I recently had a customer who told me that he puts wood blocks under the headboard legs of his bedframe to create an angle which helps him to breathe better while sleeping. He came into The Natural Mattress Store to try out a Leggett & Platt adjustable bed to see if that might eliminate the need for the blocks. As a side sleeper he found that the angle he needs wasn’t comfortable with only the head end tilted.
I discussed this with the owner of Dapwood bed frames, which is one of the brands of solid wood platform beds that we display in our stores. He has designed an option which is now available in his Dream Catcher series that offers your choice of either a 3 degree or 6 degree tilt. He built a prototype that he is sleeping on that he says got rid of 43 years of snoring.
That got my attention because my wife claimed that I snore in my sleep. Of course, I can’t hear it, so I have to take her word for it. However, I also had been experiencing something odd over the past year or so. When I sleep on my side, one of my nostrils closes and I wind up breathing through my mouth which results in a dry mouth. Then I have to wake up to drink water a couple times a night.
Before I heard about sleeping on an angle, I had brought home a pair of split queen adjustable bases which I love for reading or watching TV in bed. My research brought me to http://inclinedbedtherapy.com/ That website also talks about the digestive benefits of angling your mattress as well as relief from sleep apnea.
At that point, I wondered about how I could achieve the benefits of both the variable tilt angles from my Prodigy 2.0 adjustables and the whole bed angle recommended by IBT. I am happy to say that there is a way to have your cake and eat it too. The Prodigy comes with legs that are adjustable from six to ten inches. I simply set the head end legs at the maximum height and lowered the foot end legs to their minimum height and achieved exactly what I wanted. Best of all, both my dry mouth/nostril issue and my alleged snoring disappeared. Wow!
