Anyone reccomend using a recliner after surgery?

Hi everyone,  Several people have mentioned using a recliner to sleep in after surgery. I'm not sure what kind of recliner to get or if it is really a necessary expense. Any thoughts? I tried checking out local thrift stores to cutback on the expense...

I made a feather pillow recline on my half of the bed.  Easier to adjust and much cheaper.  It will be 1-2 wks of this and its over
Good luck

I did use a recliner for the first few nights. I was at my Moms house and her loveseat each side of it reclined back and thats what I slept in. It made it MUCH easier to get up and out. The bed almost seemed too soft and I just couldnt get comfy right after surgery.

I spent about two days in my recliner when I first came home, but made it a point to go to bed at night.  I only slept for a few hours in bed (right after taking a pain pill...) and got up to go to the recliner.  I am betting if you sit up whenever you are most comfortable at home now, that will be fine for you.  I would plan for a nice comfy chair and something you can rest your feet on if you don't have a recliner - I would not buy one... JMHO.

OH boy, not sure if its worth the trouble and expense.  I did sleep sitting up the first few nights in the overstuffed chair, after a little wonderful pain pill I would just conk out.  The next couple of nights I propped myself up on the couch.  It may have been about 5 -6 nights that I was unable to lay in the bed.  Even when I did go to bed I'd prop myself up and graduly I was able to lay flat.  I think I would have loved a recliner, but unless you really want to add one to your exisitng furniture situation I'd just make do.  I even got a wedge from the drug store.  For some reason I thought it would be perfect but it was to hard, to much of an angle and I never used it. 

Yes!!!!  I slept in a recliner for almost a week. 

since I'm a total stomach sleeper, I didn't have a recliner so I slept on the couch for the first week after coming home from surgery (mainly because i let my parents have my bed LOL).  I just needed something to keep me from rolling over onto my stomach and that seemed to work for me.

I am a side sleeper. I slept in my bed as normal. Although, I did prefer the side opposite of where my drain was. I did not use a recliner although I do have one already.

I was able to sleep in bed from the first night home.  I just used a bunch of pillows to prop myself up for the first few nights and gradually got rid of pillows.  Like Debbie, I'm a side sleeper but I wasn't able to sleep on either side until at least a week out.  Other than that, I laid on the couch propped up as well.

Hi Anna,

I slept in a recliner for about a week.  I had two drains and I found the bed uncomfortable no matter how i tried to sleep, since they were on both sides.  I don't know that I would by one, but since you live close you are free to borrow the one I have, we are just storing it in the basement until we get around to finishing it.
 
Traci