Sleeping lying down

[Guest guest]

I am a little over 6 weeks out, and I still cannot sleep through the

night in my bed. I started out sleeping in the recliner, and ended up

sleeping that way for the first month, although I tried on and off to

lie in my bed. I chalked my inability to lie in bed up to the fact that

I still had in the g-tube, and the balloon that held it in was pressing

on my diaphram and tummy. But then, when the g-tube came out, the

problem remained.

I try going to bed in my bed, and I wake up after just a couple hours,

racked with pain in my back and hips, and with my stomach aching. I

cannot lie on my left side at all, and not on my back for more than a

few minutes before the pain starts. The only comfortable position is on

my right side, but after awhile I feel the intense need to change

positions, and when I do, there is no other way to lay comfortably. It

wakes me up, and there is nothing to do but go back out to the

recliner. Is this normal?

Also...I have still only lost 24lbs, and that seems incredibly slow,

compared to what most of you say you are losing. And these 24 pounds

fluctuate up and down a pound or two...very depressing! I'm doing 3

shakes, all my vitamins and almost all the water each day. When I eat

food, it is soft and mushy, mostly protein with some veggies. I've

never felt sick or thrown up, and the only time my stomach hurts is when

I lie down flat on my back or left side, but I am getting tired on

always sleeping sitting up. Have any of you experienced this?

Cindy