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Re: Sleeping position


Posted by Perry on July 23, 2000 at 09:46:01:

In Reply to: Sleeping position posted by Bas on July 23, 2000 at 08:55:04:

Sleeping upright is a known partial cure for OSA. I am currenly doing it myself (just started last night) and woke up more refreshed than in months (and without several specific back pains).

Without going into the full story here, this is the latest step in fixing the next problem after you fixed the previous one. The reduction in OSA was clearly noted on my AutoCPAP charts (not to mention the extreemly high mental alterness).

Now I have to find a better cushion arangment to keep me in the upright postition all night.
I am surprised that someone on the web does not sell such cusions to convert an ordinary bed (and I just spent several hours looking). Instead they sell several thousand dollar adjustable beds. ARggg... Off to an apolstery supply shop for large foam cushions which I can skulpt. The new bed would be nice - but my money tree was recently cut down and I am growing a new one (and trees don't instantly appear).

Note that I am currently using a $325 3" thick memory foam cushion which I use on top of my existing materess which I found on the web. Works great over cushions to form the upright shapped matteress.

Perry

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