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How can I keep myself upright while sleeping?

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I also like to sleep with my head elevated. A few years ago, I invested in an adjustable bed that lets me raise the mattress at the head and/or foot. My mom took a more inexpensive approach. She used a rolled up area rug, put between the box spring and mattress at the head of the bed to raise the mattress. Your mattress would have to be flexible enough to bend. Even a few wedge pillows or a foam roll might help elevate the mattress. You can also buy products called "Under-Mattress Wedges" for this purpose.

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@roch I bought a special mattress that fits on top of my mattress on Amazon. It was about $200 and I sleep with that Plus on pillows and I put a wedge underneath my knees so that I won't have a sore back and when I wake up at night, I make sure I'm still up high. I had to go on two omeprazole a day because I was having reflux episodes 40 mg in the morning and 40 mg at night at 7 PM. I get up at around 4:15 in the morning and start my exercise and my drinking water and then I eat it around 5:30 my first breakfast my second breakfast at 8:30 my lunch shit around 1 o'clock and my last meal at 4:30, which is a very very, very small meal. I try to drink about 10 glasses of water a day mostly because I'm the kind of person that makes stones, but I think it also helps my IBS. I'm almost 7 years past surgery, but I took swallowing lessons because I had aspirational pneumonia in July but that was because I had uncontrollable refluxes in December January, March and June and July and that's when I got on the extra omeprazole so I've only had two tiny little bouts of reflux since July nothing nothing nothing like what I had before when it was 40 minutes of burning throat coat. Tea is very helpful if you wake up with very bad burning at that time I also took Pepto-Bismol and Pepcid I also take three 20 mg of Pepcid a day. I do have trouble burping a lot, which cannot be fixed. Says my Gastro so I take two times at around 10:10 AM. I do have a lot of phlegm. I hope some of this helps you naomi shapiro.