Do you sleep with something that is doing you more harm than good?
Whenever I fall asleep with my phone close to me, I wake up with a headache. I used to sleep with my phone in my bed. I use my iPhone as an alarm (and almost everything else). During the day, I am mostly glued to my phone and at night, that doesn’t change. When I’m really tired, it’s hard for me to wake up with just an electronic sound so I used to keep my phone in bed with me, to increase the odds that the alarm would be effective. After a while, I noticed that I would wake up feeling a little “tinny” with a dull ache in my body. I tried moving the phone further and further and further away, sometimes leaving it on the other side of the room while I sleep. I still use it for an alarm though so it’s never too far away.
Last night, I was listening to a video when I fell asleep and I woke up with the phone on my nightstand inches away from my head. And a headache. I woke up with a headache that only went away after I forced myself to drink 2 bottles of water, ate a banana and went for a run that felt like my head was encased in a torture device the whole time. Food, hydration and exercise. That’s my normal way of fighting a stress headache and it often works. But I’d rather not have these kinds of pains to begin with.
I’m going back to leaving the phone behind when I go to sleep but I really want to know if this happens to anyone else.
Do you sleep with your phone close to you? Have you ever woke up with a phone-induced headache?
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I’ve fallen asleep with my phone next to me many times. My sisters and I text each other until well after midnight and we are all too tired and run out of things to say, LOL
But I’ve never woken up with a headache. However, I do notice I don’t sleep as well with the phone nearby, besides the chance of a message dinging and waking me up. If the notification light starts flashing even if no sound, I’ll still wake up I don’t like that. So now I try to set it on the night stand and flip it over and ignore it, LOL
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Oh thanks so much for the comment, Kristy. Great to hear from you. I love that your and your sisters chat at night. I wish my girlfriends and I were that close but I seem to have lost touch with lots of them. Sad face.
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I haven’t had headaches, but found your link the the Huff Post article very interesting. Although I certainly love using my phone, it made me feel a little better that I don’t have the same level of enormous dependency that the article mentioned. I do have the physical symptoms, however; my neck is jacked and ‘text claw’ is a real thing for my left hand especially (although I vote on having a better name for it).
Are used to sleep with my phone on the bedside table, but I moved it out of our bedroom when my husband said the buzzing from text and various alerts was waking him up. I still use the phone as an alarm, but it is in the other room (with volume on high 😉).
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