CPAP Pillow

Hello all. My name is Brian. My father has recently found out he has Sleep Apnea. I want to buy him a special Sleep Apnea pillow but I was wondering if this is something people use? A pillow is a pretty important thing for sleep. I don't want to disturb his sleep. Would anyone here use a special Sleep Apnea pillow?

To accommodate different sleep positions, various styles of "sleep apnea" specific pillows have been designed. When I started therapy with a full face mask, the mask would get bumped if I slept on my side as I had for many years. I started sleeping flat on my back. I have some old football related back problems and found this caused INTENSE pain after only an hour or two and found it could be relieved by propping up just bit with a wedge shaped tv pillow and my regular pillow over it. I am only up about 10"... no more pain.

What I am trying to say is, since there are different style masks intended to allow sleeping in different positions, get the one that seems most suited to your father's favorite sleep position. My current DME had a number of styles and I think it would be great to adapt a pillow to your father's sleep favored sleep position rather than do like I did and adapt my sleep position to a mask. Talk with the DME or read the write up carefully to see which sleep position the specific pillow adapts for.

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I picked up one of the Buckwheat pillows, this was a little odd at first. It seems though that within my first week of using it, It has become my go to pillow that I now take with me wherever I go! it is a slightly heavier pillow but will conform to many positions and stays in that shape until I settle it into a new shape. The one I got comes with extra filling and has some added foam to the buckwheat so was very customizable. They are available on Amazon.

Hi, Tenaciousbt -- I have tried all kinds of pillows, from expensive down, to down-and-feather combos, to polyfiberfill of different densities, to a special CPAP pillow with side cutouts, etc (which was miserable for me). I settled happily on a foam rubber pillow, medium-soft, that is thick/high enough to support my head with my spine pretty straight, and since I sleep with a full-face mask and have to sleep on my side, I just sleep with my face toward the edge of the pillow. My head's weight is fully supported, and the curve-off of the end of the pillow causes little pressure on the mask, and I sleep much, much better. I have heard some people love buckwheat-hull, as a poster says above, or even flax-seed pillows, and some make their own pillows, but a regular foam-rubber one works so well for me I actually travel with my own pillow now. I would start with assessing how the person sleeps and what their doctor recommends about positional changes, and then experiment from there.

I purchased a CPAP pillow and have been using it for a week. I have been on CPAP for less than a month , and the pillow did the trick for me ! I am a side sleeper , and my mask was irrating my nose to the point that I developed a bump on my nose , I wear the full mask because it helps stop me from mouth breathing. I did switch styles a bit more flexible around the face , that helped , but the pillow did the trick ! I highly reccomend it.