Posted on 05/27/2011 1:23:04 PM PDT by Red Badger
I started sleeping in a lounge chair to keep myself upright in order to combat acid reflux. Eventually I got rid of the acid reflux by daily use of prilosec, but am unable to go back to sleeping in a bed, its just too uncomfortable. It does make staying in hotels a problem unless they have a lounge chair in the room, which is not common.
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I just hope none of them has a tendency to sleep walk. That first step outside is a big one. Almost a leap for mankind. lol
I just use Velcro sheets and pajamas:)
Well you make a point; it was a quite boring piece to say what can be said in a few words.
BUT...I’ll add my two cents....worth about a penny.
I have a helluva time sleeping lying in a bed. Yes I have a bed but I also have a recliner in my bedroom.
I begin the night sleeping in the recliner, on purpose, feet up, head of the recliner fully extended back that my head is about 25 deg. upright, maybe a little less.
Sometime about 4 in the am I wake and am uncomfortable. Also have to pee. Sleeping in a recliner limits one to few movements and sometimes you gotta sleep on your side.
So I get into bed for maybe two hours. I find my nose fills up something awful and eventually I can’t breathe at all out of my nose.
So I then get up, go back to the recliner and for another hour and a half I sleep in the recliner with the head part slightly pushed back. My sinus’ immediately clear up and those hours right before I get up I sleep my finest.
Hey, I dunno, but it works for me. When I had a heart bypass they put us in a recliner lots of times....odd but there was a recliner right by the bed. They’d pull us out of bed and sit us in that recliner and I’d sleep in it maybe five or six hours at a time with the hospital’s blessing.
Since then I’ve taken to sleeping in my own recliner most of the night and I sleep much better. BUT, again, I have to go over to the bed and lay prone for a couple of hours or I’m miserable.
Just great. If I followed this correctly, just about any position is bad. Flat on your back is bad for apnea, but great other wise (did not mention snoring is far worse too).
* 30 degrees? That’s pretty steep. How do you keep from slipping to the foot of the bed?*
I remember one time my buddy and I went camping in the hills. Our campsite was on the side of a hill in a large state park. I slept in my little canvas pup tent and he slept lower down the hill in a nylon tent.
I was fine in my canvas tent and cloth sleeping bag sleeping at a steep angle. He said that he slid to the bottom of the tent several times all night long because he also had a nylon sleeping bag!
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That's like the people promoting the "secrets of Eastern medicine". Life expectancy went up in China when vaccinations and antibiotics were introduced. Now tell me how acupuncture and chi balancing are superior to Western medicine.
That forced me to sleep on my back with a elevated pillow because of the pain. (Only position it didn't hurt)
It took me about two weeks to finally get used to it, but I do sleep much better, wake up more refreshed and sleep sounder
Aerobic Sleeping... I like it. I’ll have to use that on the little crazy woman. ‘see honey, I excersize’. LOL
Looks very comfortable to sleep on, but does she eat a lot?
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Papasans are practically a return to the womb. However, you need to make sure you can get up from it before you settle in, or you could wind up being a breech birth: extended labor. Some folks just can’t do it. I get out by arching backwards; get feet on floor, and push off with hands.
If I couldn’t...I’d have a trapeze installed overhead to help.
There are also double papasans that look a bit easier to get out of, but I’ve never tried one. Happy as a clam in the basic model.
I wouldnt mind having one of those in my bed...........
LOL!
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