Sonapillow

Has anyone used or know of anyone who has used the new FDA approved pillow for treating sleep apnea? It is mentioned on the HEALTH BULLETIN page of the April 2007 issue of Men's Health magazine.

yeah I posted this here the other day, but didn't get any responses. For 70 bucks I'm willing to give it a shot, but I haven't gotten around to ordering it yet. I figure it'd at least be good for traveling when I didn't or couldn't take along CPAP.

what no pictures? no links to where it can be found?

I did find this one going by the name sonapillow:


I'm trying to figure out HOW it goes about helping with sleep apnea other than keeping you sleeping on your side. I did see this disclaimer:

People with severe sleep apnea do not benefit from using Sona Pillow as a solo therapy

this pillow seems to work by keeping you sleeping on your side, a tennis balls sewn in a shirt have been long known to do the same thing, I would think a 2x4 with some velcro straps around your head could also accomplish the same thing

HERE is an OLD discussion about the Sonapillow:
viewtopic/t9557/Sonapillow.html?sid=a13 ... 61a89fd360

I posted this in the other thread but here's the men's health article

"Finally sleep-apnea sufferers have a remedy besides the effective but annoying CPAP mask. A new FDA-approved pillow can treat sleep apnea, say University of Florida researchers. They tested the specifically angled Sona pillow overnight with 22 sleep-apnea sufferers and found that it eliminated their snoring. What's more, the pillow also led to a 60% drop in the number of times the participants stopped breathing. "That's enough to dramatically reduce the health risks, including high blood pressure," says lead author Najeeb Zuberi, M.D. The pillow tips a person's head up and forward when he's lying on his side. "Sleep apnea is often the result of the jaw fallig backward and closing the airway," says Dr. Zuberi."