Sleep apnea

[James Marusek 5,244]

This thread does not have to do with weight loss surgery. Well maybe a little bit. I read an curious article this morning about a new pillow. https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/12/07/chasing-added-sleep-using-zeeq-high-tech-pillow-12244 The pillow is called Zeeq. it is a high tech pillow with a built in a motion sensor, a microphone to pick up snoring and a gyroscope. It's "anti-snore control" feature engages" when snoring reaches a preset-level, ZEEQ gently vibrates, "the manufacturer writes," encouraging users to change positions to open constricted airways.

Before my RNY surgery almost 5 years ago, I had sleep apnea. I snored all night long and my wife could not get any sleep. This went on for years. Every now and then I would get a gentle nudge or kick in the middle of the night. About a month after surgery, my sleep apnea went into remission. Sometimes I would wake up in the middle of the night and find my wife hovering over me. I asked her what she was doing. She said I was sleeping so quietly, she though I was dead and was trying to see if I was still breathing.

I think one of the conclusions of the article is valid, that advances in technology will produce "all sorts of sleep-analysis gizmos" in the future. My granddaughter wanted a fitbit for her birthday. So I purchased for her a Fitbit Alta. She really enjoyed it. It tracked her sleep cycles and documented each time she awoke in the night. She would graph them out on her iPod and show me when I visited her.