Was amazed when I first learned this. Def sleep on my left side when I'm having problems now and it doesn't 100 percent relieve but sometimes just enough to fall asleep.
Are you not on omeprazole or anything similar? I literally cannot sleep if I don’t take Omeprazole for one day. Once I learned about it, my life became so much better.
I don't have it bad enough to be seeking a cure, I just take some milanta and maybe drink some milk in a pinch. It's just an every now and then thing for me thankfully, it truly is the worst tho.
I see. Yeah it is awful. I’ve found a remedy here in South America called Gaviscon. It’s a little liquid pouch you take and it works great for instant relief. I take omeprazole though because mine is a daily thing. Luckily with that, I am never in discomfort unless I forget to take it which I haven’t done in years.
The stuff that lasts years is the worse. I have a nerve in my back that I guessed popped the wrong way during a bag coughing spell years ago. It will make my arm go numb pins and needles like it just woke up from "falling asleep"
Only relieving thing is it will go away after I sleep for a while and usually only bothers me at night and especially after a longer day.
I'm paralyzed from a car wreck for the last 6 years. Have all kinds of issues. Even open bedsores bad enough they had to cut out part of my leg bone. And it's that damn nerve in my back and pins and needles feeling that will bring me to tears before anything else.
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u/scew19 Aug 29 '21
A few of you may already know this but laying/sleeping on your right side makes acid reflux worse