A few months ago I bought a very nice 12 pound weighted blanket.

Unfortunately I have quite a few physical problems. Very overweight (thank you psych meds), degenerative disease lower back, asthma, sleep apnea, GERD and others not related to this post.

Just realized that my 12 pound blanket was aggravating my back pain and breathing problems. I use a ventilator type cpap machine. I had a very bad reflux incident during my sleep a week ago and had trouble breathing even with my automatic adjusting machine (am also on oxygen) whenever I rolled onto my back.

I have a hospital bed I sleep on with my head inclined. Today I realized a lot of my recent back pain/reflux/breathing problems are due to the extra weight of the blanket!

Am trying to lose weight. Yeah, seroquel, in spite of you! But would have to lose 40-50 pounds before I would try sleeping with my blanket again.

So for now I will just use the blanket for my feet or if I have the need to wrap up in it but not sleep with it.

I am posting this in case someone else runs into the same problems. And if they have a weighted blanket they are using they might consider that that could be causing them problems.

I also have a weighted eye mask but that DOES seem to help me sleep better.