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(Message started by: stuey on Aug 5^th, 2004, 5:05pm)

Title: Does Sitting UP While Sleeping Actually Help?
Post by stuey on Aug 5^th, 2004, 5:05pm

Iv'e read in the past people have done this. Is it more out of anxiety or panic or has it actually warded off any attacks or made them any less severe. I also have something called autosomal nocturnal epilepsy and It only happens when I'm asleep but I'm aware that I'm seizing and just can't do nothing about it til it's over and for some reason I just sorta have this comforting feeling if I'm just sitting up I won't seize. Don't really help though. Brains gonna do what the brains gonna do. Just wondering if sleeping on a recliner as opposed to flat on a bed helps at all with anyone's CHs. I never knew I could move so quickly when I first started being woken up with them.

Title: Re: Does Sitting UP While Sleeping Actually Help?
Post by Superpain on Aug 5^th, 2004, 5:08pm

It helps some...
But if I'm gonna get hit, I get hit.

Title: Re: Does Sitting UP While Sleeping Actually Help?
Post by thomas on Aug 5^th, 2004, 5:12pm

It helps a few folks, can't see where it would hurt you.

Title: Re: Does Sitting UP While Sleeping Actually Help?
Post by Carl_D on Aug 5^th, 2004, 5:12pm

Still get hit sitting up.
Was on a roadtrip with a friend a few years ago. I was in the passenger seat and fell asleep, he said I was out about an hour. I woke up to the beast drilling my head, and it was a long hour on the way to Chi-Town.

Peace,
Carl D

Title: Re: Does Sitting UP While Sleeping Actually Help?
Post by UN_SOLVED on Aug 5^th, 2004, 5:35pm

Doesn't help me any

Unsolved

Title: Re: Does Sitting UP While Sleeping Actually Help?
Post by Tim_Z on Aug 5^th, 2004, 5:54pm

I sleep a lot in my recliner during a cycle just because that's where I land up when I'm "winding down" and just fall asleep.

I don't think it helps much though.

Tim

Title: Re: Does Sitting UP While Sleeping Actually Help?
Post by psycofemale0403 on Aug 5^th, 2004, 5:58pm

If I fall asleep laying on my back, I'll get hit ten times harder than if I fall asleep laying on my side or sitting up. (Usualy, not all the time)

~ Lisa

Title: Re: Does Sitting UP While Sleeping Actually Help?
Post by Ree on Aug 5^th, 2004, 6:11pm

dont know but that is exactly how Dave sleeps during a cycle............... how weird you guys are all from the same planet me thinks...........love ree

Title: Re: Does Sitting UP While Sleeping Actually Help?
Post by IndianaJohn on Aug 5^th, 2004, 6:42pm

Never has made a difference for me, but hey, everybody's different. Could be worth a try.

Title: Re: Does Sitting UP While Sleeping Actually Help?
Post by Opus on Aug 5^th, 2004, 8:36pm

It used to help me sleeping propped up in bed, but those days are gone and sleeping sitting up is all that works now. Even a recliner is too reclined. Laying down flat will usually give me a shadow anytime. Sleeping laying flat is a guaranteed hit.

Opus/Paul AS

Title: Re: Does Sitting UP While Sleeping Actually Help?
Post by brain_cramps on Aug 5^th, 2004, 8:41pm

on 08/05/04 at 20:36:40, Opus wrote:

...Sleeping laying flat is a guaranteed hit...

Me too! My recliner is my home-away-from-home.

grant

Title: Re: Does Sitting UP While Sleeping Actually Help?
Post by floridian on Aug 5^th, 2004, 8:54pm

Laying flat can make apnea worse and could make hits more frequent or intense for some. Sleeping on a recliner might help in that case. I can remember one cycle started while I was watching tv in a recliner - but that was after pulling an all-nighter. I also remember one headache I had while sitting up as a passenger in a car.

Title: Re: Does Sitting UP While Sleeping Actually Help?
Post by ShariRae on Aug 5^th, 2004, 9:14pm

When I am in cycle, I sleep sitting up at the end of the couch, sorta wedged in the corner..seems to help...
Shari

Title: Re: Does Sitting UP While Sleeping Actually Help?
Post by Rock_Lobster on Aug 5^th, 2004, 9:59pm

I helps me... sleep.
A sweet recliner has been my bed for 3+ years. Started using it to ditch the snoring.
Still get CH's in it though. Just as many as before.

I honestly cannot sleep in a flat bed now. Agony. My back calls me a dumbass.

And even though my snoring ass sleeps in another room to keep my family sane, I still get laid. [smiley=thumb.gif]

Title: Re: Does Sitting UP While Sleeping Actually Help?
Post by TxBasslady on Aug 5^th, 2004, 11:19pm

It helps me, whether it's mental or factual, I'm not sure.

I have to sleep on 3 pillows when I sleep in the bed. Just something about lying flat......

Kinda strange how we all have the same affliction, but treat it so differently.

PF vibes,

Jean

Title: Re: Does Sitting UP While Sleeping Actually Help?
Post by Gator on Aug 5^th, 2004, 11:53pm

I sleep better sitting up than lying down flat, but it could be because of the apnea thing like floridian mentioned. I go in for a sleep study on the 20th to see if apnea could be a factor for me. I still get hit sleeping sitting up, though.

Gator

Title: Re: Does Sitting UP While Sleeping Actually Help?
Post by Charlie on Aug 6^th, 2004, 1:12am

Worked for me. Most of the time I would have one less attack per night if I slept in the recliner.

Charlie

Title: Re: Does Sitting UP While Sleeping Actually Help?
Post by BobG on Aug 6^th, 2004, 5:01am

I've spent many nights in the La-Z-Boy. For me, lying flat during a cycle was an invitation for attack. The attacks still came but it seemed they were fewer and I woke at a kip 3 instead of an 8 and could start the ice pack sooner.

Title: Re: Does Sitting UP While Sleeping Actually Help?
Post by BarbaraD on Aug 6^th, 2004, 8:07am

I wore out a recliner sleeping in it so I got my doc to write a script for one of those beds that sit up for ya - that way you can pick your angle (I usually do a little over 45 degrees). It also has a viberator in it and when I'm shadowing at bedtime, I just turn that thing on and lay my head (ch side down) on the mattress and let the vibes hit the beast. that and Melatonin have worked pretty good - most of the time.

I usually can get 4-5 hours sleep before I have to get the heck up and walk.

But I cannot lay flat and NOT on my back at all.

Nuther thing -- when you do lay down, do you sleep on the CH side or the other one. If I sleep on the CH side - it's a sure fire way to bring on the beast. Even when I go to sleep on that side (with the viberator on), I turn over to the other side - protective instinct I guess.

Title: Re: Does Sitting UP While Sleeping Actually Help?
Post by Luke63 on Aug 6^th, 2004, 10:22am

Never helped me......wish it did.

Title: Re: Does Sitting UP While Sleeping Actually Help?
Post by ClusterChuck on Aug 6^th, 2004, 11:17am

My theory on this is (it may be way out in left field) that by sleeping in the recliner, or as I do, laying on the floor, you do not sleep as soundly, and maybe do not get to the REM stage of sleep so soon, or at all, so you get fewer hits.

But yes, it does help me get some sleep.

Chuck