So she hijacked my friends and they basically crowdfunded a weighted blanket for me 20lbs.
Weighted blanket for summer reddit.
By the time march rolled around my sister decided that she was going to help me sleep if it killed her.
As a general rule a weighted blanket should be 5 to 10 percent of your body weight.
The luxome weighted blanket is made with a 300 thread count lyocell.
The weighted blanket should also fit snugly to the size of the bed.
I haven t looked into how that figure was determined but it should not be surprising if the optimal weight for a blanket on a sleeping adult is different than a vest on an awake child.
What i found was that the 10 recommendation is based on the use of weighted vests not blankets and not during sleep in autistic children.
It looks and feels high quality while the 6 8kg blanket was just the right weight for our testers.
There s absolutely nothing worse than drifting off to sleep blissfully wrapped up in your cozy anxiety reducing weighted blanket only to wake up in the middle of the night lying in a pool of your own.
Mattress brand simba also has its own weighted blanket which performed best overall in our tests.
I have severe anxiety and used to be woken by night tremors attacks so my boyfriend got me a 12lb stone weighted blanket.
They surprised me with it for my birthday and i cried.
Don t worry about it.
I got a weighted blanket a few years ago but after a few months i stopped using it cause of the summer and was sweating a lot i couldn t figure out the best way to wash it still feel stupid for asking i would like to get back to using it cause my anxiety has been through the roof the last month but i can t if i can t figure out to wash it.
I honestly haven t had a severe attack since then.
I sleep with it every night.
I mean when you have 8 people paying for a 200 blanket it s not that bad.
As your temperature fluctuates from cool to warm and vice versa a weighted blanket that can appeal to both is hella ideal.
Adults can use medium large weighted.
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So if you weigh around 150 pounds a blanket at 15 pounds is ideal.