Bottom dysphoria interrupting sleep

[Maevia]

Does anybody else have this issue, where when you try to sleep you can't manage it because you can feel it there, and if you move at all you just feel it flopping around down there like some kind of gross slug? I used to sleep tucked until I found out it was dangerous to do that, and that you're not supposed to tuck for more than 8 hours (I already push past that recommendation regularly). 

[MirandaB]

I have some of those thoughts, I had no idea how small and flexible that thing would become on HRT, so it folds up when I'm rolling around trying to fall asleep and I think, gee it would be nice if it just went away and I didn't have to think about it any more.  

[LaurenA]

I really wish mine would disappear. What makes it worst for me and causes me to want to move my GRS schedule is the prostate problems I'm currently dealing with. I just want it all to go away.

[Ivy]

3 hours ago, RhondaS said:

I had no idea how small and flexible that thing would become on HRT

This is true for me also.  Fortunately it was not that impressive to start with.  I'd like to not have it, but mostly don't think about it.  I don't like tight clothes anyway, so it's seldom an issue in that respect.  At my age, and with my finances, surgery is pretty much out anyway.

[Heather Nicole]

9 hours ago, Maevia said:

I used to sleep tucked until I found out it was dangerous to do that, and that you're not supposed to tuck for more than 8 hours (I already push past that recommendation regularly). 

 

Would snug-fitting underwear (but not too tight, of course) be too close to counting as a tuck? That's what I wear to bed and I don't really have issues with it flopping around. I would totally have flippy-floppy nighttime issues if didn't wear them. Although in my case, I'm too overweight to really do a proper tuck anyway.

[Moira Arista]

I never thought of this. I'm so small that you wouldn't think it would be an issue. It is though. I hate the stupid thing. I hate it and the other 2 things. I hope to get them removed someday. I do feel it when I sleep and I hate it. 

[Ivy]

11 hours ago, Moira Arista said:

I hate the stupid thing.

I try to think of it as being inside-out somehow.  Doesn't work like it used to anyway.

[Moira Arista]

On 10/4/2022 at 8:28 AM, Ivy said:

I try to think of it as being inside-out somehow.  Doesn't work like it used to anyway.

I can't do that. I can't imagine it being inside out when Roll over in bed and it all shifts with me. I know TMI but the point is valid. 

[lillyinmn]

On 9/16/2022 at 1:30 AM, Maevia said:

Does anybody else have this issue, where when you try to sleep you can't manage it because you can feel it there,

It did not occur to me until recently that I have bottom dysphoria.  Then I started sleeping with tights over panties.  I sleep so much better now!  And I like that everything stays put after I get into bed.  

 

Its winter now, and the fleece tights I got from Target for like 12.99 feel divine!  My only complaint about them is that the synthetic fiber gets those sweater balls on the outside.  Time to find that old sweater shaver I guess!  When it gets warmer, I will find something snug but cooler to sleep in.

 

Now I get why people like tights.  They just feel good.  And for some of us, they keep the spare parts immobilized.

[_Kira_]

I started wearing sleep shorts or tap pants under my nightie to relieve the feeling of it flopping around. If I were to wear anything even remotely restrictive, I definitely wouldn't be able to sleep at all. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Josnn]

On 10/3/2022 at 8:22 PM, Moira Arista said:

I never thought of this. I'm so small that you wouldn't think it would be an issue. It is though. I hate the stupid thing. I hate it and the other 2 things. I hope to get them removed someday. I do feel it when I sleep and I hate it. 

Pretty much. I am regularly very uncomfortable.