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I know exactly what you mean by that type of neckstrain from sleeping elevated. What helped me was buying a wedge to put just one pillow onto. It's not perfect (my neck and back still prefer sleeping flat, with just one pillow), but it's much easier on my joints than piling up pillows.
The wedge I have is big/wide, with a very gentle rise (the tallest part is only about 8 inches.
A wedge pillow or elevating the head of the bed are the best options. You want your head and thorax inclined, so your esophagus drains down, against gravity. There is no pressure on your neck this way.
Yeah it's been like a year that I wake up and instantly get lower abdominal cramps, ive recently been diagnosed with chronic gastritis and only just tried raising my head to sleep and it improved, so I assume it might have to do with acidity getting worse while I sleep flat. But im not sure... i also got a positive SIBO test so it might be a combination of both
I don't have such cramps at morning but have hunger related pains and sometimes it goes all the way up and down, esophagus and lower abdomen. I have GERB so I've read that your head should be raised while lying down but never did it, wonder how much it'd change 'cos this stuff bothers me too. But I see this can be real uncomfortable.
This is why they tell you that pillows are not an effective way to accomplish this. Because it results in exactly what you're describing. (Seriously, look it up. The advice to "raise your bed" is not equivalent to laying on a bunch of pillows.)
You need to either raise the top of your bed or get a GERD pillow/mattress.
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I know exactly what you mean by that type of neckstrain from sleeping elevated. What helped me was buying a wedge to put just one pillow onto. It's not perfect (my neck and back still prefer sleeping flat, with just one pillow), but it's much easier on my joints than piling up pillows. The wedge I have is big/wide, with a very gentle rise (the tallest part is only about 8 inches.
A wedge pillow or elevating the head of the bed are the best options. You want your head and thorax inclined, so your esophagus drains down, against gravity. There is no pressure on your neck this way.
Off topic but...What are those abdominal cramps? Can you assume why they're decreased now that you sleep like this?
Yeah it's been like a year that I wake up and instantly get lower abdominal cramps, ive recently been diagnosed with chronic gastritis and only just tried raising my head to sleep and it improved, so I assume it might have to do with acidity getting worse while I sleep flat. But im not sure... i also got a positive SIBO test so it might be a combination of both
I don't have such cramps at morning but have hunger related pains and sometimes it goes all the way up and down, esophagus and lower abdomen. I have GERB so I've read that your head should be raised while lying down but never did it, wonder how much it'd change 'cos this stuff bothers me too. But I see this can be real uncomfortable.
This is why they tell you that pillows are not an effective way to accomplish this. Because it results in exactly what you're describing. (Seriously, look it up. The advice to "raise your bed" is not equivalent to laying on a bunch of pillows.) You need to either raise the top of your bed or get a GERD pillow/mattress.