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Stimming whilst in a hospital bed?

DazeAndConfused

This may be a strange request, but I'm stuck in a hospital bed connected to oxygen. My day to day stim is to scratch my head or fiddling with my hair, when more agitated I will rock, bounce my feet or flap the hand. Unfortunately the other night I was also on a drip and couldn't easily get out of bed. At about 3am the nurses appeared to take an arterial blood sample from the wrist. I also happen to be super needle phobic, so got very agitated. It turns out that this type of test is much more painful than the conventional ones, to the extent they had to hold me down. As you might imagine I went into a bit of a meltdown after, but couldn't really find any comfort in the usual stims when in bed . Can anyone suggest something that might be soothing in that situation?

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  • I do a lot of toe-wiggling in bed. I'll also really tense and relax my leg muscles. I usually only do either if I have restless legs, as they are a bit ... antisocial. However, as you probably don't have any company in your hospital bed (unless its really overcrowded), you could go wild.

    You could try some slight sit-up motions as a way of sort-of rocking while lying down (unless you've had abdominal surgery).

    I like to flap my fingers a lot—just smacking them off my palms—which might be less likely to dislodge a cannula than a proper hand flap.

    Something to fidget with is probably a good idea ( beat me to it).

    Another thing I really like in bed is running my hand over the bed covers if they have a nice texture. So perhaps some textured items you can place by your hand?

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  • I do a lot of toe-wiggling in bed. I'll also really tense and relax my leg muscles. I usually only do either if I have restless legs, as they are a bit ... antisocial. However, as you probably don't have any company in your hospital bed (unless its really overcrowded), you could go wild.

    You could try some slight sit-up motions as a way of sort-of rocking while lying down (unless you've had abdominal surgery).

    I like to flap my fingers a lot—just smacking them off my palms—which might be less likely to dislodge a cannula than a proper hand flap.

    Something to fidget with is probably a good idea ( beat me to it).

    Another thing I really like in bed is running my hand over the bed covers if they have a nice texture. So perhaps some textured items you can place by your hand?

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