what's that? you say you want more? why, certainly-
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and i will say for the record that i am waking up feeling better than i have in the longest time. as you can plainly see, i'm using pressure of 13.8-20. and i'm doing so without any difficulty at all.
my aerophagia seems to be a thing of the past. there was a slight remnant which presented as gas. not the stomach stretchingly painful gas of true aerophagia. but uncomfortable, nonetheless. what seems to be clearing up that last vestige of it is maybe two things. i'm using ginger in the form of hard candy. and i'm using low doses of melatonin.
from what muse inc posted, ginger can fight heartburn or as you fancy people call it, gerd. i have very, very few boats of heartburn, despite being diagnosed with a light hiatal hernia. but i have been having digestion problems throughout. i've found that ginger has helped with this.
but also, due to this forum, i've found that i've been taking TOO MUCH melatonin. so i've scaled that back. also, chicago granny posted a study showing that melatonin can aid in digestion too. (it was not in those words;i'm freely interpreting.) and ginger has a bit of melatonin too.
all of this seems to be resulting in a more solid sleep. i'm starting to see nights of 5-6 hours without my being aware that i'm waking up!! the rest of my "bed time" i'm just content to lay falling in and out of sleep until i feel like getting up.
this just great news and i'm very pleased by it. there is room for improvement and i plan to keep going at it to improve my quality of sleep.
i'm also getting more exercise. many of you wouldn't consider it true exercise. but i keep moving. after breakfast and checking a few forums, i walk in the late morning for about an hour. in the evening, i'm on my spin bike for 45 minutes. strewn about, i do chair yoga and water aerobics. two or three times a week, i take the dog for an additional walk in the woods for about 1/2 an hour.
i want to thank everyone on this forum for helping me, either directly or indirectly.
excelsior!