Adult Sleep Positioner Training Belt to Eliminate Sleep-Related Positional Issues Like Snoring, GERD, Pain, and Wrinkles

I have had sleep apnea for a long time. It is the mixed type, and when I sleep on my back, all bets are off, and my AHI numbers are crazy high. I routinely use a Bilevel PAP machine for several years and have always known that to sleep on my back, I routinely go into full apnea for 45+ seconds accented by a beastly gasp of air hunger. Additionally, throughout the night, when on my back, I develop clear cycles of respiratory insufficiency, slowing and shallowing of the respiration patterns, until I stop breathing entirely, and the pattern repeats. The patterns are hypopnea, events, and apnea, and are easily trackable w/ computer programs.This is my story- Yours’s may be different. Sleeping should be a joy, a recharge, and a relaxing process. I do love restful sleeping!!! I sleep well in all positions. You might need positioning for various reasons. Yes, it gets complicated, and change is difficult. Yes, breaking habits may initially be painful. It is indeed a “sleep thing” here, not necessarily a “Sleep Apnea” thing.This sleep position aid is quite nifty, well designed, wears well, and quite simple. Easy and effective to set-up, use as a dependable, responsible training aid. Once adjusted, I pull it over my head, position it, and I fall asleep. A safety pin will stabilize the end spheres, but there is only minimal shifting of the balls. The sleeping unconscious brain does not like sleeping on the positioned balls because they are bluntly uncomfortable. Over time in weeks, I move the band up/down through thorax/abdomen, so as not to get used to the placement of the spheres in the sleeping mode, then, as needed, when sleeping, I roll to another side. Boom/Bam, no problem. Situation corrected.I have empirical data to show the effectiveness of this sleep positioning aid. I have attached a selective C&P of my OSCAR (sleep apnea application) profile for AHIs & total time in apnea/night. It shows: The noted AHI events alone, by using this sleep aid has reduced my signs/symptoms from “severe sleep apnea”, to “BELOW mild sleep apnea” (severe is > 30AHI/hr, mild is >5, <15 AHI/hr).The data captured also has data of snoring periods, and these S/S were also quelled by using iSleepFit. You undiagnosed folks out there with OSA- this really is a solution in many cases, such as mine. For many thousands of dollars, for diagnosis, and the DME, disposable headgear- you think “some organizations” would come up w/ alternate, less expensive solutions to sleep apnea then expensive devices. In my case, I will use both, the iSleepFit, & the BiPAP machine, knowing a lot of sleep apnea/snoring incidence are indeed position related. For all “YOU” out there- this might be all you need for a relaxing and routine night of restful sleeping. You even might get some sincere “thank you’s” from close sleeping bed partners. Go for it!!!!Since I started iSleepFit on 7/28, and my last download was 8/12 (16 days of iSleepFit), I included the graph to include 16 days prior to treatment 7/12. Thus the pic is a “snip” of the 2 graphs, as described above, for this particular time period.The data clearly shows without expanded explanation just how effective this item is.

Did not work for me. I need to sleep on my side to control snoring. Product did not keep me from rolling onto my back - so no help with snoring. Belt tends to shift so does not keep the balls in position.

Very easy to use. I took off the balls except one. I just wish it were possible to put softer balls on it, since with the hard balls on the belt, the punishment for rolling onto one's back is rather harsh.

I have very mild sleep apnea -- never occurs if I sleep on my back so I was looking for a device that would be simpler to use (vs sewing pockets onto pajamas to hold tennis ball). I really wanted it to work and had purchased several items to trial. It is really easy to move the balls along the belt and three is good number. But, the belt material is rather stiff and uncomfortable against bare skin. I then wore it 5 nights cinched comfortably snug at my waist over nightgown/long tee and found that whenever I did my usual shimmy roll to move from one side to other (I have a bed partner hence the shimmy type roll -- not sure how to describe it) but the belt would also shift so that by middle of night balls were shifted onto my side and I was able to freely sleep on my back. I have on my own found one of those really slim runners belts that has pocket for phone to be more comfortable, stays put, easily holds two tennis balls without sewing and easier to wash. Again I really wanted this to work and perhaps it might work and stay put for larger waisted people (I am 5'3", 160#) of for people who have space on mattress to roll without doing that shimmy scouch over thing a lot of us do when we change sides.

I'm a sleep apnea sufferer but I'm on the low end of the scale (literally considered borderline). This means the conventional CPAP machine is not effective as treatment for me (I've tried several different models over the past 15 years since my diagnosis). My sleep doctor mentioned using something like this as an alternative to keep off my back. Mostly I relied on the tennis ball t-shirt method until I recently switched to a soft bed where one ball didn't cut it. I began looking for alternatives and actually made the mistake of buying one of those inflatable backpacks first (I highly recommend you don't). This was the second device I found after unsuccessfully trying a fanny pack stuffed with tennis balls. So far, this design has been great and I think I'm sleeping on my sides mostly, only a little on my stomach. I am in the process of ordering a second in-home test to see if it is working so I'll update this review if it isn't.The only issue(s) I have are that the balls do move a little too easy and the fancy foam mattress (that my wife just had to have) is soft enough that I can roll on to them occasionally. However, given that they sink into the bed a little it isn't the painful situation that other reviewers have described. It is just enough to wake me up to roll over. This circumstance also seems to be happening less as I continue to develop habits of side sleeping by using this device. That all means this device works and does what it claims to do.

Easy to put on, comfortable and keeps me off my back when sleeping (to help reduce snoring).Was a little worried, that the balls would be pretty painful if I rolled on my back - but, in my case they have turned out to be more of a helpful (nudging) deterrent than a truly painful experience. With this on really don't stay on my back long enough to register true pain.Saw some reviews that the balls would come apart and move around, but that has not happened to me at all.Really glad I got this product! ;-)