Positional Apnea - Left vs Right side sleeping

cinco777 wrote: I like the side sleeping bed. However, it only sleeps one. What is one's spouse to do?

Of course it sleeps two! Maybe even more. Think vertically.

feeling_better wrote:rooster, I cant resist to doube check You sure you are not pulling our legs? There is a real bed shaped like this and people have successfully slept on them, and have not broken their backs (falling off) ? Simply amazing !

On second thought, you might be more comfortable with a Safety Mattress.

Raj wrote

One extra confound here could be a change in your hose position from side to side. Is your hose suspended such that after you turn, there is no change in the forces acting on your mask?

Thanks for asking. I concur that hose positioning, if not eliminated as a contributor, could affect the outcome of any CPAP study, including my study of left vs right side sleeping. As I mentioned in a prior post, my hose (std 6' length) is clipped to a cord suspended from a slat in the canopy of a 4-poster King bed - my AutoCPAP and humidifier are located on a nightstand adjacent to the bed. As part of my "bedtime" preparation, I clip the hose to the cord such that it reaches my mask for attachment but does not extend down much farther than my mask. This is true for whichever side I am sleeping on. Since the slats supporting the canopy extend sideways across the bed, all I have to do when I switch sides is to slide the cord along the canopy slat (the one directly above my pillow) and reclip the hose to the cord at the proper height. The mechanics and positioning of the hose to my mask changes very little whether I sleep on my left or right side - there is some horizontal movement of the apex of the hose but not much (maybe a foot or so).

BTW, my wife and I bought our 4-poster w/canopy bed years ago because we liked how it looked. Never did I imagine then that it would become, for me, the "perfect" hose management system when I started CPAP 30 years later.

Feeling_Better wrote

Of course it sleeps two! Maybe even more. Think vertically.

Can't do. My wife doesn't like being on top.