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Sleeping with fans on
My wife keeps the bedroom feeling like an icebox even when it's cold as you know what outside. We could have snow on the ground and she has to sleep with fans and a window cracked. The inside of our bedroom feel like being outside to me and I already have arthritis. On top of it all, I hurt and am always waking up feeling like crap. She is constantly sick but very hard headed.
Her not wanting to compromise to see that atleast eliminations can would help both of us. PLEASE HELP, I miss sleeping in my bed and just want to feel like myself again. Like right now fans are off, heat is on in the house but because they stay on all night, our bedroom is freezing and I'm stuck in a semi warm closet.
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Hello there!
Sorry to hear that Antarctica has found refuge in your bedroom. Lol :-)
In all honesty, I do have a solution to your issue. Have you considered a heating blanket for your side of the bed?
I hope all goes well. :-)
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I like what adviceman had to tell you. I have the same problems with hot flashes, day or night. At least I don't need the room at freezing, I am just constantly pulling the covers up and then back down. Its not so bad i have that to an extreme each night. Sometimes I move the covers without waking. I do sleep hard so if I've yanked the covers off then hubby will get cold. What we've done is often use two separate blankets for each of us, and his stays up when I am yanking mine down. And thats what made me think to suggest something like that for you, but not just separate blankets, make yours an electric blanket to keep you real toasty. In the days before central heating when a fireplace was the only heat, our ancestors went to bed wearing a night cap, since most our heat escapes through our head, if we keep it covered, we stay warmer.
I think if you allow her to use a fan and keep a window cracked a tiny bit but you wear a knit cap and use an electric blanket, then all should feel comfortable for you.
Good luck
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Unfortunately I know exactly how you feel. My wife suffers from hot flashes partly because of age and partly because of medication she takes. While I don't mind a cool bedroom she likes a cold bedroom. Because of medication I take I suffer from night sweats so I think you can imagine what it is like to wake up covered in sweat in a frigid bedroom.
Before I started to suffer from night sweats I tolerated the cold by adding a blanket to my side of the bed. Since my wife went to sleep before me I would shut the window down to only about an inch opening. I found this let in more than enough cool air to keep the room cool. Since my wife sleeps closer to the window than I do I felt this should satisfy her. We also have a ceiling fan in our bedroom which circulates air more gently than a table fan will and was left on in a low speed srtting.
This worked until I started to have my problem. I told my wife we had to reach a compromise as I could not see how having the bedroom only a few degrees warmer than outside was any help to her when she slept with the covers up to her nose. I gave her a choice either the window or the fan. She chose the fan. So now when I come to bed if the room is to cool I close the window and leave the fan on.
If my wife gets to warm she will usually throw the cover of, which usually ends up on me. I can deal with this better then a freezing room or an empty side of the bed.
Marriage has always been and always will be a series of compromises to achieve that 50/50 split that marriage is meant to be. Talk to your wife and see if a compromise can't be reached. Remember one thing about a good compromise. By definition it is something neither side like but both sides can live with.
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