying on my right side for example I would have my back and left leg behind my right leg and for some reason that angle helped a little but really there is not much to do for it. Sorry your going through this and I totally feel sorry for you!

plantlvr07 - 486 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) I am 39 weeks tomorrow and still have to sleep on my back. I am propped up on 3 big pillows so I'm sitting halfway up but it's so much more comfy to me than trying to sleep on my sides. It was murdering my lower back and hips. My doc was fine with me staying on my back as long as I am propped up like that.

shanita hall - 486 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) omg honey im going thru smae thing but it seems to hurt only oon the right side im 22 weeks and i feel u just stretch before bed and when u get up but even that sometimes may not work just try ur best to stay comfy :)

MichelleMc(pink!) - 486 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) When lying on your side, try putting the leg that's on top forward, slightly away from your body, propped on a pillow. That can take some of the weight off your bottom hip. The only other thing that helps me is sleeping on the couch when the hip pain gets bad, as having the back of the couch along with the seat there to support more of my weight seems to help.

jenica - 486 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) I hate to say it but its just part of the experience :( I had that with all 3 of my pregnancies and it got really bad toward the end. The aching in my bones got so bad that sometimes I wanted to cry. Its all worth it in the end though!

Mandy86 **pink** - 486 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) I'll be 23 weeks tomorrow and I have the same problem , wish I had some advice for you , I'm gonna keep checking this post to see if anyone has any good advice

lilyxox19 - 486 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) I had this during my pregnancy. I just kept rotating what side I slept on. Since I peed so much at night, every time I got up to pee I would go back to sleep on the other side. Also by the end of the pregnancy I couldn't sit up from laying down without getting super pain in the groin area (i had to have my husband help sit me up to pee at night). Sleeping in a sofa chair worked for me. Lame I know. But I didn't have any hip pain or groin pain when getting up, and it helped with the heartburn

jjrhodes - 486 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) I bought a wedge pillwo with my last pregnancy so that my body could lay back on it and take some of the pressure off my hips and it seemed to help a lot. You can also use a body pillow. Towards the end of my pregnancy though, nothing seemed to help much

DixieMay - 486 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) i wanna know the answer to this too.. I am 28 weeks and i have been having this problem for a while too

faybebaby - 486 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) i dont havee much advice but defo sympathy. i've been experiencing the same thing when laaying on my side. midwife just said its to do with ligaments and joints all loosening. i too sleep with a pillow in bnetween my legs but other than that i was just told would go away after baby is born. sometimes i just have to lay on my back otherwise my hips go completely stiff and i cant walk properly next day. x

faybebaby - 486 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) i dont havee much advice but defo sympathy. i've been experiencing the same thing when laaying on my side. midwife just said its to do with ligaments and joints all loosening. i too sleep with a pillow in bnetween my legs but other than that i was just told would go away after baby is born. sometimes i just have to lay on my back otherwise my hips go completely stiff and i cant walk properly next day. x