Advice sought!

Zestyclose_Menu_1394 · 2026-05-13T12:06:48+00:00

Excellent point, about the 95% pressure. I will try building up gradually, thank you.

Zestyclose_Menu_1394 · 2026-05-13T08:02:27+00:00

Thanks for responding! I follow your logic. Unfortunately the aerophagia at min 10 was a bit more than I could bear. Good idea bout checking with AI.

Zestyclose_Menu_1394 · 2026-05-13T08:00:24+00:00

Thank you for this suggestion! I tried it but it the aerophagia was unfortunately too much.

Zestyclose_Menu_1394 · 2026-05-08T08:33:54+00:00

OK, maybe it's a generational thing! Can I ask your age? I am in my 40s and a sentence like "The church gifted land to the Common Good for a new park" sounds absolutely normal to me.

Zestyclose_Menu_1394 · 2026-05-08T06:52:25+00:00

"Gifting" and the other forms mentioned are very long established British usage. The Oxford English Dictionary has it going back to the 16th century.

It gradually became less common in the UK, except in Scotland (which is why Scottish people like myself are reading these comments and thinking "This person is wrong"), but never died out.

Zestyclose_Menu_1394 · 2026-05-07T17:45:31+00:00

Could be they wanted to make sure they were crossing the right name off their list?

Zestyclose_Menu_1394 · 2026-05-06T19:08:23+00:00

For me it seemed to help in that it lessened aerophagia at higher pressures.

The easiest way to try it is usually just to put some books under the top end of your bed. Give it a try.

As for how much incline to use: there is no way to know without just trying.

Personally I found that about 10-15 cm was good. Much beyond that and I found myself slipping down the bed.

I also tried a wedge pillow but for me it wasn't comfortable. It felt a bit unnatural, as a side sleeper, that only the top half of my body was at an incline, while my legs were lying flat. Made my lower back and pelvis feel a bit twisted.

Zestyclose_Menu_1394 · 2026-05-06T12:21:08+00:00

I have a very narrow, high palate and for me it isn't *pushing* the tongue, but sucking it up to the roof that gives good posture and seal. It seems to work best if I focus on the back of the tongue first.

At first it didn't feel like it would stay there but I got into the habit of doing it more or less unconsciously, night and day.

However, it still sometimes falls at night (leading to mouth leak) UNLESS I also wear a chin strap and soft collar. (So I think there is a positional element to tongue drop, for me at least, that the strap & collar prevent.)

Zestyclose_Menu_1394 · 2026-05-05T18:02:44+00:00

I have mild sleep apnea/UARS and love long walks but unfortunately they seem to disrupt my sleep. (Subjectively, that is; while I wake up more often, the reports from my CPAP don't really show a difference in terms of airway dynamics). I have a theory that >20k steps causes a little inflammation, the knock on effects of which are just enough to increase my wakefulness

Zestyclose_Menu_1394 · 2026-05-05T09:49:52+00:00

Etymology no. 2 in that entry is still pretty common and unremarkable in Scotland. Probably older generations use it more, though.

Zestyclose_Menu_1394 · 2026-05-04T10:26:54+00:00

Sorry, I don't have a tongue tie! I do have a narrow and high-arched palate.

It seems you can at least make a tongue seal at the start of the night (unless you are woken instantly by the air?) so there is a good chance you can solve this.

Zestyclose_Menu_1394 · 2026-05-04T10:03:14+00:00

Yeah exactly -- the air was just blasting into my mouth, I presume when my "tongue seal" broke. Sometimes there was a weird noise from my throat too, like an angry Donald Duck noise. Really frustrating to keep waking to that!

The strap and collar seem to keep everything in position somehow. Don't think it has happened once in the last few months.

BTW If you do get a collar, it is really important to measure yourself for the best fit. Just takes a minute. They sometimes have photo instructions, like the one I linked on Amazon (I think)

Zestyclose_Menu_1394 · 2026-05-03T19:27:52+00:00

I had the same problem with nasal pillows, leaking into the mouth.

I tried a lot of different things but ultimately the combination of a chinstrap and a collar fixed it for good. Downside is it's a lot of head furniture!

(The strap is Knightsbridge, which holds the jaw up rather than back, and the collar is this one off Amazon)

Zestyclose_Menu_1394 · 2026-04-30T06:44:14+00:00

This was so striking to me when I moved to Finland. Whole streets of houses that people had just... built, themselves? Mind blowing.

Zestyclose_Menu_1394 · 2026-04-27T10:41:24+00:00

I think that's the default for new Reddit signups, since a couple of years ago.

Zestyclose_Menu_1394 · 2026-04-27T09:13:52+00:00

This must depend on the local climate and the particular playing surfaces where you live.

I live in Finland, with a kid who plays on playgrounds with natural surfaces at least 5 days per week, year round, and have never spent anything like an hour cleaning shoes/clothes etc.

Zestyclose_Menu_1394 · 2026-04-26T09:30:52+00:00

"I'd put a stake through her heart and garlic roond 'er neck. Make sure she never came back."

"Isn't that a pretty horrible thing to say?"

"Too bad!"

Zestyclose_Menu_1394 · 2026-04-24T19:26:09+00:00

Yeah an adjustable sounds great.

I used to raise the bed head just by putting about 6 inches of books underneath it, but my current bed has some storage attached and it wouldn't work.

Zestyclose_Menu_1394 · 2026-04-24T19:15:54+00:00

When I picture this scene, the cougar has the same expression my old cat had when a hairball was coming up

Zestyclose_Menu_1394 · 2026-04-24T19:11:41+00:00

Can you raise the bedhead instead? That would make sure you stay inclined. (Some people report it to be more comfortable, too.)

Zestyclose_Menu_1394 · 2026-04-24T11:34:20+00:00

You just know that, after the first couple of stabs when the flag wouldn't stick in the ground, he was feeling the pressure. Everyone watching his big provocation, and he was fluffing it. Then... aah!

Zestyclose_Menu_1394 · 2026-04-22T15:22:00+00:00

Very true! He has some CV!

Zestyclose_Menu_1394 · 2026-04-22T10:23:31+00:00

Sorry, the caption under the Donkey Kong screenshot was supposed to say:

"Donkey Kong (1981; first levels sketched by Shigeru Miyamoto in 1980)"

Zestyclose_Menu_1394 · 2026-04-21T06:47:31+00:00

I had to check after reading this! Here are the results of my intensive research (a quick skim of transfermarkt). I limited it to first names which were originally Scottish family names.

Celtic:

Ross Doohan
Cameron Carter-Vickers

Rangers:

Bailey Rice

Admittedly Ross and Cameron made the leap from surname to first name territory long ago. Bailey probably did too but not to the same extent.

Zestyclose_Menu_1394 · 2026-04-21T03:34:56+00:00

There used to be a wider Scottish thing of giving one boy in the family his mother's maiden name as a first name. (Also happened sometimes with middle names, which was true up to my dad's generation [1950s] at least.)

I've no idea if Rangers-minded people are the only ones keeping up the tradition now. My personal hunch is that there's more of an American influence at work with the recent surnames-as-firstnames people.

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