Any advice on sleeping on your back.

Such a complicated topic to be honest – I learned to sleep on my back 7 years ago after a major surgery on my chest (I literally had no choice) and have been able to sleep on my back since… but it just isn’t as relaxing and comfortable to sleep that way for me. It just isn’t. I can do it. I’ve done it for extended periods of time. But it’s never started feeling just as relaxing to me as sleeping on my stomach.

So by ‘complicated’ I moreso mean that I feel like it gets simplified a lot… like it’s just something you can learn and then you’re good – for me even when I learned it, and practised it for an extensive period of time, it still never got GOOD.

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I usually sleep on my side or stomach, can never sleep on my back. Have bought a silk pillow case to help reduce pillow creases on my face, it does help.

I have been trying to sleep on my back for the last couple of years after noticing some new wrinkles on my décolletage. It’s really hard and unfortunately (according to my partner) it causes me to snore (much to his annoyance). I tend to wake up in the morning on my side but whenever I wake and notice I’m on my side I just force myself to lay on my back again.

Like CherryBlossom, I also get lower back pain at times when I sleep on my back.

Hi Beauties,

I was wondering if any of you have any advice or experience on trying to sleep on your back because I have been trying to sleep on my back of a couple of months now and it’s not working. If you have achieved sleeping on your back, I could love to know any for your tips and tricks on achieving this goal and I don’t have the money to spend on a expensive pillow.

Thank you for all your help and I can’t wait to see what you beauties have to say about this topic.

What about a silk pillow case ? I have yet to try that x

I’ve been sleeping on my back to minimise wrinkling for over 20 years, and it comes very naturally to me. At first I made sure I consciously rolled back onto my back if I ever found myself on my side – it eventually became automatic. It’s also important to have the right pillow – not too high.

However, I really question whether it makes any difference. I wouldn’t say my skin is any less wrinkled than others my age (I also take a lot of care of my skin and have worn sunscreen for decades). My husband, on the other hand, sleeps on his stomach, with his face squashed into his pillow, and has very little wrinkling for his age. I know a sample size of two isn’t particularly conclusive, but I don’t think I’ve really seen benefits from it. I really only continue with it because I find it the most comfortable position to sleep in. Some people will find this position increases snoring.

I have always slept on the same side. When I had a facial my therapist asked me straight out if I slept on my right side (which I do) because even at 28 the wrinkling is much more noticeable on that side! But there are lots of factors such as genetics, hydration, prior sun damage, etc. I don’t drive much but my right side obviously faces the window and as a child I was burnt through the car severely on that side. I guess for me I don’t really know if the sleeping side makes much difference but I’m trying to sleep on my back to help my sore neck as well.

I vouch 100% that if you are at all prone to snoring, back sleeping will make it much worse. Not me personally – but my ‘better half’ for 20+ years, if he started snoring, he was always asleep on his back. Every single time I ever woke up to snoring. I used to tell him to roll over on his side, he never woke up, but always somehow obediently did so in his sleep – and the snoring stopped instantly.

I’ve never been comfortable sleeping anywhere but on my side – I’ve tried my back in the past but it doesn’t feel natural for me, and I always sleep very soundly when I’m comfortable ie on my side

I forced myself to sleep on my back last night and did okay but halfway thru the night I went back to on my side because it was sooo comfortable on my side. And I did have a bit of lower back pain when I slept on my back, which is strange…I’ll still give it some more tries though.

I’ve tried sleeping on my back but I have too much lower back pain. So I just sleep on my side and find that most comfortable. If I could sleep on my back I would – less wrinkles!!

I vary between being a stomach sleeper and a back sleeper. I’ll go for months one way and then all of a sudden can’t sleep that way and switch. I find the best way for me to get to sleep on my back is by putting my arms above my head draped over my pillow with my hands/wrists almost clasped. Sounds strange, but the act of opening up the chest area really helps with breathing deeper and I find I fall asleep really quickly (my husband jokes he can count to 10 and I’m out!!). Sometimes I wake up the next morning and I’m still in exactly the same position!

Haha, this sounds really intersting! 😛
But it actually makes a lot of sense too, you kind of trick your body into relaxing in a certain position and then into falling asleep like that so it becomes like a naturally comfortable position. I will definitely be trying this!