Sleeping on Back with OSA

jrfoster · Post by **jrfoster** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 9:29 pm

Goofproof wrote: Sleeping on your back, will raise your pressure requirements, that's why sleep studies want you on your back, so they can find your worse requirements.

Interesting, because I had 2 sleep studies and no one even mentioned sleeping on my back.

Jeff

Goofproof · Post by **Goofproof** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:53 pm

jrfoster wrote:
Goofproof wrote: Sleeping on your back, will raise your pressure requirements, that's why sleep studies want you on your back, so they can find your worse requirements.
Interesting, because I had 2 sleep studies and no one even mentioned sleeping on my back.

Jeff

No one at my sleep study caried either. They didn't care that I didn't have O2, as prescribed, they didn't care about a lot of things, that's why we have to learn what's going on and look out for each other, So we can stop the passing on of incorrect information by people who don't know the correct answers.

If you are going to sleep on your back, get a APAP, so it can correct your pressure as needed, also comes in handy if you ignore the rules on drinking. Many things we do to ourselves can make Apnea worse. Jim

Wulfman · Post by **Wulfman** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 12:10 pm

When I had my sleep study, I specifically told the (very nice) gal that was doing the set-up and monitoring that I could NOT sleep on my back.....after asking whether she would require me to sleep on my back. She said "No....just sleep in whatever positions you normally sleep in."

And, for someone who could normally fall asleep in a heartbeat, as many of us experienced in our "sleep study"......we couldn't SLEEP worth a darn.....it was hard to get to sleep with all that stuff attached.....and knowing that we were being watched.

Den

jrfoster · Post by **jrfoster** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 3:28 pm

Wulfman wrote:And, for someone who could normally fall asleep in a heartbeat, as many of us experienced in our "sleep study"......we couldn't SLEEP worth a darn.....it was hard to get to sleep with all that stuff attached.....and knowing that we were being watched.
Den

Boy is that true! My total sleep time was only 2.6 miserable hours all night!
I don't even remember sleeping but the tech said that I did.

Jeff

Snoredog · Post by **Snoredog** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 3:47 pm

Goofproof wrote:
jrfoster wrote:
Goofproof wrote: Sleeping on your back, will raise your pressure requirements, that's why sleep studies want you on your back, so they can find your worse requirements.
Interesting, because I had 2 sleep studies and no one even mentioned sleeping on my back.

Jeff
No one at my sleep study caried either. They didn't care that I didn't have O2, as prescribed, they didn't care about a lot of things, that's why we have to learn what's going on and look out for each other, So we can stop the passing on of incorrect information by people who don't know the correct answers.

If you are going to sleep on your back, get a APAP, so it can correct your pressure as needed, also comes in handy if you ignore the rules on drinking. Many things we do to ourselves can make Apnea worse. Jim

canuck88 · Post by **canuck88** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:23 pm

I thought I was a side sleeper but according to my sleep study I spent 90% of my time on my back - it seems that I start on my side but end up on my back. So now, since I'm on CPAP, I just start out on my back and stay there... no problems at all.

Bamalady · Post by **Bamalady** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:30 pm

The Lab Tech I had told me I needed to spend time on both sides and my back. She woke me up to tell me to turn to one of the positions....don't remember which.