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Does anyone else’s nose get blocked almost instantly the moment they lie down to sleep?

This has been happening to me more and more lately and it’s honestly getting really frustrating. During the day my breathing is mostly normal, but as soon as I get into bed, one side of my nose completely blocks up and I suddenly feel like I can’t breathe properly through my nose anymore.

Then I end up constantly switching sides trying to “open” the blocked nostril, and some nights I basically can’t relax because I become too aware of my breathing. I’ve also noticed I wake up with a dry mouth a lot now, which probably means I’m mouth breathing while sleeping.

I’ve already tried:

• sleeping in different positions
• allergy meds
• saline spray
• humidifier
• cleaning/changing bedsheets more often
• those random breathing tricks from YouTube/TikTok

Some things help temporarily, but nothing consistently fixes it. The weird part is my nose feels mostly fine until I actually lie down.

Is this usually allergies/sinus inflammation or something structural like a deviated septum?

And more importantly, what actually helped you breathe better at night long term? At this point I’m just tired of getting bad sleep because of a blocked nose every night lol.

I’ve been trying to fix my forward head posture for a while now and honestly I feel like it keeps getting worse from constantly looking down at my phone and sitting at my desk all day.

I started noticing that “text neck” look where your head kind of shifts forward and your shoulders round in. My neck also feels stiff almost every day now, especially after work or scrolling on my phone for too long.

I’ve been doing stretches, chin tucks, trying to improve my desk setup, etc, but it’s hard to stay consistent and I always end up falling back into bad posture without realizing it.

I keep seeing people recommend posture correctors for forward head posture and rounded shoulders, but then other people say posture correctors don’t work and only temporarily pull your shoulders back.

So now I’m confused lol.

Do posture correctors actually help fix posture over time? Especially for forward head posture from phone use/computer posture?

Curious if anyone here actually improved their posture long term or reduced neck pain with one, or if exercises/stretching are the only real solution.