Chest hurts after sleeping on stomach?
Might as well ask this while I wait for an answer to my other question... Whenever I sleep on my chest/stomach, I wake up because it's a little more difficult to breath (though not enough to sleep on my back). It hurts more when I breath in deeply, as if sleeping on my stomach had made my rib cage stiff and hard to expand with my lungs. Mom says it may have something to do with the asthma I used to have (though hasn't been a problem) or my allergies. It hurts in the chest area (obviously), mostly along the rib cage, but I can't remember if it's just restricted to those areas. I'm not too worried about it, but then again it could get worse... I either have high cholesterol or blood pressure, can't remember which, and I am the smallest amount over weight (last time I checked, which was a LONG time ago) though nobody says I am, so I doubt that it has to do with weight. Any idea what causes this pain? I'll most likely mention it next time I go to the doctors, but that won't be for a while, and this had been going on for a while (a few years?) Thanks! -Drakes Sis ~who's name you will never find out! >:D
It feels like theres a 50 pound weight on my chest, hard to breath?
At nights, there is a fluid shift inside the body, (which is why, one usually experiences difficulty breathing, being anxious or having a hard time falling asleep) that causes this type of distress in people with heart and lung and liver diseases. Have you checked this out with your doc.? Try sleeping with your head up, as if you are sitting up in bed, with 2 or 3 pillows... I would definitely get this checked out. Good health to you.
Does sleeping on your chest make your breasts smaller?
Nope. It's the same reason that sitting on your butt doesn't make that smaller. By putting weight or pressure on fat cells will not move the cells or damage them (unless it's hugely severe pressure... but that's a whole other story). Fat cells can be compressed (like in a girdle), but that only works temporarily and the cells will return to where they were before. That's what happens when you see an indentation on your leg, arm, or other area that has some fat.
Why does keeping your hands on your chest during sleep cause scary dreams?
I still remember. When I was a child, an old lady told me a true event of witch attack where a man was killed. According to the lady, the chief mistake of the man was that his hand was on his chest while he was sleeping. The lady further told me that a witch searches a man who is sleeping by keeping his hand on the chest. The kind lady also suggested me never to keep hand on chest while sleeping. As a child, I agreed her and followed this rule strictly. Do I still follow this rule? The answer is YES SURELY. Both you and I know it is nothing more than a superstition. However I never keep my hand on chest while sleeping. But I am not doing it due to the fear of any witch attack. The reason is scientific. First of all let me tell you an incidence where I had mistakenly violated my rule and what happened to me. One day I had kept my hand on my chest. As I was dreaming about witch, I felt someone snatched my neck. I was half awake and I confirmed myself I was not dreaming at that moment. After a few seconds I decided to counter attack. Then I found myself normal on the bed. How many of you have experienced this type of incidence? I know many of you. May be most of you had kept hand on the chest at the moment. You can do it every night till you experience it. It’s an adventure for you. Only the difference will be that you can encounter a ghost or any other being what you fear about instead of a witch. It is clear that there is no witch or ghost or any other scary being behind the scene of this incidence. Then what was that? Let me give scientific reason which is so simple and interesting. This is related to your heart and brain connection. When you sleep, your heart and brain still will be functioning. Especially when you are tired and you keep any heavy thing like your hand on the chest; it affects your brain and dream. As a result you experience such type of paranormal experience in response. So I never keep my hand on chest while sleeping so that the functioning of the heart won’t be interrupted due to the heavy load on the chest and I do not experience any kind of unwanted incidence which is triggered by my brain
Improving back posture while sleeping?
If you mean by sleeping on your back, no I don't think so. If you look at someone lying on their back on a bed without a pillow you will see that their head is actually too far back. You actually need something under your head to get it into a straight position. If you want to have better posture the single best thing you can do is lift weight for your back, chest, and shoulders. Doing that for a couple months while trying to stand up straight during the day will do an amazing job...try it and you'll see. Good weight exercises would be presses for the chest, pullup and rowing movements for the back, and military presses and rear delt flys for the shoulders. And also some crunches for your abs and for your lower back some back raises.
Heavy chest only when laying on my back?
There are many reasons I can think of that may explain the symptoms you're experiencing. You may have a medical condition called orhopnea (shortness of breath while lying down), it may be caused by many different reasons, one of them being anxiety. Another reason may be that due to the anxiety attacks, your heart had been overworking; therefore, needing a greater amount of oxygen that it wasn't getting and that's why you got the sensation of "heaviness" in your chest (this is a medical condition known as angina and it is a serious medical condition that HAS to be treated asap). Now, the medicine you're taking (propanolol) it's a drug known to be a beta blocker, this drug slows down your heart rate, decrease your respiration and causes bronchoconstriction so it reduces the amount of air intake. You may want to try to sleep propped up in bed or sitting in a chair, I understand it may be uncomfortable, but I think that could help but the most important advice I could give you is TELL YOUR DOCTOR the symptoms you experienced because he may need to prescribe you another drug or check you to see and make sure you have no major or serious problems. Hope this helps.