Is anyone using any sleep tech (cooling pad, sheets, etc)

I am considering buying a cooling pad for my mattress. Is anyone using any sleep tech outside of their CPAP to help get deeper sleep?

I would love to hear everyone's experiences with sleep tech or other sleep aids that have worked or did not work.

I believe that you ask the same question on another Board. For the possible interest of the folks on this Board, below is an almost (a couple of corrections) copy and paste from there:

"Yes, we have been using a product called a ChilliPad (or now ChilliCub) for several years. It is a great product. It circulates water through the pad and the water temperature can be set anywhere between the fifties to over 100 degrees.

One of the most things critical to good sleep is having a cool to a cold bedroom (about 65 degrees or less). This temperature is easy to maintain in winter but difficult (and expensive) to achieve in the summer in most locations in the US. What many do not understand is that the room temperature is not the real goal, but the temperature that the body is exposed to is the goal. Therefore, we keep our pad set to about 60-65 degrees year around. That may sound cold, but it is not and the body quickly adapts to it and really helps with sleep. It is best to start warm (the reason that warm baths before bed are recommended), then cool down during the sleep hours, and then warm back up in the morning. There are products that have this capability and we tried one, but after serval nights of testing, we switched back to the ChilliPad.

Other items that help us are; a good sleep mask (one with deep eyecups, do not get one without them! Manta is an excellent product.), a white noise machine (based on current studies "pink" noise would be better, but it is more difficult to find). Also, a very dark room (if you can see your hand in front of your face there is too much light, therefore, the sleep mask is needed for most folks). No blue lights or ("daylight" light colored lights), but deep red or orange is OK (think campfire colors).

Make sure that the bed is comfortable for you and your partner. This is really important if you have chronic pain problems. If this applies, you may want to consider the newest bedframes on the market called "Zero-G". As we have discovered, this type of frame (developed by NASA for the Space Shuttle) is excellent at reducing pressure points and reducing back pain."

Spam?

Blocking spammers helps me calm down before bed

How's asking a question about how many here have seen some piece of Crap somewhere going to help anyone anywhere, it's not! If someone made a product and ask that here and less that 1% had used it the company would be a failure or a scam! Jim

Starting a discussion is just another tool in the box.
It has happened here many times.

chunkyfrog wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:35 pm

Starting a discussion is just another tool in the box.
It has happened here many times.

Yes, Like shouting into a storm, all you get it wet and cold. Jim

But it is much fun to watch.
Popcorn?

Goofproof wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:38 pm

chunkyfrog wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:35 pm

Starting a discussion is just another tool in the box.
It has happened here many times.

Yes, Like shouting into a storm, all you get it wet and cold. Jim

~~~ *I* so miss shouting in storms

I wonder if I'll ever be healthy enough to feel that way again?

Grace~~~ wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:29 pm

Goofproof wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:38 pm

chunkyfrog wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:35 pm

Starting a discussion is just another tool in the box.
It has happened here many times.

Yes, Like shouting into a storm, all you get it wet and cold. Jim

~~~ *I* so miss shouting in storms

I wonder if I'll ever be healthy enough to feel that way again?

Ah Yes! I fondly remember the nights I spent working with a ANFO Truck with 30 tons of ANFO, a hundred initiators (the power of 1/4 stick of TNT), and a 200 Blasting caps and leads. Working in the rain and snow, waiting for lightning to blow us into mush drops. Jim

One of the most things critical to good sleep is having a cool to a cold bedroom (about 65 degrees or less).

Nope if my bedroom or bed was that cold I would never sleep. And I am saying that with a busted a/c its 97 inside and 108 outside at 7pm. Btw folks never ever get a home warranty. They are a waste of money.

babydinosnoreless wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 14, 2019 8:14 pm

One of the most things critical to good sleep is having a cool to a cold bedroom (about 65 degrees or less).

Nope if my bedroom or bed was that cold I would never sleep. And I am saying that with a busted a/c its 97 inside and 108 outside at 7pm. Btw folks never ever get a home warranty. They are a waste of money.

Actually, my suggestions were all based on very common recommendations for fixing insomnia problems, and warm bedrooms are always the top of every expert's list. Obviously, there are exceptions to every rule and you are apparently one, but very few people can sleep well in a warm/hot bedroom. It is the reason that so many folks will comment about how much better they can sleep once the outside temperatures drop in the fall through early spring.

As for the OP being a troll, who knows but it is odd that the OP has not responded to any comments on this Board or the other Board I commended on (actually no one has commented at all over there). Also, the questions asked by the OP are actually good questions and fit in well with SA Boards. If the OP is a troll we will probably never know since I am sure that they are scared-off this Board by now. If the OP does respond on the other Board I will repost their comment here.....I do not expect to be doing so.

OP hasn't been back here at all since his/her single post.

I was on the fence about it being spam (but no direct links were included that went to anything)...but it's a good topic for discussion here as there are a lot of people who are having problems with simply poor sleep quality despite their apnea being treated quite successfully.
I happen to be one of them myself.

So probably was a spammer but sometimes even spammers give us good food for thought. Hurts no one so that's why I went ahead and approved the new member account post.
Carolyn will allow spam if it has potential educational value...she's allowed stuff that I wouldn't have but I figured since I was on the fence about it myself...I was pretty sure she would be okay with it.

Now if the OP comes back and tries to insert links to specific websites....that's a different story and you guys will need to alert me to that fact because I don't always see changes made to posts once I approve them.

I purchased a grounding pad for my bed several months ago, If you don't know what I'm talking about just do a search for "grounding/earthing". There is a lot of info about it on the internet. So......I am not pushing this by any means but a few days ago I had the pad off for one night for washing and drying and had a bad leg cramp during the night. Coincidence? Have not had a leg cramp in several months and used to get them all of the time. Grounding pad is also supposed to improve sleep quality. I have no way of knowing if the grounding pad helps or not, but I know a few people that swore by the grounding pad and convinced me to try one. Maybe the reduction in leg cramps is due to my new ASV machine???????? I'm sure that my improved sleep is due to lack of apnea events.

sptrout wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 15, 2019 8:54 am

babydinosnoreless wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 14, 2019 8:14 pm

One of the most things critical to good sleep is having a cool to a cold bedroom (about 65 degrees or less).

Nope if my bedroom or bed was that cold I would never sleep. And I am saying that with a busted a/c its 97 inside and 108 outside at 7pm. Btw folks never ever get a home warranty. They are a waste of money.

Actually, my suggestions were all based on very common recommendations for fixing insomnia problems, and warm bedrooms are always the top of every expert's list. Obviously, there are exceptions to every rule and you are apparently one, but very few people can sleep well in a warm/hot bedroom.

Phoenix has more than 4.5 million people in just the metro area. Most of us keep our houses between 78-82 in the summer time this a 30 degree drop from outside temps. Those recommendations for colder sleep are for places where it is colder to start with.

Our nighttime temps are frequently in the 90's and people have been sleeping here long before a/c was invented. When I was growing up here many places only had swamp coolers and that was all the schools had. Busses were not air conditioned either. So while you were trudging up hill both ways in a snow storm we were falling asleep in classrooms and busses at temps that today would be considered abuse.