My Life and Sleep Apnea

I slept on my stomach till I was in my late twenties. Until then, sleep wasn’t really an issue with me, and it didn’t seem to matter what position I slept in. Then, I had an injury to one of the discs in my back. The b ack pain was extremely sharp, and it seemed worse when I was on my stomach. After I had a nerve block done, the pain in my back left I also found that sleeping on my stomach was uncomfortable. Sleeping on my back seemed the only way that I could get any rest. Of course, that’s pretty much when the sleep apnea started. As I have written in the past, there are some things to consider when sleeping on your stomach… You will find that many folks who have sleep apnea also have acid reflux or GERD. I do. Besides not eating before you go to bed, sleeping with your head propped is also a good idea.  Pick a good pillow if you have sleep apnea. I use a wedge pillow, and it seems to help my sleep apnea and my acid reflux.  Consider sleeping on yo...

I read something interesting on one of the sleep apnea forums the other day. Someone wrote about how much better they slept when sleeping in a recliner. It seems that there may be some connection between sleep apnea and positional therapy. Positional sleep apnea can sometimes be cured by sleeping on your side. If you find that it relieves your apnea then you probably didn’t have that severe a case of OSA. Another possible consideration for positional sleep apnea is having a foam pillow made specifically for sleep apnea patients. Once again I don’t know how effective that would be with severe sleep apnea. It seems when you are sleeping in a recliner you are bend forward from your waist up which supposedly helps keep the airway open. I might give it a try but sleeping in a recliner all night doesn’t sound appealing. As I have written before I used to sleep on my stomach until a back injury forced me to sleep on my back. I don’t think that was the only reason that I started to h...