Plastic balls in a waist bag
Looking for a better way to force sleeping on a side
It seems that it might help to improve symptoms of sleep apnea when I sleep on a side. However it is not really easy and hard to insure I am in the position. It is really hard to avoid moving during sleep and it sometimes I sleep on a side. Then, the SPO2 value is dropped when I slept on a back.
If I do some internet search, some people mention holding a pillow helps to keep the position. Also some other people say wearing backpack would help to keep the side position. However holding a pillow does not help much for my case. Also, I have some backpacks, but they are dirty since I have been using them outdoor and I do not want to use them in a bed. But I do not want to buy a backpack just for this purpose.
Plastic balls
Then, an alternate idea is using a waist bag with plastic balls during sleeping. Due to the balls in the back, it would be uncomfortable when I sleep on a back. I though it might help to force sleeping on a back.
The result ....
The result was not bad. I can see some improvement, reducing SPO2 drops during sleeping. I collected data for a several days and I did see some difference with / without the balls. There are a couple issues:
- The bag got loose during the sleeping and the back position was not on the back. Then I can sleep on a back.
- It is not really comfortable. Every time I was on a back position, I woke up and I could not sleep well since I woke up so often. I may adopted when I continue to do... But it was bad the next day during this experiment.
The conclusion is it might help, but it is not very comfortable to wear the waist bag during sleeping with the balls. For long term, I may be able to adopted when I continue to do. But just for a short term, it was not very comfortable and did not sleep well. We might consider softer balls instead of the hard plastic balls
(To be continue ....)
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