Trying to find the best wedge pillow for snoring. I’m sure this will just end with me getting a cpap machine but I would prefer to put that off for a little bit.
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Haha before I finished reading I was totally gonna say “the best one is a CPAP machine”. I’ve been in sleep medicine for 18 years and I can tell ya it’s coming for all of us man… inevitable for the vast majority of people.
i got a wedge pillow from temu, it smelled. i used it for one night, and it worked. i slept on my back like i could never do before. but the second night i couldn't get comfy.
I’ve been using KT tape to tape my mouth shut before going to bed. Surprisingly effective for stopping snoring, provided my allergies aren’t acting up.
agree not everyone needs a cpap but mine genuinely changed my life after trying every other snoring fix in the book. Keep an open mindset and, if you get prescribed one, do your best to get a resmed airsense 11.
Have you investigated a buckwheat pillow? It's an acquired taste and admittedly not a wedge, but helped with my snoring and uncomfortably warm pillow issues.
I waited too long and went for months with sleep so bad that I had to fight to stay awake driving my son TO school, because getting a cpap machine took me 5 months. Just keep in mind you can't get one immediately
I got a wedge like a year before i got a cpap machine, and the only thing it did was make it so i need a wedge to sleep. Just bite the bullet and get the cpap. It's so much easier than trying to bring a wedge everywhere with you when traveling
Yeah, you do need a script for one without paying out the nose, and that sucks. I know there have been some cpap recalls, but the wedge really did nothing to help me. If anything, it just delayed me from getting actual treatment. It could help with snoring
But if you need a cpap, snoring isn't the real issue you are facing. It may be more of a hassle in the short term, but i feel it's a "too cheap to buy the good stuff, so you spend 3 times as much on something thats shit" situation there
The Philips one had foam gaskets that degraded and shot into your lungs. Resmed is silicone you can replace the impeller motor. Maybe you can start hacking the open source Sleepy Head software.
Yeah no yeah I had one that straight up would shut off in the middle of the night and I’d wake up not able to breathe til I took the mask off. Felt so vindicated when they issued the recall as before that there was a bit of “are you sure you’re not using it wrong?”
Look I’m gonna go to an ENT either way to get a mouth guard or something but I refuse to believe everyone needs a CPAP machine that’s some shit a doctor has to tell you.
Don't ever get a cpap machine without a doctor scaring you into it lmao. My cpap saved my life but it's such a fucking chore to use and bring along everywhere. The Philips recall also sucked ass for everyone (not enough competition to cover replacement units combined with the supply chain crisis).
I refuse to accept anything that doesn't involve you falling down a rabbit hole of bespoke foam subreddits and pages of forum debates over specific sleep angle and ultimately turning it into an article.
We decided to rehab our decade old sofa by ordering foam online cut to measure and it was absolutely a nerve-wracking experience BUT it was like $1,000 cheaper than getting a new sofa and my spine and knees are so much more grateful.
I know at least two different people that were prescribed CPAP machines this year after having strokes. Please consider just getting a sleep study man, it could save your life.
I snore and they told me no cpap because the snoring wasn’t causing sleep apnea. Also if they do say cpap for you, I read that with an aussie connection you can get the best ones for a helluva lot cheap and no prescription.
I saw a dentist that specializes in sleep issues and he set me up with what is basically a very fancy night guard. Has done wonders for my snoring. More expensive than a pillow, though.
My issue’s not snoring (GERD, POTS), but I’ve never found a wedge pillow I can tolerate, I’ve used bed risers to raise the whole head of the bed for decades.
Very curious about that, the only ones I’ve looked into were the really proprietary ones that had alternate sides but I didn’t want to risk disturbing my partner’s sleep
Ah yeah, I just use cheap blocks (currently https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C274T5B6, I have 6” ones at the head of my bed and 4” in the middle, but I’ve literally used cinder blocks or wood in the past), but that’s def a trickier problem if you’re sharing the bed with someone who doesn’t want a slant
I have not! I’ve only seen ones that only take up half the mattress length, and at least for GERD it’s bad to position things so your stomach has a crease instead of it being an even incline the whole way down
Also a cranky side sleeper. What works for me is a regular memory rectangle pillow (generic amazon iirc) but with a regular organic pillow layered on top but a few inches off center. Basically my own customizable wedge that I can move around and reset to the exact right pitch.
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moral of the story... ?
or more specifically my wife wants me to know
But there are so many kinds of foam... my god.